Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 485 Lacquerware
Chapter 480 Lacquerware

No. 18 days.

When he got up in the morning, Li Junge went about his daily routine every morning, checking the traps, carrying bamboo back, fetching water, and picking hemp bundles.

Then go to peel off the paper on the table.

A4 size bamboo paper, this gets 32 sheets.

Li Junge separated the papers one by one, stacked them again, and began to check the quality of the papers.

The paper is mixed with flax, so the toughness is quite good, which is softer than Shengxuan, not as good as mulberry paper, and far better than the yellow paper used to hang graves in the countryside.

Thinking about it, the caustic soda used to make bamboo silk is caustic soda instead of lime from the countryside. All the operations are very fine, the materials are pure, and the texture is much better, which is normal.

If the big workshops do this, they will lose the bottom line unless you can sell the green sandalwood for the price.

It is a pity that the whiteness is not enough, and the color is yellowish and grayish, but Li Junge thinks again, writing on it, the grayish-yellow background complements it, but it has a more simple taste.

But it can't be used now. I received bad news last night that Ah Yin's relatives are coming to visit in a few days, so I can only prepare this thing for her first.

Generally shaking his head, he lamented the gentle sweeping of the floor, and while carrying the tabletop, he went to the pulp vat to operate it, and re-attached the tabletop to bake it.

Then start making breakfast.

Inspired by A Yin yesterday, Li Junge made another paper-pulp chazi. The length and width are equal, and the top of the bamboo wire is much higher. It becomes a square steamer.

Then take a brown silk pot lid, flatten it, fold it in half and step it flat, open it again, flatten it at another angle, then chop it off the arc of the bottom edge with a machete. After opening, the conical pot lid becomes a pyramid-shaped pot Cover, cover the square steamer, just right.

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

Last time, I burned two extra honeycomb plates as spares and kept them there, so they can be used now.

Put the steamer up, block the hole exposed outside the steamer with hemp, put it on the top of the pot, and then put the steamer up, the steam can only go into the steamer.

That's perfect.

Then I adjusted two pots of cassava pulp, one with syrup and the other with coconut milk.

After the pot was filled with air, Li Junge scooped two tablespoons of coconut milk and cassava pulp into it with a large spoon, and spread a thin layer on the bottom of the cage.

After steaming for 10 minutes, Li Junge opened the steamer and scooped two tablespoons of cassava syrup into it.

Just like this, layer by layer, after pouring five or six layers, Ah Yin got up.

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

When he came back from washing, Li Junge opened the steamer and brought a clean little mat. When the steamer was slightly cool, he turned it over and buckled the mat firmly to lift up the steamer. A big square cake was placed neatly. On the bamboo mat.

Take off the bamboo mat on the top layer, grab a small handful of shredded coconut and sprinkle it on, the cake is so beautiful that you don't want it.

The bottom layer is a layer of pure white coconut milk, and then a layer of golden transparent syrup. In this way, five or six layers are stacked layer by layer. The top layer is also snow white, with some white coconut snowflakes scattered on it.

After the cake was left to cool, Li Junge and A Yin first made thread and rope.

By the time this is done, the cake is already cold.

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

Feed some triangular leftovers to Liang Huzi, and the host and hostess will 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 made a small can of papaya juice and coconut juice.

Putting two cups next to the plate, Li Junge wet his hair and stroked his head twice with his hands, giving him a big back.Pretentiously, he brought over Ayin who was laughing so hard beside him, moved the chair, let Ayin take his place, then moved the chair up a bit, and said: "Beautiful lady, it's an honor to be with you Let's have breakfast."

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

The bearded man was filming beside him with a dimpled smile. This scene is definitely a classic shot in this show.

Li Junge poured a glass of papaya juice for A Yin, and poured another glass for himself, and the two began to eat with the prepared bamboo knife and fork.

After eating a fake breakfast, Li Junge covered the remaining cassava cake with fine bamboo shredded rice, and then A Yin started to mix the paint and weave. Li Junge untied the hemp rope of the bow embryo and inspected the bow embryo.

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

Li Junge held the middle of the bow embryo in one hand, and a bow tip in the other, and slashed it twice in mid-air, and the bow embryo made a low humming sound.

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

Scrape the edge of the bamboo silk smooth, and hold the middle of the bow embryo with your hand, it is obviously too thick because it is too thick.

Cut off the middle part of the bamboo skin to the width of a palm, and Li Junge used a wooden file to file the section into a concave arc.

Only when it is comfortable to hold, does the bamboo veneer of bow embryos be placed down on the woodworking table.

Seen from the side, Gongyu looks like a low long arch bridge, with two black shed boats docked at both ends.

There is also a little recurve meaning in it.

Seen from above, the bow embryos are like two willow-leaf swords of the same model, the blades protrude from both ends, and the hilts are overlapped and placed together.

The overall lines are smooth and uniform, and the shape is nothing to say.

After sanding the grip with sandpaper first and then with sackcloth, Li Junge began to open the string groove after polishing it until it was shiny and brilliant.

Then it is to polish the string groove and the hole, and polish all the ribbed parts into arcs, and use sandpaper and sackcloth to make it extremely smooth.

By tonight, the raw lacquer will be ready, so Li Junge will not go anywhere today, but is preparing to make utensils at home.

Take two small pieces of bamboo, scrape them off, and make them as big as the handle of a toothbrush.

Then the smallest needle drill drilled several rows of small holes staggered on it.

Take more than a dozen bamboo mouse hairs to align the bottom, tie the middle with a thin twine, and pull through the small hole, the mouse hair is pulled into the small hole by the middle.

The mouse hair does not pull through the small hole, and stops when it is pulled to the bottom of the small hole.

In this way, two toothbrushes were quickly made.

Put a bamboo slice in the stove and burn it, then take it out, blow out the open flame, and brush a toothbrush on one side of the charcoal fire quickly, and the mouse hair will be burnt flat.

After taking the bark sandpaper and brushing it with a toothbrush a few times, the carbonized hairs will be ground clean.

After washing the toothbrush and hanging it to dry, Li Junge started to do the second thing again.

Take another [-]mm thick wood chip and drill holes on the side with a [-]mm diameter needle drill with the same hole diameter and hole spacing.

Then take the thin bamboo sticks of the same aperture that have already been drawn and cut them off, insert them into the holes, cut them neatly with a machete, scrape them on the sandpaper a few times, rotate the small bamboo sticks [-] degrees each, and scrape them a few more times. The head becomes a round head.

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

Then remove the bamboo stick used as the teeth of the comb, cut off the corners of the concave letter frame, and grind it thin in the direction of the opening.

Li Junge wove two more plates out of bamboo silk. In addition to the things he usually makes, he has two bamboo silk bowls, two bamboo silk plates, one large and one small two pots, and some spoons. .

Then I also selected a lot of curved dry bark. The inner surface of the bark is smooth and no need to worry about it. I put it on the bamboo slices with suitable curvature, and then transformed the knife into the same way as planing cassava skin to scrape off the outer bark of the bark.

After scraping and smoothing, soak the bark.

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In the middle, I went to wash paper twice and ate some cakes. It was evening.

After the raw lacquer was finally dried, Li Junge poured the rest back into the paint container, leaving only half of it, about seven taels, and added two taels of coconut oil, half a catty of water, a catty and a half of cassava flour, and some slaked lime powder to make putty.

Then start to smear the inside and outside of the woven bamboo silk tires, and make bowl tires, plate tires, and pot tires 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 holes with putty, put the comb back together, remove the excess putty with a bamboo stick, and smooth the joint position.

At the bottom of the toothbrush, the twine is not removed, and each hole is carefully filled with putty, and then a little putty is piled up to scrape the back of the toothbrush into an arc shape.

The last big job, the desktop.

After the third batch of paper was dried in the afternoon, the tabletop was not used again, and it was kept on the side of the stove for baking.

Now it is also disassembled, and all the board edges, holes, and wood-to-wood contact surfaces are covered with a thin layer of putty, and then put together again, and the excess putty is scraped off with a thin bamboo knife.

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

This is the function of raw lacquer. It can not only be used as paint, but also as an adhesive and filler for bamboo and woodware, and the effect is extraordinary.

After finishing all these, Li Junge poured out a little bit of raw lacquer, mixed it with hempseed oil and coconut oil respectively, and brushed each on two small pieces of wood.

After covering the lacquer tube, Li Junge built a bamboo frame around the stove, wrapped it with dried palm leaves, put half a basin of clear water under it, covered it with a honeycomb pottery plate, spread a layer of hay, and then put putty, toothbrush Combs and wood chips for experiments were put in.Then cover the top with a big brown silk funnel to make a paint room.

Raw lacquer has a strange property that at the same temperature, the greater the humidity, the faster it dries.

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

This layer of film is fine and compact, it is no longer soluble in water, and it is not easy to react with other substances.

Therefore, lacquerware is not afraid of water. Even if it has been soaked in water for thousands of years under Mawangdui, it is still as good as new.

This is also the reason why Uncle Bamboo Carpenter uses natural lacquer for his fishing rods.

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

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-pong here, jumping up and down, of course A Yin couldn't sleep, the two of them were under the firelight, one knitting and the other tossing.

They didn't lie down to rest until everything was done.

No. 19 days.

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

The tabletop is too big, and it couldn't be put into the paint room yesterday. This one can only depend on God.

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

Li Junge took out everything and checked it. It was obvious that the bamboo silk tire was not cooked enough, so he continued to put it back.

The toothbrush comb problem is no longer a big deal.

But I dare not use it. This thing is in direct contact with the body. If it is not completely solidified, there will be many problems.

The rest are two pieces of wood. After inspection, Li Junge thinks that hemp paint is suitable for primer and coconut paint is suitable for polishing.

(End of this chapter)