"Master Chen, could you please help me see how the quality of this olive pit is?" Wang Zhiwei deliberately rushed from Tongcheng to Zinc City for the sake of a few olive pits in his hand, and the master in front of him was Chen Li, a famous nuclear carving master in Zinc City.

"Your olive pit is a new material, and the value is not much, if you really want to carve it for me, I am afraid that the labor cost will be much higher than the value of your olive. ”

Although Chen Li's words were very tactful, the person opposite should be very clear about what he meant, it is not cheap to ask him to make a move, and most of the people who can contact him are introduced by acquaintances in the circle, and the value is not too bad, and the other party rashly took out this quality olive core, which seemed a little abrupt.

"Master Chen, is the quality of this olive pit not good?" In fact, Wang Zhiwei doesn't know much about olive pits, but at present, people in the Tongcheng literary and entertainment world have more or less received some Kunyang olive cores in their hands.

In fact, the cost of the olive pit is not high, the newer the material, the cheaper, the quality of the Kunyang olive pit is good, but the olive pit picked out from the fresh olives is really new and cannot be newer.

People who play this kind of thing have a lot of old materials in their hands, such as Kunyang's olive core is not a high-end material at all, and it is generally just a deception to laymen.

"It cost a lot of money to collect this material?"

"Not really. ”

When Wang Zhiwei first sold olives, they were originally sold as fruits and ingredients, who knew that the goods had not been sold out, and this thing had turned into a kind of cultural play, but everything related to cultural play would not be too cheap, and the original price of Kunyang olives was expensive, and this olive core would be sold for 200 to 250 yuan a piece. Wang Zhiwei left dozens of good olive pits for himself and prepared to make a bracelet.

"The size of this olive pit is good, it looks like the oil content is also very good, and the hardness has to be learned only when you get started, and my labor fee is 4,000 pieces. ”

In fact, if Chen Li is a friend, the price is not so high, about 2,500 yuan a piece, but he doesn't know what Wang Zhiwei's intentions are, and the people who usually look for him to carve olive pits will never come up with this kind of new material, Chen Li deliberately wants to scare off the other party with a high price.

He has seen too many of this kind of layman, and always feels that the things he brings are good, and any carver is worthy of it, and then he runs far away when he asks the price.

"Then Master Chen, look at my wrist, how many bracelets are more appropriate. ”

Looking at the other party's outstretched thick wrist, Chen Li was stunned. I didn't expect this person to be really willing to spend 4,000 carvings to match this olive pit.

In fact, at present, the people who play the most olive pits in Kunyang are still the wholesalers under Kunyang's hands, don't underestimate the vanity of the big men, this olive pit is a trivial matter, and face is the top priority.

Two days ago, when Lao Xia was picking up the goods at the gate of Kunyang, he inadvertently leaked his newly carved Kunyang olive core bracelet, which was claimed to be carved by the best master in the Zinc City Zhoushan Nuclear Carving Garden.

Wang Zhiwei looked at the Buddha statue on the small olive core, which was kind and kind, and the carving was very good, so he immediately drove so far today and inquired about Master Chen's side, after all, the same name as the nuclear carving master in Lao Xia's mouth was only Master Chen in front of him.

"I can't pick up urgent mail here, at least I have to wait for half a month, and I will carve one, and I will look at the rest. ”

Wang Zhiwei didn't understand these things originally, but when he heard Chen Li say this, he overturned and believed it, so he left the deposit and olive core and left.

"Xiao Chao, these ten olive cores are made into beads. ”

"Okay, how many days is the construction period given by the master guest?"

"Half a month. ”

After Wang Zhiwei left, Chen Li called his apprentice, in fact, nuclear carving has long become an industry, most of the nuclear carving is machine carving, hand-carved very few, since the guest paid the price of hand-carving, then he naturally will not deceive people at this point.

But in Chen Li's opinion, it is good to be able to help Wang Zhiwei carve one at this level, and just throw the rest to his apprentice Li Chao, the quality of this olive core is enough for the apprentice to practice.

First of all, this is very clear about the structure of this olive core, after all, if you don't pay attention to it when polishing, the olive core will leak and crack, and the beads are to be polished by hand, so much time for Li Chao to polish a string of beads, it can be regarded as Chen Li's assessment of the apprentice.

Li Chao has been apprenticed with the master for 5 years, and at this stage he is already very familiar with the process technology of various nuclear carvings, and the price on the market can also be shouted to about 800 pieces, but the master will not give him training for particularly good materials.

Li Chao took the 12 olive cores handed over by Chen Li, and the master only asked for 10 finished products, obviously the extra was to prevent him from scrapping.

It was still a bit nervous to produce 10 finished products in half a month, so Li Chao quickly devoted himself to the preparation of the nuclear carving.

Making a round olive pit does not involve modeling, so Li Chao only observed the structure of the olive pit slightly, and began the polishing work.

With the opening of the machine, when the walnuts were polished, Li Chao found that the quality of the olive pit was good, not to mention the very oily, and the hardness was also very good.

Although Li Chao had a good evaluation of the olive pit in his heart, the movements in his hands did not stop, and soon the sharp places at the two ends of the olive pit began to be smoothed by Li Chao, and the olive pit developed towards a circle.

I don't know if it's because the flesh of this olive pit is thick and oily, or because Li Chao's hand feels good today, in short, the polishing of this olive pit is going very smoothly, and soon a round olive pit will be ready.

Li Chao gently wiped the polished olive pit with a cloth, and found that the texture inside was very clear, not to mention, even if there was no oil, the oily and shiny feeling was not bad, and the quality of the olive pit was really surprisingly good.

Looking up, I saw that more than four hours had passed, and the polishing of the olive pit was really smooth today. During this period, Li Chao did not feel the slightest difficulty, and this olive pit gave Li Chao the illusion that he had the skills of a master.

Li Chao decided that he should polish this batch of olive cores with his heart, if he does not scrap any of them, then the remaining two olive cores are his own materials, when Li Chao is ready to carve his own design for half a year's works, there are such good materials I believe that the process of product production will be much smoother.

If the apprentice Li Chao can feel the technical gain of this batch of olive cores, then Chen Li's positioning of this batch of olive cores is much higher.

The hardness and oily material does not need to be concerned about temperature and humidity when carving, and there is no need to worry about cracking and other problems, which is simply a good material that can be encountered but not sought by their nuclear carving masters.

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