Chapter 54: Slow Wheel Pottery

The things that Shi Yong brought back were also varied, and many tribes began to help Teng Snake find things as soon as they went back, although there were no seeds at this time, but Song Xuan said at the time that all kinds of strange things are fine, flowers, plants, stones and mud, as long as they are not everywhere, they can be found first and let Song Xuan take a look.

So this time Shi Yong and the others brought back a lot of stones, but Song Xuan turned over them carefully, although a few of them were colorful, but they should be useless, at least Song Xuan didn't know how to use them.

Song Xuan's most wanted to find copper or iron ore, these two ores were relatively large, easy to find, and relatively easy to refine, and the charcoal in the tribe should be able to deal with it.

But it's okay to not find it for the time being, I didn't have the hope that it can be solved at one time, as the so-called greater hope, the greater the disappointment, this hope is smaller, and naturally it will not be too disappointed.

But Shi Meng was a little lost, and when he saw Song Xuan pour out all the stones, he said with some distress:

"God...... Oracle, don't you want this? ”

"It's useless, what are you left for?"

Seeing that the stone that had come back from his hard work was thrown outside the door like this, Shi Meng was still a little sad, although he didn't understand it, but he didn't say much.

Just as Song Xuan was waiting for the rice seeds to grow, Shi excitedly held a clay billet and found Song Xuan squatting on the edge of the field:

"Divine Messenger, what do you think of this pottery?"

At a glance, Song Xuan could see the difference between this clay blank and the previous one, although the materials of both were made of clay, but the stone in his hand was obviously more rounded now.

I made it before, but how to rub the stone, there are always places that are not so perfect, the thickness is uneven, especially there are many places where there are traces of hand pinching, but now this one is much better, and there are no handprints inside and out.

Seeing such a clay blank, Song Xuan was also a little surprised and asked:

"How do you do that?"

"Hey, look!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a large plate from behind him, and then demonstrated.

I saw the stone turning the plate with one hand, and simulating the decoration of the clay with the other:

"Divine envoy, that's it, it'll be light in a while!"

As soon as he saw the movement of the stone, Song Xuan remembered, isn't this the turntable used to make pottery handicrafts, who would have thought that the stone would be figured out by itself.

Giving up observing the rice sprouts that had just emerged from the soil, Song Xuan followed the stone to his small workshop.

This operation of the stone can be regarded as evoking Song Xuan's dusty memory, but the stone is still too simple, and it is definitely not so stable to rotate by hand.

So Song Xuan decided to modify it on this basis, although the conditions in the tribe are limited, but it is still possible to make a simple roulette.

However, the roulette still has to be made of clay to make a burn, although it can also be polished with stone, but it is too time-consuming, polishing a large stone into a roulette that can be used directly, I am afraid that there is no month, but the kiln is much faster, plus the time of billet making, it can come out in two or three days.

Above the roulette wheel is a big round cake, in order to make it easier, the bigger the better, but if it is too big, it will not be good, Song Xuan let the stone look at it, the width of about half a meter can be used, this width The main pottery used in the tribe can be taken into account, no matter how big it is, it will not be good.

The bottom of the plate is a hollowed-out cylinder in the middle, so that when you use it, you can stand the whole turntable on a suitable piece of wood, and then apply some oil when you use it, I believe it is quite easy to turn.

Listening to Song Xuan's thoughts, the stone also nodded again and again, although it was similar to the principle of his turntable, but Song Xuan's redesigned design was obviously better to use, the only thing to pay attention to was that he had to burn the roulette wheel first.

As soon as he finished speaking, the stone was mixed with clay in front of Song Xuan, and there was not much going on in the tribes left and right, so Song Xuan was watching from the side.

Seeing that the stones were made several in succession and failed to succeed, they all collapsed when expanding the pottery plate, the wheel wheel was too big, the base was too small, the edge area lost its support and just connected a piece, and the back and even the surrounding area were destroyed.

Song Xuan thought for a while and said:

"Stone, in this way, you do it upside down, put the base on it!"

Stone: (⊙ω⊙) !!

"I'll go, oracle, can I do this?"

In an instant, the stone seemed to have opened the door to a new world, and he looked at Song Xuan with wide eyes, his eyes full of admiration.

Sure enough, it was much easier to change the way of thinking, not only the pottery plate was made bigger, but the base was also perfectly decorated, in order to ensure that the hole of the base was round enough, the stone took a piece of bamboo, dipped in water and turned around in it a few times.

There are many wood tribes of the right thickness, but if the holes are not round, they will be unstable when they turn, and they will definitely shake everywhere when the time comes.

For this reason, for the entire roulette wheel, the stone was also trimmed again and again, scraping back and forth on the plate with straight wood, to ensure that it was smooth enough, and it was carefully carved, and it took two or three hours for the stone to make the clay billet of the roulette wheel, not only did he look good, but even Song Xuan felt that it was more perfect.

Being able to do this with such a rudimentary tool shows that he still put a lot of effort into it.

After the pottery is done, wait for it to dry and burn, the current temperature is about the same in two or three days, and now there is not much demand for pottery in the tribe, so the stone is only fired once in a few days.

Looking at these two simple pottery kilns, Song Xuan wondered if he could upgrade it, after all, it could be used for both later transactions and tribal construction.

Although the wooden structure of the house is also good to live in, but in terms of sound insulation and warmth, and it is not very strong, in the rainy day, more or less will wash down some mud around the house, if it is changed to a brick structure, I think it will be a lot better.

There is also the wall in the tribe, although after many upgrades, the wooden wall is not at all what it was at the beginning, but due to the material, it is still difficult to make it tall, wide and strong, but if it is built with bricks like the ancient city wall, how magnificent it should be.

But this is also Song Xuan's fantasy, Teng Snake can't support such a large-scale construction now, but the kiln can be redesigned, fortunately, it is also in a hurry, Song Xuan let the stone burn a few bricks to try his hand, if he can, he can use bricks to build a larger kiln first.

In this way, more things can be fired at one time, and instead of the current situation, a roulette wheel can almost fill the entire kiln.