Chapter 486: Lacquerware

Day 18.

When he got up in the morning, Li Junge checked the traps as usual every morning, carried the bamboo back, fetched water, and picked the hemp bundles.

Then go and uncover the paper on the table.

A4 size bamboo paper, which gives thirty-two sheets.

Li Junge separated the paper one by one, stacked it again, and began to check the paper.

The paper is mixed with hemp wool, so the toughness is quite good, the texture is tougher than Shengxuan, it is inferior to mulberry hemp paper, and the quality is much better than the yellow paper used to hang graves in the countryside.

Think about it, the alkali material used to soak bamboo silk is caustic soda instead of lime in the countryside, all the operations are very fine, the material is pure, and the texture is much better and normal.

If the big workshop does this, it will have to lose unless you can sell Qingtan Xuan at that price.

It's a pity that the whiteness is not enough, and the color is yellow and gray, but Li Junge thought about it again, and wrote on it, and the gray and yellow background was lined with a lining, but there was an extra quaint taste.

But now I can't use it, I received bad news last night, Ayin's relatives will come to visit the door in a few days, and this thing can only be prepared for her first.

Generally, he shook his head and sighed that Sven swept the floor, while carrying the tabletop and going to the pulp jar to operate, and re-pasted the tabletop and came back to bake.

Then start making breakfast.

Yesterday, inspired by Ayin, Li Junge made something like a pulp copy, with equal length and width, and the bamboo silk was also much higher, turning into a square steamer.

Then take a brown silk pot lid, flatten it in half and step on it, open it again, change the angle and then flatten it in half, take a machete to chop off the arc at the bottom, after opening, the conical pot lid becomes a pyramid-shaped pot lid, and the cover is a square steamer, just right.

Then boil half a pot of water and take the honeycomb plate that was originally prepared for the pottery kiln.

The honeycomb plate burned two more spare items last time, and it has been left unattended, and now it is just right to use.

Put the steamer up, plug the hole that exposes the outside of the steamer with hemp wool, put it on top of the pot, and then put the steamer on it, and the steam can only drill into the steamer.

It's perfect.

Then two pots of tapioca pulp were mixed, one with syrup and one with coconut milk.

After the pot was in full swing, Li Junge took a big spoon and scooped two large spoons of coconut milk and cassava pulp into it, and spread a thin layer on the bottom of the cage.

After steaming for ten minutes, Li Junge opened the steamer and scooped two large spoonfuls of syrup and cassava syrup into it.

In this way, layer by layer, after pouring five or six layers, Ayin got up.

Li Junge poured the last layer of coconut milk, covered the pot and continued to steam, and then washed with Ayin.

After washing, Li Junge opened the steamer, brought a clean small mat, waited for the steamer to cool down a little, turned it over and buckled it vigorously on the mat, and the steamer was upright, and a boxy cake was placed on the bamboo mat.

Peel off the top layer of the bamboo silk mat, grab a small handful of desiccated coconut and sprinkle it carefully, this cake is so beautiful that you don't want it.

The bottom layer is a white coconut milk layer, and then a golden and transparent syrup layer, so that five or six layers are stacked layer by layer, and the top layer is also snow-white, with some white coconut snowflakes scattered on it.

After cooling the cake, Li Junge and Ayin first went to make threads and ropes.

By the time this is done, the cake will be cold.

Li Junge found a thin twine and cut the square cake into diamond-shaped pieces.

Some triangular leftovers are fed to the two beards, and the male and female hosts naturally enjoy the beautiful diamond-shaped five-layer cake.

Arrange the five-layer cake into two plates, put some fresh herbs on the side, and put it on the bamboo table.

Set up bamboo chairs on both sides of the bamboo table, and make a small can of papaya juice and a small can of coconut water.

Placing two cups next to the plate, Li Junge wet his hair, stroked two handfuls of his hands on his head, and made a big back. Pretending to bring Ayin, who was laughing next to him, over, moved the chair, let Ayin take his seat, moved the chair up a little more, and said, "Beautiful lady, it's an honor to have breakfast with you." ”

Ayin smiled like a flower: "Elegant gentleman, thank you for your hospitality." ”

The bearded man was smiling next to him, and this scene is definitely a classic shot in this show.

Li Junge poured a glass of papaya juice for Ayin and another cup for himself, and the two began to eat with sharpened bamboo knives and forks.

After eating a fake breakfast, Li Junge shrouded the remaining tapioca cake with fine bamboo silk rice, and then Ayin began to mix lacquer and weave, Li Junge untied the hemp rope of the bow embryo and checked the bow embryo.

The bamboo skin is firmly attached to the bow embryo, and the color is bright yellow.

Li Junge held the middle of the bow embryo in one hand and the bow slightly in the other, and slashed twice in mid-air, and the bow embryo let out a low whining sound.

"Damn, is this a bow embryo or a flat shoulder? Why do I think it's okay to pick sixty or seventy pounds?" Li Junge scratched his scalp, feeling that this time he seemed to be pretending to be big.

Scrape the edge of the bamboo wire smooth, hold the middle of the bow embryo in your hand, obviously not take advantage of the hand, too thick.

Removing the middle of the bamboo skin from the width of his palm, Li Junge took a wooden file to file this section out of a concave arc.

It was not until it was comfortable to hold that the bow embryo bamboo skin was placed down on the carpentry table.

Viewed from the side, the bow embryo looks like a low, long-arched bridge, with two small boats docked at either end.

There's also a bit of reflex in it.

Viewed from above, the bow embryo resembles two willow-leaf swords of the same model, with blades extending to both ends and hilts stacked on top of each other.

The overall lines are smooth and even, and the shape is needless to say.

After sanding the grip first and then the linen, and polishing it until it shines well, Li Junge began to open the string groove.

Then it is time to polish the grooves and holes, and all the edged parts are rounded and smoothed with sandpaper and linen.

By tonight, the lacquer will be boiled, and Li Junge will not go anywhere today, so he will prepare to make utensils at home.

Take two small pieces of bamboo, scrape and polish them, and make them the size of a toothbrush.

Then the smallest needle drill staggered rows of small holes into it.

Take more than a dozen bamboo rat hairs to align the bottom, tie the middle with fine twine, and pull through the small hole, and the mouse hair will be pulled into the small hole.

The rat hair does not pull through the hole, but stops when it reaches the bottom of the hole.

In this way, two toothbrushes were made in no time.

Put a piece of bamboo in the stove and burn it, then take it out, blow out the open flame, take a toothbrush and brush it on the side of the charcoal fire a few times, and the mouse hair will be burned flat.

After taking the bark sandpaper and brushing it a few times with a toothbrush, the carbonized hairs were cleaned.

After washing the toothbrush and hanging it to dry, Li Junge began to do a second one.

Then take a five-millimeter-thick piece of wood and drill it on the side with a two-millimeter-diameter needle drill with the same diameter and hole spacing.

Then take the thin bamboo stick of the same aperture that has been pulled and cut it off, insert it into the hole, cut it neatly with a machete, and then scrape it a few times on the sandpaper, rotate the small bamboo stick 90 degrees each, and scrape it a few times, and the head of the bamboo wire will become a round head.

Punch holes on both sides of the wood chips, insert bamboo nails, and then take two pieces of wood chips of the same thickness and punch and rivet them, which becomes a concave character, and the round-headed bamboo sticks are protected inside.

Then remove the bamboo stick used as the tooth of the comb, cut off the corners of the concave frame, grind the direction of the opening, polish the whole smooth, and insert the round-headed bamboo stick back, which gives a comb.

Li Junge made two more plates with bamboo silk, plus the things he usually made, he had a total of two bamboo silk bowl tires, two bamboo silk plate tires, two basin tires one large and one small, and some spoon tires.

Then I also selected a lot of dry bark with curvature, the inner surface of the bark is very smooth, and I put it on a bamboo chip with a suitable curvature, and then the knife was transformed into a cassava peel, and the outer bark of the bark was scraped off.

After scraping and leveling, soak the bark.

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In the middle, I went to shop for paper twice and ate some cakes, and it was evening.

The raw lacquer was finally dried, and Li Junge poured the rest back into the paint tube, leaving only half of it, about seven taels, adding two taels of coconut oil, half a catty of water, one and a half catties of tapioca flour, and some slaked lime powder, which was adjusted into putty.

Then start to apply the inside and outside of the woven bamboo silk tire, and make the bowl tire, plate tire, and basin tire into putty semi-finished products.

After the putty tires are ready, put them on the three-legged bamboo nails one by one.

Then disassemble the comb, fill the eyelets with putty, reassemble the comb, remove the excess putty with a bamboo skewer, and paint the interface position flat.

At the bottom of the toothbrush, the twine is not taken, and each eyelet is also filled with putty, and then a little putty is piled up to scrape the back of the toothbrush into an arc.

The last big job, the desktop.

Since the third batch of paper dried in the afternoon, the desktop has not been used again, and it has been baking on the side of the stove.

Now it is also disassembled, all the edges, holes, and wood-to-wood contact surfaces are smeared with a thin layer of putty, put back together, and scrape off the excess putty with a thin bamboo knife.

By the way, fill in some small potholes on the tabletop.

This is the role of lacquer, which can be used not only as a paint, but also as a binder and filler for bamboo and woodware, and the effect is extraordinary.

After finishing all this, Li Junge poured out a little bit of lacquer, mixed it with hemp seed oil and coconut oil into two parts, and brushed them on two small pieces of wood.

After covering the lacquer tube, Li Junge set up a bamboo frame on the stove, wrapped it in dried palm leaves, put a large half basin of water on the bottom, covered it with a honeycomb pottery plate, spread a layer of hay, and then put putty tires, toothbrushes, combs, and wood chips for experiments into it. Then cover the top with a large brown silk funnel to make a lacquer room.

Lacquer has a quirky property that at the same temperature, the higher the humidity, the faster it dries.

This is because the molecules of lacquer will combine with water molecules, just like soy milk meets salt, which will form a complex reaction and become a solid.

This membrane is fine and compact, no longer soluble in water, and does not easily react with other substances.

Therefore, the lacquerware is not afraid of water, even if the water is blistered under the Mawangdui for thousands of years, it is still intact as new.

This is also the reason why Uncle Mitsuki's fishing rod is made of natural lacquer.

This is the origin of the old saying "a thousand years of paint".

Although the putty tire has been thinned as much as possible, more than three catties of putty are still used cleanly.

He was ping pong here, jumping up and down, of course Ayin couldn't sleep, the two of them were in the firelight, one weaving, the other tossing.

It wasn't until everything was done that the two lay down to rest.

Day 19.

The two of them got up late every day, and Li Junge first went to check things.

The table top is too big, and I couldn't put it in the paint room yesterday, so I can only rely on God.

The rest have been specially treated and the surface has become a hard shell.

Li Junge took out the same thing and checked it, and the bamboo silk tire was obviously not hot enough, so he continued to put it back.

The toothbrush comb is no longer a big problem.

But I don't dare to use it, this thing is in direct contact with the body, in case it is not completely solidified, there are many problems.

The rest is two pieces of wood, after inspection, Li Junge believes that hemp paint is suitable for primer, coconut paint is suitable for pushing.