God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1315 Mo Yu
In the work of jade carving, laying hands is not an easy job.

For example: grinding and polishing are also two processes, but the overall process of jade carving and wood carving is not at the same level of difficulty. Grinding and polishing in jade carving are more difficult, more demanding, and even more physically demanding. High, the average novice really can't do it.

Moreover, the material of the wood carving is relatively cheap, if it is accidentally worn out, just re-carve one, it is nothing more than a waste of time, and there is not much economic loss.

But making jade carvings is quite different. The price of jade materials is not low. Even if it is a medium-grade material, the market price is much higher than that of wood. Hundreds of thousands of millions or even more.

Therefore, it is really not an easy job to start in the jade carving process.

Of course, Xu Jingxing would not let the inexperienced Li Lingyu directly start the grinding or polishing process. After all, these two processes are not only relatively difficult, but also play a decisive role in the appearance of the finished jade product. Grinding and polishing If the process is done well, the appearance of the jade can be raised to a higher level.On the contrary, if the grinding and polishing process is not done well, no matter how good the material is, no matter how good the carving is, it will make the finished product look distorted and blurred.

No way, this is the characteristic of jade.

If it is wood, even if it is a semi-finished product that has not been polished and polished, it will look very good. There are even some woodcarvers who specialize in making such semi-finished products. What they pursue is the rough and primitive carving style. You can also see the content of the engraving clearly.

But jade is different. Jade is relatively weak in artistic expression and has a certain transparency effect. Slightly thinner and shallower lines and patterns will become very blurred in visual effect. The surface presents a unique mirror effect, so the jade looks like a group of blurred lumps.

There are many such low-grade finished jade articles in the market now. They are more common in shopping malls and hypermarkets. Most of them are simple-made Bodhisattva Buddha pendants and ornaments of various images. You don’t know these objects in your hand. What it carves has to be studied carefully to figure out what it looks like.

Why?The problem lies in the last two processes, the polishing is not clean, and the polishing is not thorough. In addition, these objects are all simple carving techniques of bas-relief. Against the background of the translucent and semi-mirror effect of jade, , the light will become very scattered, and the visual effect will naturally be extremely poor, and it will become a grotesque chaos in the eyes.

Therefore, when buying jade, if you encounter objects that cannot be clearly identified at the first time, then don’t think about it. There is a 90.00% probability that they are shoddy and inferior products, and you will suffer no matter how cheap the price is.

Therefore, he did not directly arrange for Li Lingyu to do the grinding and polishing process, but asked her to help draw the picture, one is to transfer his ready-made design to the jade material, and the other is to let her use her creative ability at random, After all, he is also a professional art student, so he still has a little original ability.

Another job is to ask her to help cut the jade, which is to cut off the stone skin on the surface of the jade.

Of course, it is limited to the stone skin, because the stone skin is made of stone, and it is an impurity that is completely unusable. If it is sugar skin, he is reluctant to cut it off, because for Hetian jade, the sugar skin is not only an impurity, but it can be used Well, instead, it is a natural color skin, which can be an excellent embellishment in the finished product.

After all, Hetian jade is mostly made of white materials. If you can embellish a few spots or one or two pieces of sugar-colored leather shells on the milky white finished product, it will look very good in color tone, and the visual effect will be more comfortable. The finishing touch.

So what is left to Li Lingyu is physical work, and it is a relatively dangerous kind. After all, if you have to deal with a cutting machine, you will cut your fingers if you are not careful, especially when cutting small seeds. It's even more dangerous.

Of course, danger is relative. It is enough to be careful and patient in this kind of work. Don’t distract yourself while working. Basically, accidents will happen. Those who have accidents are those who are distracted and reckless when working. A careless person has nothing to do with whether he is a novice or not.

Because of this, Li Lingyu got started very quickly. After all, this girl has good physical fitness and is careful. It is easy to do this kind of work.

He just stopped him when he was about to put on gloves before he started.

The girl was a little bit wronged at the time: "Master, don't you know how important it is for a girl to have a pair of beautiful and flawless hands? I can't bear to let calluses grow on my little hands."

"Hehe, calluses and fingers, you can choose one."

"why?"

"Remember, when operating these processing machines, it is best to wear a hat when you roll up your long hair, and you must never wear gloves," he explained very seriously: "Wearing a hat can prevent your hair from getting caught In the machine, you can’t wear gloves because once the gloves are entangled, you have no chance to escape, and the gloves will affect the feel, which is not good for fine operations.”

Li Lingyu stuck out her tongue when she heard the words, "Master, I remember," she said, throwing away the gloves, and twisted the ponytail behind her head twice to make a bun, and then turned around Circle asked: "How is it?"

"It's okay, let's start working," he waved his hand, signaling Li Lingyu to go to work.

Needless to say, the girls from the countryside are really good at their work. Li Lingyu quickly found the feeling that she could wipe off the stone skin on the surface of the jade without hurting the jade flesh, but it was a little slower.

But this is the way it is. No matter who does it, the efficiency is about the same. After all, there is only one way to slowly grind it off with a grinding wheel. Even if Xu Jingxing opened it, it is impossible to peel off the stone skin outside the jade like peeling an orange. , also use a grinding wheel to grind.

That is to say, the girl Li Lingyu really wants to learn something and doesn't mind doing this kind of hard work. If it is a more delicate girl, or even a boy, she may not be willing to do this kind of unskilled hard work.

From this point of view, Xu Jingxing was really a harsh master, he really used his apprentices as coolies, and he seemed to want to learn a craft and do odd jobs for three years first.

Of course, compared with those masters in the old society, he is already quite generous.You know, in the old society, if you want to learn crafts, it is common for you to carry the urinal, wash your feet, wash your clothes, and clean up your hygiene. It is not too much to say that you can work directly under the master and participate in serious work Among them, those are the benefits that apprentices who have been through for several years can only enjoy.

Looking at it this way, An Xin and Li Lingyu were also very lucky to have met such a master as Xu Jingxing who devoted himself to teaching them. Although it was a bit hard and tiring, what they learned must be solid and good things.

The most important thing is that the path he taught as a master is correct, and he will definitely be able to walk out a bright road, which is very rare no matter in ancient times or in modern times.

Now studying in school, which teacher will tell you so much?Isn't it all down to finishing the job?Even if they are admitted to graduate students or even doctoral students, the tutors seldom try their best to help students make up for their shortcomings and point out the direction like Xu Jingxing. Most of them still have to explore by themselves.

Therefore, meeting a good teacher or master can completely change your life.

Of course, it is very important for students and apprentices to understand the master's good intentions. If the apprentice is a heartless bastard, then the master's hard work is useless.This is why the masters in the old society had to undergo a rigorous test before accepting apprentices, because they really couldn't afford to lose. If they accidentally accepted a jerk apprentice, their whole life's hard work might be in vain.

Fortunately, Xu Jingxing was quite accurate in seeing people, and he was also lucky. The two apprentices he recruited were very good. Regardless of other aspects, they would definitely not be white-eyed wolves.

What's more, the personalities and abilities displayed by the two people are not bad.

So he was not dissatisfied.

The two masters and apprentices worked in the workshop for a long time, and they cut out hundreds of pieces of seed material with stone skin. Most of the materials are of high quality, mostly high-grade white jade, and the rest are sheep. Fat jade, only a small part is variegated jade and waste.

Of course, it is not to say that variegated jade is not good, but the reason for the formation of variegated jade is more special than that of white jade, so the quality of variegated jade is generally not high.

But there are also some variegated jades with very pure texture and high quality. Such jade materials are also popular in the market, and the market price is even higher, but they are a minority after all. Most of the variegated jades are not How pure.

He and Li Lingyu cut hundreds of pieces of material, and there were more than ten pieces of variegated jade, but only two pieces were of high quality, and the remaining few pieces could only reach the level of middle-grade materials.

Those two pieces of variegated jade are black jade, which look similar to coal after being cut open, but the light color exposed is much stronger than that of coal, it is the kind of black and bright luster, and the feel is similar to ordinary Hetian jade , but the visual effect is much better than white Hetian jade, a bit like obsidian.

One of the two black jade pieces is only the size of a ping-pong ball, while the other is the size of a fist.

Although he still doesn't know how to carve it, he still puts these two pieces of material in a more conspicuous place on the workbench, so as not to forget their existence.

In other words, he intends to carve these two pieces of black jade carefully. After all, such good quality black jade is not very common, and it is worth carving carefully. I believe that some people will like this color.

At noon, Jin Xiaoxiao came back for dinner. Although she was a little unhappy to see Li Lingyu, she didn't say anything.

Li Lingyu yelled one after another as if she didn't notice anything, very attentive.

(End of this chapter)