veteran legend

"Take a look first. This time you observe the carving. There are some differences between commercial carving and the art carving you have learned. I will give you a suggestion. Find some stones with similar density and practice." Chu Naturally, Yan would not start working on this dagger right now. He still had many more important things to do. After all, the [-]kg mammoth sling was quietly placed on a shelf beside him.

"Okay, but Brother Chu, I think the layout of your second floor looks like a blacksmith's shop. Are you going to build something?" Su Yinan is a student of carving, and forging is a technical activity like carving. She has a good understanding of the types of iron, of course, she doesn't like blacksmithing, understanding this is purely a personal preference.

Su Yinan said that he put the material of the customer who made the first custom-made sculpture for everything on the side of the partition shelf specially set up for carving. Except for the layout of 70.00% of the second floor which is used for blacksmithing, in the In the part near the stairs, there is a space of about [-] square meters specially isolated as a sculpture studio.

"Well, you guessed it right, well, let's go down first, you come to work here, you must introduce your colleagues to you formally." Chu Yan walked downstairs with a smile, and Su Yinan carved the drawings After the platform was paved, they also went downstairs.

Downstairs, Fan Xianghan and Wang Lan were sitting at the reception desk looking at the computer, and they didn't have much reaction to Su Yinan's arrival.

"You two stop your work first, let me introduce you, this is Su Yinan, from now on, she is a sculptor who can carve everything, the three of you will cooperate well in the future, okay , you guys chat first, I’ll go upstairs first, and I’ll treat you to KFC at noon.” Chu Yan said with a smile, turned around and walked upstairs, and Wang Lan, Fan Xianghan and Su Yinan, three girls of similar age, chatted quickly. Together, as for the content of the chat, this is not what Chu Yan cares about. He has more important things to do now.

It is definitely something that Chu Yan has been looking forward to for a long time. Compared with the original carbon stove, it is relatively troublesome to start a fire, and it will take a long time, and a brand new stove that has never been fired will take several hours. It takes an hour to adapt to the burning of the fire, so after calculating the time, if the fire is lit now, it should be able to fully enter the state at night.

The way of lighting a fire in a traditional furnace is also very traditional. From the initial soft material to hard wood to the final coal, the coke and pine carbon used in the final forging need to be used step by step, so when Chu Yan raised the fire to After getting up and putting in the coals for lighting the fire, he stopped what he was doing and looked at the time, it was time to eat.

He went downstairs, locked the door, and drove the three beautiful clerks to the nearest KFC to the Antique City, and then ate a junk food meal with his belly open before returning to the store.

As the time passed, the temperature of the forging furnace on the second floor gradually stabilized. It was no longer elusive. Seeing that the furnace had basically entered the state, Chu Yan raised his hand to check the time. , it was six o'clock in the evening, and it was time for the shop assistants to get off work. Of course, there was another very important thing, that is, Chu Yan seemed to have promised Mo Xiyao that she would eat lightly.

After weighing it over and over again, Chu Yan finally chose to build a section of Damascus steel cable to find the feel. After all, the [-]-kilogram mammoth sling is actually only five sections of more than one meter long. Therefore, materials cannot be wasted, but Chu Yan Yan must first find the peak state of forging, so practice has become a must.

Fortunately, a section of steel cable about one meter long can be cut into four pieces for later use, so Chu Yan doesn't have to worry too much about the material. Anyway, he only needs one piece of work to participate in the Chicago Knife Show.

After ordering Fan Xianghan and the three to get off work, Chu Yan locked the store door from the inside, then went to the second floor and put on thick work clothes, and then started the preparations before forging.

A mammoth sling with a diameter of 32 mm was removed from the material table, and then cut into four sections of about 25 cm. One section was picked up and placed on the forging table aside, and the remaining three sections were put aside for later use.

Although this mammoth sling is an unused steel cable, Chu Yan still chose to treat it as a used steel cable, because the cut steel cable will loosen soon, so Chu Yan first The only thing is to weld the two ends of the cable.

But before welding, there is one more thing to do, that is to completely infiltrate the kerosene into this section of steel cable, and then ignite the fire. The purpose of this is to soften the impurities attached to the inside of the steel cable in the first step. Remove it, and it will save a lot of effort when forging.

During the period of time when the oil and impurities infiltrated into the steel cable were removed by heating, Chu Yan took out the vise, board and forging agent he had prepared, and was ready to officially start work!

After brushing away the impurities with an iron brush, apply the forging agent again. After the forging agent has completely penetrated, repeat the whole process of heating and brushing to remove impurities. After three consecutive times, the most basic preparation work before forging is complete! !

"Okay, let's start!" Looking at the heavy sling cable in front of him, Chu Yan's body instantly entered a very relaxed state. This is the last time to adjust his state before forging, and the real knife will be performed next. The real gun is forged.

Put the steel cable into the furnace to heat up, until the steel cable completely turned into a beautiful orange color, then raised the hammer, put the steel cable on the corner of the anvil, and then smashed it down with a hammer! !

"Ding!!" The moment the first hammer fell, sparks shot out from the top of the steel cable, and Chu Yan's body instantly found the feeling that made him extremely hot, waving the hammer with his arms one after another. After more than a dozen hammers, Chu Yan dripped the forging agent on the side onto the welded part, until the radius of the end became about one-third of the original, and the sound of Chu Yan's falling hammer came A few changes were made, followed by flipping the cable ninety degrees and hammering the cable into a square.

During this period, Chu Yan's iron brush has been brushing the impurities that emerged from the forging, and the impurities must be completely removed. These impurities are the most important hidden danger to avoid cracks in the blade in the future. After doing all this , Chu Yan dripped the forging agent on the steel cable again, and then put it into the furnace!

After forging many times in succession, Chu Yan put the steel cable on the vise, and firmly clamped the front end, and fixed the other section with a wrench, and then the most important step was to rotate the steel cable. During the process, Chu Yan's speed has been controlled very slowly. If the speed is too fast, the steel cable may be broken, so the speed and the temperature of the steel cable must be well controlled.

Six times, Chu Yan spun the steel cable in his hand six times, and the oxide skin on the surface was constantly falling off. Watching the steel cable slowly take shape in his hands, the familiar feeling in Chu Yan's heart was also felt. Come back bit by bit! !

"Punching machine, it's time for you to appear on the stage, buddy!" Take out the steel cable that has reached the temperature in the furnace and put it into the punching machine, and then mold and press this section of steel cable into a square. Of course, this process is not done once. Many times, the amount of pressing each time is very small, and the complete forging of this piece of Damascus steel can only be completed after repeated times.

The stamping process also required continuous dripping of forging agent and removal of impurities. After nearly an hour of hard work, a section of mammoth sling finally turned into a steel material without any trace of steel cable in front of Chu Yan. Of course, there is also the credit of the grinder. After all, grinding is an important step to smooth the surface of the steel and prevent cracks in the blade body.

In short, a piece of Damascus steel was finally fully formed in Chu Yan's hands!

At the same time, the phone that Chu Yan put aside also rang, and he put the formed Damascus steel aside to cool down slowly in the sand transported back from Xizang. Chu Yan picked up the phone, and the caller ID It was very clear that it was Mo Xiyao!

Just after pressing the answer button, Mo Xiyao's playful voice reached Chu Yan's ears!

"Chu Yan, do you want to release my pigeons?"