After the woodworking lathe was completed, Qin Zhao began to operate the lathe in front of all the woodworkers.

Because of his successful recruitment of two female seamstresses, Qin Yuanhao had some prestige among the team without skills. This time he got the position to help Qin Zhao drive the wooden lathe. He went up and shook the lathe hard according to Qin Zhao's request, and turned the log clamped on the lathe desperately.

Qin Yuanhao's shaking large gears drove the pinion gears on the lathe, and soon the lathe reached a high speed of 500 revolutions per minute.

The log is an ordinary fir tree with the bark on it still. If it is handed over to the carpenter, it will take countless cuts to make this log into a column, which will be exhausted. If it is made into a square stick, it also requires careful sawing, shaving, and polishing.

However, with woodworking lathes, the efficiency is dozens of times that of the original one.

Qin Zhao held up a thick Su Gang turning knife and said loudly: "You can see clearly!"

Qin Zhao slowly leaned over toward the log, and only a harsh cracking sound was heard, and countless log barks flew out, splashing Qin Zhao all over.

Qin Zhao didn't care and gently swung the position of the turning tool on the lathe and cut the bark bit by bit.

Soon, the bark of the entire log was cut off by a turning knife, and the log turned into a round columnar wooden strip.

Qin Zhao took off the turning knife, asked Qin Yuanhao to stop the lathe, and said with a smile: "How is it?"

Everyone quickly looked at the wooden strips and saw what the wooden strips processed from the "lathe" looked like.

To everyone's surprise, the surface of the processed wooden strips is very smooth and without any burrs, just like a master carpenter who has used a plane to finish it. It may take an hour to get the effect manually, and it may take one hour to saw the plane in the woodworking lathe, including the time to set up the logs and start the machine, the total time from front to back is not more than fifty breaths.

In the past, carpenters got a log, and they used a saw to process it hard, and used a wooden stick with a quadrilateral cross-section. Not to mention the waste of materials, it would take a quarter of an hour to saw a stool foot and remove the burrs.

The efficiency has been improved by more than ten times.

The carpenters were stunned and exclaimed.

They couldn't speak for a long time.

After a long time, after Qin Zhao leisurely processed another sofa stool foot for another minute, the carpenters finally realized from the shock.

A carpenter with big arms and wide shoulders came up and touched the woodworking lathe again, shook his head and said, "Oh my God! I have been learning carpenter for more than 20 years. I always feel that I have some tricks of peeling wood. How could I know that when Brother Zhao took out this machine, all the tricks of peeling wood that I had been studying for over ten years were useless."

"Heaven and earth have a conscience. In the future, should I cry or laugh with such a machine to peel the wooden vase?"

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

This is the machine that the master of the wood-cutting master encountered a machine that smashed his job.

When everyone outside the carpenter said this, laughed.

Another thin carpenter also came up and looked at the woodworking lathe in awe. As he looked, he actually started to cry.

"This machine is really sharp, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhao Ge'er is Lu Ban's life. I'm afraid this will not last long. The woodworking skills I have learned for more than ten years are useless! Wuwuwu, Zhao Ge'er can invent a machine at will, and the job I can get rid of."

The carpenter in her thirties became more and more sad as she cried. Later, she burst into tears and squatted on the ground in frustration.

The other helpers looked at each other and burst into laughter again.

Qin Zhao's machine is easy to use, so Qin's business can make a lot of money. When Qin's business expands, their status will naturally rise. They really don't understand the sorrow of these carpenters.

Even the carpenters attracted by Zheng Chenggong were shocked, and their eyes gradually turned red. No matter who it was, they suddenly realized that the technology that he had learned for more than ten or even decades became insignificant, and they were very frustrated.

The woodworking in this era is different from the woodworking in later generations. The woodworking in this era learned a lot of techniques for rough processing of wood. These techniques were efficiently completed by machinery in later generations. The carpenters in later generations focused their energy on handling craftsmanship details that the machine could not handle, which was very different from the situation in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, carpenters in later generations could coexist with industrial machinery. When carpenters in the Ming Dynasty saw Qin Zhao's lathe, they felt that they had been smashed to their jobs.

Each of them was very sad, and several people even shed tears, but they couldn't help but bend down and look at Qin Zhao's lathe carefully.

"Owner, how does this 'lare' turn so fast, how do this joint part be made?"

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "The joints are made of bearings and gears. But you don't have to worry about how to make bearings. Just learn to use this lathe!" After a pause, he said, "Don't think that craftsmanship has become useless. Your craftsmanship can still be used on fine carving wood utensils in the future. You still need to process craftsmanship and finishing of wood furniture."

"Even carpenters who are not good at finishing processing can have a full meal in my Qin business. No matter when, as long as you don't make big mistakes, you will have a monthly salary of two taels of silver and a meal and accommodation. You just need to learn how to operate the lathe and have a strong rice bowl."

Hearing Qin Zhao's words, the carpenters regained hope.

The craftsmanship and fine processing of wooden furniture sounds good. Although people are not very good at carving skills now, as long as they practice diligently, they can still master it slowly based on their foundation.

If it really doesn't work, there is still a strong job.

The thin carpenter suddenly stood up from the ground, came to the front of the carpenter lathe and wiped tears, and said, "Boss, I learned! I was the first to learn how to operate this carpenter lathe. If you ask someone to teach me how to use this lathe, I will learn how to use it in the future, so I will make round columns for the sofa for the boss day and night."

This thin carpenter felt that he did not have the ability to learn carving and carpentry, so he put his hope of eating on the lathe.

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "It is the fastest to use this lathe to peel the bark. The round wood that is cut depends on the size. If it is a large piece of log, we can also saw the processed log into four sofa stool feet, so that our efficiency will be higher."

"The most important thing about the soft stools we make is to ensure quality. As for whether the stool feet are semi-circular or round, they can be done. Anyway, if you have a pack of cloth on the outside, you can only see the foot of the stool feet below."

Several carpenters were very careful when they heard this, wiping their tears while remembering every word from Qin Zhao.

The last few carpenters couldn't stand the shock in their hearts and said, "Is the boss reincarnated by Lu Ban?"

"In this way, we, a carpenter who was originally understaffed, became the most time-consuming group!"

"The boss must be the reincarnation of Lu Ban, otherwise how could he do such a machine."

"Will the boss make wooden ox and flowing horses?"

Listening to the carpenters' irrelevant guessing, Qin Zhao rolled his eyes. The wooden ox and horse are a myth, equivalent to a perpetual motion machine, how can humans make it?

Seeing Qin Zhao rolling his eyes, the workers gathered around the woodworking lathe burst into laughter again.
Chapter completed!