302 Knife Cleaner
Xu Wen made a long phone call, and after putting it down, he said to Lu Yuan: "There is still some time, you can wait with me." ”
"Oh. Lu Yuan listened to him calling, but he still didn't understand what he was going to do, so he answered a little confusedly.
Xu Wen is now a person who can't be idle. Now that the red sandalwood board is already available, the repair of the Baizi stepping bed can also be continued.
Lu Yuan thought about it and went over to help him.
He didn't get started, just helped Xu Wen hand over the tools and set up the materials, but the tacit understanding between the two was amazing, often Xu Wen stretched out his hand, and the tools he wanted were handed to him;
Everything is handy, comfortable and smooth.
This feeling reminded Xu Wen of the Banmen brothers—in that world, they often helped him like this.
But at that time, they had been studying together for more than a year, and they were very familiar with their respective work habits.
And now, he and Lu Yuanman have been fully calculated, and they have known each other for less than two days.
On the one hand, this is because Lu Yuan's work habits are both ancient and modern, which is somewhat similar to Xu Wen's, and on the other hand, it seems that this class does have an inseparable relationship with the Lian Tianqing lineage of the old wood farm......
The pre-work of the repair of the stepping bed has been completed, the existing old parts have all been cleaned and decontaminated, arranged neatly, and the drawings of the missing parts have also been simulated and drawn, and they are presented on the drawings in full proportion.
When Lu Yuan saw the new drawings he had drawn, he was very surprised and asked, "Have the original drawings of this bed been preserved?"
"No, it's all new. Xu Wen was engrossed in his work and replied nonchalantly.
Lu Yuan's expression was obviously shocked.
He is also an expert, and of course knows where the main difficulties of this restoration lie.
Personal operation skills are one thing, and what is more difficult is to supplement and restore the missing parts.
What is missing is what is not there, how can we create something out of nothing? We must fully understand what we already have, and build on this foundation.
This step is really a dance with shackles, not only to dance well and dance wonderfully to bring out the essence, but also not to get rid of the original restrictions, otherwise it will lose coordination and look very discordant.
For a wood carving, the more delicate it is, the more difficult it is to repair, because the form is easy to imitate, and the temperament is difficult to copy.
This Baizi stepping bed is a rare masterpiece, the movements and demeanor of each child on it are different, but each one is vivid and vivid, as if it were true.
Such a work is very difficult to complete.
And the figure that Xu Wen has now completed on paper is the best completion that Lu Yuan can imagine, and he counted it slightly, twelve of which were completed and eight were completely redrawn.
But no matter which one it is, Lu Yuan can't see any difference from the original graphics, as if they were originally like this.
This level is really extraordinary......
What Lu Yuan brought was a piece of boss, that is, the one that had been stored for a long time.
Rosewood is already very hard, and after being stored for so long, the texture is more fine, and it is not easy to leave marks on the knife, and it is certainly not easy to deal with it.
There is more than one part of the broken rosewood bed that needs to be repaired, so Xu Wen estimated it and divided the board into corresponding large and small pieces.
Lu Yuan noticed that Xu Wen was very decisive when he started, and it seemed that it was not the first time he had done anything with such a precious material.
This teacher's inheritance is really unusual......
After dividing it, Xu Wen will carve the wooden blocks into shape and fill them in their rightful places.
This rosewood bed uses "splitting carving" and "knife cleaning", which are the top and most difficult crafts in wood carving.
It refers to the use of knives in the process of engraving and polishing, one knife carving and polishing is completed, without the assistance of other tools, and finally without sandpaper or other abrasive tools.
In this way, the final carved product is smooth at a rough look, but if you look closely, you will find that the surface is actually composed of very small planes, and it feels slightly frosted to the touch. From the overall shape, it will be more textured, the charm will be more fluid, and the most important thing is that it can withstand the polishing of time, the more oxidized, the better the texture will be.
These two processes were not originally used exclusively on red sandalwood, but the knife worker cooperated with red sandalwood to present the best effect. This rosewood bed also adopts this treatment, which is one of the reasons why the carved children on the bed look particularly vivid.
Knife cleaning is very difficult, and the requirements for carpenters are very high, and the slightest mistake can ruin the whole work.
Lu Yuan had learned, but so far, he only dared to practice on slightly cheaper hardwoods such as boxwood, and had never done anything to red sandalwood.
But Xu Wen didn't hesitate at this time, the first thing he had to complete was a relatively small defect at the railing, about the size of three fingers. He looked at the drawings for a while, picked up the red sandalwood and began to beat the embryo, and began to split the carving after the carving, and began to polish it with a cleaning knife after the carving.
The whole process was amazingly smooth, Lu Yuan was dazzled, and before he could even react, he completed it all.
"You ......" Lu Yuan was shocked and opened his mouth to speak.
"What?" Xu Wen asked casually without raising his head, picking up another piece of wood, looking at the next figure on the drawing.
"No ......" Lu Yuan closed his mouth and continued to watch him work intently.
The knife cleaner may seem very simple, but it is actually one of the longest polishing techniques.
It is difficult, risky, and time-consuming, so many carpenters have now abandoned this technique and switched to ordinary sandpaper polishing for polishing.
But now in Xu Wen, there is no problem with this process at all, as if everything is as simple as eating and drinking.
Next, Xu asked to do it, and Lu Yuan watched.
In the small patio, the light is filtered by the old plastic sheeting, turning a lustrous white.
No one spoke, only the breathing of two people could be heard, and the sound of tools touching the wood.
But what fills this place even more strongly than this is the complete indulgence and enthusiasm of the two people.
At this moment, there was nothing else in this world except this red sandalwood bed, red sandalwood, and the materials in Xu Wen's hand.
I don't know how long I have been working like this, but Lu Yuan can see with the naked eye that there are more and more newly carved parts, which are labeled with small labels and neatly arranged to the side.
These are all repaired parts, which have not yet been put together with the original, and whether the repair is successful or not will have to wait for the final assembly process.
But seeing now, Lu Yuan has no doubt that this repair has actually been successful.
The more he looked at it, the more energetic he became, and he couldn't wait to see the final result, but Xu Wen's phone rang at this time.
Xu asked for a moment, picked up the phone, and said a few words to the other side.
The other side didn't know what to say, he nodded, put down the tools in his hand when he put away the phone, and said to Lu Yuan: "They are ready, let's go." ”
"Where are you going, can't you finish this and go again?" Lu Yuan asked impatiently.
"Your parcel. Xu Wen blocked all the words he disliked in four words.
At the same time, in the Banmen sect, several people were standing at the door of the ancestral hall, and an old man said categorically: "I don't agree!"