Chapter 112 Wood Carving

At three o'clock in the morning, it was dark outside, but the lights were still on as usual in Xiang Kun's bedroom.

Under a table lamp, Xiang Kun is holding a fine sandpaper and slowly but carefully sanding a wood carving more than 20 centimeters high.

It was a female humanoid wood carving, wearing a two-dimensional style skirt armor, holding a two-handed sword, staring ahead, and a curled dumb hair on her head, judging from the overall image, it should be an anime character.

This is a character wood carving carved by Xiang Kun himself from beginning to end.

Today is October 3rd, and tomorrow, October 4th, is Tang Baona's birthday, and this wood carving is Xiang Kun's birthday gift.

On September 13, after accepting the "misunderstanding birthday gift" compound bow from Tang Baona and several others, Xiang Kun began to think about how to return the gift.

Then he got the birthday time of the three of them through some of their online information, as well as the driver's license and other document information that he had seen by chance before.

Yang Zhener on January 3, and Xia Libing is in April, both of which are still very early. Only Tang Baona's birthday on October 4 is not long before it arrives.

His original idea was to give a gift with a budget of about two or three thousand, so based on his usual observations and the information left on the Internet by Tang Baona's various online accounts, he analyzed it and speculated that she might like the gift.

In the end, the final options were: 1) figurines or other anime merchandise that Tang Bona liked, 2) audio recording equipment, 3) some design trinkets or knick-knacks, and 4) music-related merchandise or her favorite out-of-print album.

But the problem is, judging from Xiang Kun's understanding, although Tang Baona is not the kind of person who spends money lavishly, she has never been short of money, and the options of 1, 2, and 4, if she likes them, have basically bought them a long time ago, and the ones she chose by herself must be more favorite.

From this point of view, it seems that only buying a trinket that looks more compatible with her usual dressing style, or a small knick-knack with a more sense of design, is a safer option.

He also asked Yang Zhen'er and Xia Libing privately, and the former said that it would be okay if he had a heart, it didn't matter what he sent, Nana didn't lack anything, and it would be good to cook a big meal when the time came.

And Xia Libing replied similarly to the last time she investigated the taste: "It's okay, she doesn't pick." ”

Indeed, Xiang Kun knew that no matter what she sent, Tang Baona should not mind, that is, she gave a figure or peripheral product that she actually already had or didn't like so much, and she should gladly accept it.

However, thinking of his feelings when he received the compound bow as a gift before, this "casual" always made him a little uncomfortable. He is well aware that the value of a gift is not only the price in the market, but also depends on how much the recipient likes the gift.

So after thinking about it for a while, Xiang Kun prepared to make a wood carving of Saber Artoria, Tang Baona's favorite anime character used to make an avatar.

And the process of making this is also the process of several experiments that he has tried and tested, which is the best of both worlds.

Of course, in order to avoid that he didn't make the wood carving on October 4th, he also prepared an alternative Plan B, and if it didn't work, he gave a Swarovski crystal ornament that he thought Tang Bona would like as a gift.

Xiang Kun has a certain art foundation, and it is not much of a problem to draw a bottle, draw a sketch of a personal face, or something, but this does not mean that he knows how to carve.

But it was precisely for this reason that he wanted to try to see if it could help him master the ability to use tools more quickly by establishing a supersensory connection with the tool.

So before drinking blood on September 16, he bought five carving knives of different shapes and three chisels and made associations.

In order to successfully associate them, he specially disassembled the bodies and handles of these tools, and then put them back together after the association. And he also found that after the same type and function of the same item is associated, the association time of the other items will be reduced a lot.

After waking up on the night of September 17, Xiang Kun first quickly watched various tutorials and videos for more than ten hours, and then found a 3D drawing of Saber's character as a reference, and began to carve and chisel several pieces of practice wood that had been prepared before and opened into a general shape.

Although the chisel and carving knife that made the connection were indeed almost expertly controlled, he was able to apply what he learned in the tutorials and videos steadily, and he could move his hands as he pleased.

But the first four pieces of wood were still chiseled before they entered the billet, not to mention the dull hair on the top of the head and the two-handed sword with the pestle on the base, it was difficult to make a good arm alone, and it was crooked or broken if you were not careful.

The fifth wood, Xiang Kun in line with the purpose of first producing a finished product to see the shortcomings, achieved a semi-finished product of the fine billet, but looking at the wood carving with a crooked face and an evil disproportion, he couldn't help but think of the "evil god saber" he saw on the Internet when he was looking for a reference map before......

Judging from the experimental results, after simply contacting the tool, we can only achieve the control and mastery of the tool, but when it comes to some other application variables, we still need to adapt and practice to exert the due ability.

It can also be inferred that if he can fully connect with all the parts of a car in the future, then he may know the condition of the car very well, and he will be able to drive it like an arm. However, if you go racing against others, you still need to know the specific road conditions, the course of the track, the situation of the opponents, the weather conditions at the time of the race, and other information before you can fully exert your driving strength.

Now, although he is very skilled in chiseling and manipulating, he still has problems with the familiarity of the material of the wood and the grasp of the carving and chiseling of the outline.

Xiang Kun knew that if he practiced a lot, he would not be able to improve in a long way if he was able to skillfully operate a few chisels and carving knives, and he would start with a work with a simple and easy structure.

But his goal was not to become a master woodcarver, so he stopped making woodcarving for the time being, after all, he had to do a lot of things every blood-drinking period, not only learning to carve and prepare gifts.

Before drinking blood on September 22, Xiang Kun spent an hour establishing contact with two pieces of boxwood that had been bought and had been simply cooked.

Before he began to make contacts, he took a small sample of the two pieces of wood, softened, sliced, dyed, mounted, and looked under a microscope to understand the structure of the two pieces of wood.

He has experimented with tissues, A4 paper, and other things, and in addition to knowing the weight, size, composition, and other information can improve the speed of making contacts, observing the onlooker structure of the target can also greatly improve the speed and success rate.

Xiang Kun planned that if the boxwood that had established a connection between these two pieces was messed up again, he could only use PlanB to send the crystal ornaments he bought, otherwise if he continued to study deeply, he would really become a carver......

Fortunately, when he woke up on September 23, after spending more than ten hours making a piece of wood, the second piece of wood finally basically met his expectations, and he was perfected step by step to the finished product.

The carving knife with which he has established a supersensory connection operates on the wood that has established a supersensory connection, and it is indeed more comfortable and stable, just like the communication between two old friends, "cooperative" skillfully.

In fact, on September 27, he had already finished the finished wood carving.

And today, he just took it out again, checked it again, did some fine polishing and then oiled it, so that the whole wood carving was in the best condition.

Although from his slightly obsessive-compulsive point of view, this wood carving still has a lot to improve, and there are still many flaws, but as the first work, it can basically be regarded as qualified.

Before he knew it, it was already dawn, Xiang Kun picked up the mobile phone full of bumps and cracked screens, and saw him and Tang Baona in the crowd of four, Tang Baona said that she was already at the airport, and she would be able to arrive in the city at 10 o'clock this evening.

Xiang Kun actually planned to invite Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er to have a meal in advance tonight, cook a few newly developed dishes by himself, and then give her gifts by the way. However, Tang Baona's family went abroad to attend a relative's wedding in the past few days, and she can only come back tonight, so she can only find another opportunity for her tomorrow.