Lu Zi'an walked to the workbench with the copper tire, picked up the file and gently scraped it on the copper tire.

The cut reveals a clear trace, revealing the reddish copper color of the tire itself.

"Huh?"

Lu Zi'an frowned, rubbed his fingertips slightly, the cut surface was smooth, and the purity of the copper tire was extremely high, but this kind of copper tire was not suitable for cloisonné.

Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, a master couldn't help but step forward and asked with concern, "Master Lu, what's wrong?"

"It's fine. Lu Zi'an handed the copper tire back: "This copper tire is not suitable, is there a copper raw material with lower purity?"

Originally, I wanted to use this copper tire directly to try the rebirth process, but the purity of this copper is too high, although the ductility is very good, but the corrosion resistance is too high, and then it will affect the overall result.

The crowd felt very strange about his request.

Generally, copper tires are made of copper with the highest purity, the purer the better, so Taixiao needs a large amount of high expenses every year to pay for the purchase of copper materials.

How is Master Lu's request contrary to theirs?

There are low-purity copper materials, but they are ......

The Minister of Procurement nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes." ”

Under his leadership, Lu Zi'an went to another area with them, and as soon as they entered this workshop, a heat wave suddenly rolled in.

The workshop director frowned and looked at Lu Zi'an's clothes, and said hesitantly: "Master Lu, why don't you pick the materials, and I'll find someone to help you do it?"

"No, I don't. Lu Zi'an walked straight in, picked up the hammer and gently stroked it: "I want to try hammering (yè) myself." ”

Hammering?

With the development of modern technology, in addition to some copper tires with complex shapes, they are still used manually, and some of the first tires Taixiao has realized the use of machinery to car, press, roll, spin, and implement the process of mechanical tire making.

Manual hammering seems simple, but without a few years of hard work at hand, it can't be formed at all.

Even if it can be welded together, it will not be possible if the size of each part is different.

What's more, unexpectedly, and reasonably, Lu Zi'an really chose a piece of copper with low purity among the copper blocks.

This kind of copper is not pure enough, and the ductility is not good enough, so it is difficult to make copper tires, so Taixiao rarely uses it, but just uses it for preparation.

Lu Zi'an clamped this piece of copper, and immediately the discerning elementary school quickly heated the stove with his bare hands.

The heat hit his face, burning the back of his hand.

His hands are steady and his eyes are sharp.

When Lu Zi'an began to make an artifact, all the hustle and bustle of the outside world had been left behind him.

Hammering is a delicate and tedious production process, and the use of hammers and chisels is the key to the entire forging process, which is why it is called hammered chisels.

After the copper block is heated, it is taken out and beaten, struck, and repeatedly.

Hundreds of chisels of various forms, large and small wooden hammers, iron hammers, iron oranges, iron rods of different sizes and weights......

Switching freely in Lu Zi'an's hands like flowing water, he smoothly outlined the undulating lines with various colors of chisels on the copper plate.

This kind of line is called routing.

In the entire factory of Taixiao, there are only eight masters who can walk the line so smoothly and freely.

In the workshop, no one spoke, everyone watched quietly.

The monotonous clanging sound, accompanied by the whirring sound of the drum, formed the most beautiful music in this workshop.

Not only did the apprentices pay attention, but even some of the masters didn't blink.

Lu Zi'an's hammering technique was more complex and delicate than they had ever learned.

Many complex utensils are generally divided into two parts for hammering, or hammering into multiple parts, and finally welding or riveting each part together to polish it smooth.

Taking bottles as an example, the general bottle is formed by the three-stage hammering and welding of the bottle mouth, bottle belly and bottle holder.

Although there will inevitably be some slight differences in the joints, it is much easier than shaping them as a whole.

But Lu Zi'an obviously didn't think so, he first hammered out the outline of a lily vase with a thin neck, and then hammered out a double petal shape from the inside out.

This hand alone has already won a lot of people present.

Everyone exchanged a look without a trace, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

looked at the copper and plasticine in Lu Zi'an's hands, let him pinch and flatten, it looked like a play.

Those who really know how to do it know that it is easy to hammer a copper block into a copper skin of moderate thickness, but to make it evenly surface and stacked so perfectly to form a bottle body, this is enough to just trace the wires.

But Lu Zi'an seemed to be very relaxed, and he didn't even pause for half a minute in his hand, heating up the copper bottle from time to time, and then continued to hammer.

The process is a lot more difficult, but the petals hammered out as a whole are slightly protruding from the inner wall to the outer wall, forming an inner concave and outer convex effect, which is more natural than the joint.

Then he gently picked up the bronze tire, hammered it several times on the convex outline of the petals, and struck it until it gradually stretched like a blooming lily, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and stopped.

The process of hammering, if you are serious about it, is actually not complicated, and many people will even find it boring.

But things in the world are like this, the simpler the process and the more singular the skill, the more difficult it is to achieve perfection.

The road to simplicity.

In this hammer, the difference between the millimeters is only a heart, and others cannot understand it.

However, because of this, among the many uncertainties and imperfections, many people cannot achieve such a skill close to the level of the Tao, so they can only look at the artifacts they have put together and secretly mourn......

This is a sadness that only craftsmen can understand.

Many masters silently lowered their heads and reflected on their skills from the bottom of their hearts.

The sound of the blast gradually stopped, and after the fire faded, the copper tires gradually cooled.

Lu Zi'an picked up the copper tire with his gloved hand, turned it around slightly in front of him, and after making sure that it was correct, he picked it up and walked outside.

"Master Lu, I'll come, I'll come. Someone immediately caught up with him and took the brass tire with great gratitude.

Looking at the flames dancing in their eyes, Lu Zi let go of his hand calmly and took the thermos cup handed by Ying Xuan.

"This line is really a master's craft. ”

"I've been hammering for decades, and I really don't have the courage to make such a large plastic copper tire......"

"Actually, Master Zou, you can try it, try it!"

"But then again, this plastic hammer is better than the one that is put together. ”

This is, of course, a piece of nonsense.

Everyone can see that this plastic hammer is pulled out, without considering whether the assembly part is contacted, and the comparison is omitted.

Everyone loved it, and the copper tire passed back and forth in their hands.

At this moment, there is no boundary between the so-called master and apprentice, and everyone is just an appreciator.

The copper tire spun around and was handed back again, giving everyone a new layer of understanding of the definition of hammering.

It was only when the copper tire was handed to Lu Zi'an that people suddenly remembered: It's not good! Lu Zi'an wants to be reborn cloisonné!

Almost in unison, several masters looked at the bronze tire with heartache: "Master Lu, can you not get out of the baby?"

Such a delicate copper tire, even if it is not glazed or blue, it is also a very exquisite work of art!

As long as they thought of such a good copper tire, they were taken off when they said that they would take it off, and their hearts were almost suffocated.

Lu Zi'an checked the copper tire, and replied without raising his head: "No." ”

The focus of his skills is cloisonné, and the copper tire is just a base for him.

Have you ever seen someone give up building a house because the foundation is too beautiful?

At least he hadn't seen it.

Therefore, no matter how reluctant others were, Lu Zi'an still directly started to make cloisonné technology.

In this step, he chose the purest copper wire.

Using tweezers, the soft, flat and flexible copper wire is smoothly and naturally pinched out according to the sample in his heart.

After pinching on the paper, it is dipped in white corn paste and carefully glued to the copper tire.

The filigree craft is ingenious, and many masters in Taixiao even need the cooperation of many people to succeed, but Lu Zi'an is a master of art, and with his skillful skills, he actually pinched out a few lilies with vivid charm with his own strength.

The lily is slightly tilted, obviously pinched on the plane, but it is stretched appropriately, and the picture with such simple lines has a light and three-dimensional feeling of being blown by the breeze.

And then when it was glued to the copper tire, there was a kind of shyness with a low hanging, especially the stretched petals, obviously there were not many strokes, but it easily created a light and elegant and noble feeling, which made people suddenly have a wonderful feeling: only such a beautiful filigree lily can live up to this wonderful copper tire!