How many tools do you need to do a job?

There are as few as a dozen pieces, as many as dozens, and in most cases, a burden or a flat shoulder is packed.

When he was in Xiaoheng Village, Xu Wen saw a pot maker, carrying a burden, one end containing tools, materials and some daily necessities, and a small stove with molten iron and gold, which was a rather complex craftsman equipment he had seen.

He has always believed that there are more or less so many tools for a single craftsman, and perhaps some people have designed some of their own tools, but the number is generally not too much. Otherwise, where can I get so many things for door-to-door/service mobile work?

But when he came here today and saw this museum, he was really surprised.

The private museum is decorated more like a warehouse, with more than a dozen tall shelves filled with things.

Each shelf is for a different category, and none of the shelves have an empty grid, which is a bit squeezed. Labels are attached to the tools with information such as their name, purpose, and age.

"The carpentry class is here. Bai Liqi said, leading them through the elevated road to one of them.

"The history of human use of wood is so long, that there have been records of the use of wood almost since the beginning of human existence. So there are a lot of related tools, we put two shelves, and a little bit can't put it down, only take some more typical examples. Baili Qi said.

Xu Wen glanced slowly, and it was obvious that the tools on the shelves were arranged in chronological order.

The earliest was prehistoric, when tools were quite simple, mainly stones, bone fragments, ropes, and so on.

Later, bronze, iron and other metals gradually appeared, and the shape of the tools began to change continuously.

Rope, for example, was originally used to cut wood in many cases. Later someone imitated its shape with metal, added handles, turned into saw blades and saws.

Later, saws evolved into various categories such as slotted saws, plate saws, narrow hand saws, jigsaws, etc., to cope with different situations.

Nowadays, it has been further subdivided into more varied types, such as dovetail and dovetail saws.

Xu Wen stared at the swallowtail saw for a while, and asked Bailiqi: "Can you pick it up and take a look?" ”

"Whatever. The old cultural relics of the past cannot be taken and are easy to break, but the new ones are available to you at will, everywhere, and they are easy to get. Baili Qi gestured.

"Hmm......" Xu Wen nodded and picked it up.

At the moment of starting, Xu Wen knew how it was used and where the advantages were.

To make a dovetail tenon, of course, it still requires certain skills, but it is indeed much simpler in operation.

Holding it, Xu Wen had an urge to find a piece of wood and make a few dovetails on the spot to try - a good tool has such magic.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the urge in his heart, and moved his gaze to the other side.

"What is this?" The label under the tool may be missing, empty. Xu Wen could tell that it was a planer, but it was completely different from the ones he was used to.

"Hey, why is this post gone?tsk, I have to check it all well when I go back......" The first thing Baili Qi noticed was the management problem here.

"European hand planer. Lu Yuan opened his mouth coldly, recognized it first, and introduced it to Xu Wen, "The things handed down by foreigners, but they are quite easy to use, and they are used a lot now." ”

It is normal for someone like Xu Wen to learn the craft of a traditional carpenter and not to know new tools, so Lu Yuan is not surprised.

"Have you used it?" did your father promise you to use it?" Xu Wen remembered Lu Lihai's attitude towards sandpaper, and couldn't help but ask.

"He started using this first, I used it when I started learning carpenter's work, and I didn't know it was a new guy until later. Lu Yuan said.

Even Lu Lihai inevitably accepts such changes......

This one can also be held and seen, Xu Wen reached out to pick it up, and also knew its advantages almost instantly.

"The tools here are all manual tools, in fact, power tools are also a major mainstream now. There are also machine tools in large factories or something, which are getting more and more sophisticated, and now this thing is indispensable in industrial production, but it is endless to put it up, and it is basically impossible to do it. So we're currently limited to hand tools, and we don't put in electric tools. Baili Qi sighed twice, very regretful.

Xu Wen's eyes suddenly appeared in front of Jiangnan Workshop and Yipinfang.

Signs of institutionalized management can be seen in the neatness of the houses, the cleanliness of the roads, and everything that is within the reach of the naked eye. A collection of official workshops and a private workshop, but they all present the rudiments of clustered industrial production.

Ancient craftsmen are still like this, and the current industry is not the same as the direction of craftsmen?

Next, Xu Wen did not speak, but stood in front of the shelf, his eyes swept over one by one.

At least half of the tools of the new era are unknown to him, but with his carpentry skills, he can basically quickly distinguish their uses and advantages.

The tools are refined step by step, the difficulty of the skill is reduced step by step, and the threshold for woodworking forming is also lowered a lot.

"That's what I'm talking about. Soon, Bai Li Qi found a tool from the shelf and handed it to them, "The process on the flowing surface, I think I can use this to try." ”

Lu Yuan took it curiously, and was groping for its use, Xu Wen glanced over there, nodded and said, "It's true." ”

This tool looks a little strange, but Xu Wen can see at a glance that it is specially used to make inner fillets.

The difficulty of the process of flowing water surface is the size and fit of the inner fillet, this tool has a very clear scale on it, only need to adjust it according to the scale, the operation is very simple.

"Oh oh!" Xu Wen understood as soon as he explained, but not only was he not happy, but he also quickly frowned, a little depressed, "In this way, the craft I have learned for more than twenty years is not completely useless?"

"How could that be. Baili Qi said disapprehantly, "No matter how good the tool is, it is also made by people." Even if it is a round chisel inside this vernier, what Xu Wen makes is definitely not the same as what you make. ”

"You ......" He spoke too directly, Lu Yuan was stalked, and suddenly realized the kind of mood that his father often had when facing him.

But after hearing this, he was finally much more relaxed, far less depressed than before.

However, at this time, Xu Wen looked up at Baili Qi, still frowning, with a thoughtful expression.

Suddenly, he thought of the question that Lian Tianqing had asked him before coming back this time.