Chapter 404: Selection process!

For example, Huang Tingjian, a very famous calligrapher, believes that among the four treasures of the study, the most difficult one is the making of brushes.

The difficulty of making brushes mainly focuses on several aspects:

First of all, it is the selection of vellus hair, mainly how to achieve it accurately and delicately, that is, what type of vellus hair, length and softness and other aspects.

Secondly, there is the production of the pen refill, that is, the position of the brush head in the finished product we see. It mainly needs to meet four standards, namely: sharp, even, round, and healthy.

As the saying goes, even the gods can't touch the hair of a brush.

In other words, the process of making brushes can be grasped very accurately.

"Boss, we are back!"

"Look at it, I don't know what kind of bamboo these are that meet the standards you mentioned!"

Just when Xu Wen was thinking about the general steps of making brushes, Hou Da and the others came over with a great harvest.

"boom!"

Immediately afterwards, countless bamboos were thrown directly into the camp as if they were free of charge.

"Have you cut down all the bamboo in the forest?"

Looking at the bamboos all over the ground, Xu Wen asked in disbelief.

To be honest, before Hou Da and the others set out to complete this task, Xu Wen had already given many instructions on what kind of bamboo was needed to make the brushes.

"Boss, don't be angry first. Have you forgotten the standards you mentioned?"

"And, in order to save time, we simply cut some bamboos in various states and brought them back!"

When he said this again, Hou Da behaved like a very innocent little monkey, still scratching his scalp.

"You are saving time and effort, but you are making me suffer!"

As for what Hou Da and his group of monkeys did, Xu Wen could only be a mute and eat Coptis chinensis, unable to express his suffering.

"Forget it, let's start with the steps of choosing the pen holder!"

Looking at the bamboos all over the ground, and the somewhat ashamed expressions of Hou Da and other monkeys, Xu Wen could only accept his fate helplessly.

"And don't be idle, let's choose the right bamboo together according to the standards I will talk about later!"

After saying this, Xu Wen began to look at these bamboos of different shapes.

The process of selecting pen barrels that Xu Wen talks about is actually called the "selection process" in the professional field.

The so-called tube selection process is the process of carefully selecting the pen barrel or barrel.

"First of all, we need to exclude those bamboos that are cracked, or have borers, withered skin, poor color, and uneven thickness overall!"

After saying this, the entire group of monkeys seemed to be playing a "look in a row" game, constantly picking out ideas that met these criteria.

The reason why these bamboos cannot be the best choice for pen holders is mainly because these conditions will affect the life of the brush on the one hand, and secondly, they will also have some impact on the feeling of holding it.

"Secondly, we need to choose bamboo that is about the same thickness as our pencils, and the overall top and bottom are more coordinated!"

"These bamboos are the material we can eventually use to make pen barrels!"

The standard Xu Wen mentioned is just a simplification of a complete requirement.

In the actual production of brushes, the selection of the pen tube should be a relatively late step.

In addition to the relatively low-quality bamboo that Xu Wen just mentioned that cannot be used to make pen holders.

There are corresponding requirements for the pen barrel's roundness, tube diameter, tube length and even straightness.

It can be said that the task of selecting the pen holder is the easiest part of the entire brush making process.

However, just this easiest part took the entire monkey group nearly two hours.

If Xu Wen did this work entirely by himself, I'm afraid a whole day wouldn't be enough.

"Boss, are these the bamboos that can finally be used?"

Looking at the few bamboos on the ground, Hou Da seemed to have suffered a heavy blow and asked a little mentally.

You know, if Hou Da and his team brought back a hundred bamboos at that time.

Well, after a series of careful selection, less than 10% of the quantity survived.

The remaining 90% are completely unusable, but they can still make sufficient contributions to the monkey group's smelting business.

"What do you think?"

"Fortunately, the quantity of bamboos you brought back is very large."

"If not, I'm afraid your team will have to go back to the forest again!"

Xu Wen glanced at Hou Da helplessly, but fortunately, they did not need to spend more time to complete it a second time.

"Okay, the next step is to process the hair of these animals!"

After choosing the pen holder, Xu Wen didn't want to waste a while throwing it away, so he directly said to the monkeys.

You know, Xu Wen now has a huge mystery in his heart, waiting for him to solve it.

"Boss, is it possible that these hairs cannot be used directly?"

After hearing Xu Wen's words, the monkeys asked with some doubts.

Originally, they thought that after collecting these hairs, they could make brushes directly.

However, according to the subtext in Xu Wen's words just now, it seems that things are not as scissor-like as they imagined.

"Of course not!"

"You already know that in the entire process of making brushes, the most difficult thing is making these vellus hairs!"

"If we simply classify the entire process, it can be roughly divided into three steps."

"First, it is to deal with the hair; second, it is the work of selecting the pen tube that we have just completed; finally, it is the simple decoration and final combination!"

"If we describe the degree of difficulty, in a complete production process, the proportion of vellus hair processing will probably be 60%, and the remaining two steps will each occupy 20%!"

After saying this, Xu Wen was surprised to find that these little monkeys looked at him with incredible eyes.

The idiom "unbelievable" was expressed vividly in their expressions!
Chapter completed!