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Chapter 1796 Bronze art, baked in the furnace

After seeing the local museum and the process of making bronzes, Chen Wenzhe also wanted to see for himself how they made old bronzes.

Of course, this does not require going back to see it, but wanting to see it with my own eyes.

Obviously, this hope will not be satisfied soon.

Although I know it is impossible to see it with my own eyes, but I want to try my best when I come here.

Walking in the village, on both sides of the nearly one-kilometer-long street entering the village, in addition to the common rural farmyards in the north, you can also see more than a dozen shops facing the street that manufacture bronze wares.

This is the largest production base of antique bronze wares in the country. There are 500 people in the village and more than 900 households.

What can be seen on the street is only some shops, and there are more family workshops in the village, and farmers make bronze wares in their own homes.

It can also be seen from this that there is fierce competition in the village.

Although the street is quiet on the surface, it implies competition just like the workshops behind.

Chen Wenzhe noticed this very quickly, so can he be a big wholesaler?
In fact, he really likes some of the works here, and if possible, he doesn't mind ordering a batch at a high price.

And with this decision, the next thing became very interesting. He really didn't expect that the competition here would be so fierce that it would tear each other down.

This is also impossible, because there are currently one or two hundred bronze workshops in Yanjian Village.

Therefore, sometimes products are also sold abroad as craft gifts, but usually they are sold directly to domestic distributors.

Whenever sellers or corporate customers from other places come here to wholesale or order bronze wares, there will be a price war between local family workshops.

As long as there is no loss, in order to get customers, the price is lower than the other.

Some stores even know that a certain customer has already negotiated a price with other stores, and they will still pry the customer over at a lower price.

Since there is no contract between the two parties, in the end it is often the seller who can't do it because the bid is too low, which disrupts the business.

As for the buyer, some customers are short on time and have high requirements, so they can't do it here, and in the end they have to buy it at a high price from a gift company.

In this way, not only the customers suffered losses, but also the merchants in Yanjian Village also lost their credibility.Fang Changwei believes that this is because "human consciousness is not good enough".

After shopping for a long time, Chen Wenzhe learned that there are only three or four companies in Yanjian Village that have formal procedures.

Therefore, for many workshop-type farmers, excluding the cost of production raw materials, they can make money as long as they sell.

Therefore, in the square inch of Yanjian Village, it is very common for farmers to bid with each other.

The small workshops run by these villagers have been affected by the market environment since 2007, and the sales in the stores have not been good.

Due to the fall in the price of copper, the price of the bronze wares that I had previously hoarded also fell, and I lost money in 2008.

In fact, a finished bronze ware that costs 90 yuan can often be sold for an extra ten yuan.

And such a product can sell at least two or three hundred yuan in the retail market.

Such meager profits, once the price of copper raw materials fluctuated, causing the price of bronze wares to drop, would be enough to eat up the profits of some small workshops.

So they compete with each other here, and they can't sell at a high price.

But if you go to Yangluo, there are only a few shops, and you can sell high.

Many people also understand that the profits from such sales are too small, and they have tried to open sales channels in other provinces before.

However, due to the high cost of opening a store and the lack of operating experience, they switched to the business model of opening a store at home.

In fact, even several large local companies have not established more sales channels due to the pressure of more market competition and changing demand when going global, and still focus on production and processing.

Generally, farmers who can manage well are mom-and-pop shops.

In such stores, the husband often contacts customers in other places, and establishes long-term business relationships with some retailers or wholesalers in small commodity markets in some cities.

Due to the better product shape and quality, although it is also affected by the shrinking market.

But the current sales situation is better than in 2008.

Therefore, many old customers who have been here have ordered imitation bronzes from these small businesses through the Internet.

This is also the main reason why the competition here is so fierce. In fact, only three or five people can imitate bronze wares here.

I saw a shop called "Xia, Shang and Zhou Bronze Art".

This is a street shop run by an obvious farmer.

Walking into the front hall of more than 20 square meters, the display racks around, the desk in the middle, and even the ground are full of finished bronzes.

At the moment, there are two people in the store at the back door of the front hall, mixing the paraffin wax needed to make bronze.

And a small courtyard behind the door is their "factory" for making bronze wares.

Here they are casting bronzes using the lost wax method.

To make bronze ware, you must first imitate the real object or pictures, and make molds and wax models.

This wax model is made of paraffin raw materials and is also the final appearance of the product.

Therefore, the shape and fineness of the wax model are very important.

Then smear thick gypsum mud on the outside of the wax model, the wax model is wrapped, and then baked in the oven.

During this process, the paraffin wax will slowly melt and be absorbed by the hardened plaster outside, thus forming a shaped cavity inside the plaster.

The last step is to pour molten copper, aluminum, tin and other metal liquids into the holes left in the plaster.

After cooling, the excess parts are sawn off and polished to form bronze ware.

In addition, in order to present the aesthetic effect of the unearthed bronzes, physical or chemical methods can also be used to age the bronze surface, and finally form a turquoise bronze appearance.

In this way, making bronzes is not complicated.

In this courtyard, an iron pot, gypsum, copper melting furnace, paraffin wax, etc. are the main tools for making bronzes.

The owner's family of three is all the workers.

In other words, this family of three people is a typical family workshop in Yanjian Village.

On Bronze Ware Street in Yanjian Village, a workshop with three people like this is relatively small, and there are usually four or five people in a family workshop.

Some larger family workshops have to hire a few more workers.

It's just that it's the same everywhere, and the superb craftsmanship is not passed on to the outside world.

In this Yanjian village, although almost every farmer can make bronze wares independently.

However, due to the differences in craftsmanship and tools of each family, the products produced are always of different levels.

The wax model is the key to the beauty of the bronze ware. The production of the wax model requires an initial original model, which is usually artificially carved out of paraffin wax in imitation of the ancient bronze ware.

(End of this chapter)