When Zhuang Rui woke up the next day, it was already bright. The sunlight shining through the gaps in the curtains showed that it was a good day again.
After checking the time, it was already past nine in the morning. Zhuang Rui quickly got up and went to wash up. There were guests at home. He didn't even prepare breakfast. This was not the way to treat guests.
Opening the door, the lights in the living room had been turned off. Zhuang Rui stood on the second floor and saw that the two pieces of jadeite on the coffee table were still there, but Luo Jiang was no longer sitting on the sofa. He might have gone to bed.
Rui remembered that when he got up in the middle of the night last night, Luo Jiang was still busy there.
"Um?"
Zhuang Rui walked down the stairs and found someone lying on the sofa, holding a pencil in his hand. It was Luo Jiang or someone else.
Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly. This man was really crazy. He probably fell asleep because he couldn't hold on any longer. Zhuang Rui walked to the room, took out a blanket and covered him with Luo Jiang. Although the room had always been
Although the temperature is 27 degrees Celsius, you will still catch a cold when you fall asleep.
"Boss? I fell asleep?"
Just when Zhuang Rui put the blanket on Luo Jiang, Luo Jiang suddenly opened his eyes and woke up.
"Go to your room and rest first. The second room on the first floor is just for you. This month is still long, so there is no need to work so hard..."
Zhuang Rui saw Luo Jiang getting up from the sofa and took back the blanket. However, Luo Jiang's eyes were now bloodshot and red, which was a bit scary.
"It's okay. I'm used to it. I used to catch up with work and didn't sleep for three days. Now that I'm a little older, I actually fell asleep after staying up all night. Boss, is there anything to eat? I'm fine, but my stomach can't bear it.
Already."
After hearing what Luo Jiang said, Zhuang Rui also felt a little hungry. He couldn't wait to call to order a meal, so he went to the kitchen to boil water and cooked a few bags of instant noodles, then cracked two eggs into them and put them into two bowls.
It was brought out inside.
After Zhuang Rui finished eating instant noodles, he picked up the drawings scattered on the sofa. It must be said that Luo Jiang's painting foundation is really good. The sketch he drew on it with a pencil is extremely lifelike, and the jade shape on the drawing is very realistic.
Except for the different colors, the size and shape are exactly the same as the two pieces placed on the coffee table.
What surprised Zhuang Rui the most was that the bracelet looked like it was drawn with a compass. It was quite satisfactory. Anyway, if Zhuang Rui were to draw it, he would definitely draw the circle into an oval.
"Master Luo, the bracelets on this drawing seem to be different sizes?"
Upon closer inspection, Zhuang Rui discovered something wrong. There were five pairs of bracelets drawn on the drawing in his hand, but only two of the bracelets were the same size, while the other three were a little smaller one by one. If it weren't for the drawing,
Zhuang Rui really couldn't see it on a piece of paper.
"It's different. This piece of material can only produce five pairs of bracelets at most. The rest can be used to make small pendants, earrings and other accessories..."
After Luo Jiang finished eating the noodles, he felt much more energetic and put his eyes on the wool material again. This time he was observing the ice material.
"I see that the bracelets sold in the store are all about the same size."
When Zhuang Rui asked this question, he immediately regretted it. People's hands vary from big to small, and the bracelets made are naturally of different sizes. This question on his part was a bit idiotic.
Sure enough, Luo Jiang moved his eyes away from the ice material, glanced at Zhuang Rui strangely, and said: "They look similar, but if we compare them together, the sizes are still different. There are many types of bracelets.
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Generally, the inner circumference of a bracelet is 157-163 mm, and the inner diameter of the bracelet is 50-52 mm. This type is relatively small. Most of the bracelets sold in stores now have an inner circumference of 182-191 mm and an inner diameter of
Bracelets with an inner diameter of 58 to 61 mm, or above 61 mm, can be suitable for most people..."
Although Luo Jiang was surprised that Zhuang Rui, as an expert in jade appraisal, did not understand these basic knowledge, he still focused on the wool. After answering casually, he returned his eyes to the jadeite on the coffee table and picked it up.
Drawing board, I guess I need to design the pattern of ice seed material again.
Zhuang Rui was confused by what he heard. How did he know the specifications and classifications of bracelets? After listening to Luo Jiang's explanation, he stood up and put away the dishes with a guilty conscience.
On this day, Luo Jiang still didn't start carving jade, but kept sitting there designing patterns. Zhuang Rui was naturally responsible for the logistics, and he was responsible for making phone calls and ordering takeout.
Zhuang Rui has been very busy during this period. Now that he has some free time, he carefully reviewed the review materials given to him by Professor Meng. He will take the preliminary exam in January next year. Zhuang Rui does not want to fail to pass this test.
It wasn't until after ten o'clock in the evening that Luo Jiang's design work was completed. All the patterns of the two jade materials were drawn. According to Luo Jiang, the bracelets and pendants were both relatively simple in carving, and these two pieces of jade were made of relatively simple materials.
The colors are very uniform, so there is no need to worry about showing the most beautiful texture and color, so the progress is much faster.
However, if it were to be an ornament, I'm afraid it would take more than half a month to design and modify just the shape.
Zhuang Rui took a look and found that the piece of ice material could be used to carve out more than thirty bracelets. The remaining small items such as pendants and earrings could be carved into seven or eight pieces with the remaining jade material in the middle of the bracelet.
For ten pieces, the patterns have been drawn on Luo Jiang's drawings.
Only some pendants and earrings need to be inlaid with platinum or gold. Luo Jiang drew some necklace styles and the size of the inlays separately, and gave them to Zhuang Rui, asking him to go to Wu Jia to order them tomorrow. Although the quantity was quite large,
There are a total of thirty or forty pieces, but most of these metal products have ready-made molds and can be made very quickly. By the time Luo Jiang Zhuoyu is finished, they will basically be ready.
After doing these things, Luo Jiang did not force himself to start carving jade immediately. Instead, he went back to his room and took a deep sleep. It was not until about eight o'clock the next morning that he got up and prepared to start carving jade. All these things
A piece of wool must be broken down according to the drawing before he can start carving.
Before decomposing the jade material, Luo Jiang brought a basin of water to the garage, washed it carefully for several minutes, then wiped it clean with a towel, and put the piece of ice material on a jade cutting machine. He wanted to
Let's start with the heat first, and don't dare to break down that top-quality jadeite.
Zhuang Rui has read the manual of this jade cutting machine and knows that this is the most important machine equipment used in the process of jade processing. It mainly consists of a body, a transmission shaft and a grinding head. It is driven by an electric motor and the speed can be adjusted.
The tool is mounted on the spindle.
Now Luo Jiang is using a guillotine (small circular saw) installed on the spindle to cut the jade materials other than the black lines from the entire piece of material along the rough lines he drew on the piece of ice material.
When broken down, the big one is about the size of a thumb, while the small one is as fine as a bean. Obviously it can only be disposed of as waste, which is inevitable in the process of carving jade.
"This is called chiseling and thallium. It is mainly used to remove the useless parts according to the depth of the convex and concave parts..." Luo Jiang saw that Zhuang Rui looked attentively. After using guillotine and thallium to eliminate some excess jade material, he changed it to another one.
tool, and explained it smoothly to Zhuang Rui beside him.
As Luo Jiang explained, he was constantly changing the tools in his hands, including the bowl thallium used to spin the bowl, the large grinding thallium used to grind the bowl, the nail thallium that could be used to push against a flat surface, and the nail thallium that could be dug in. Luo Jiang
It was like wearing a flower in his hand, and the speed of replacement dazzled Zhuang Rui, who couldn't tell which tool did what.
These tools with strange shapes and complex functions seemed to have spirituality in Luo Jiang's hands, shuttling back and forth between Luo Jiang's palm and the jade material. Zhuang Rui stood aside and looked at it for a while, observing every bit of it.
Not coming out.
The old saying is indeed true: insiders watch the door, laymen watch the excitement, the role Boss Zhuang can play now is nothing more than passing tea and towels.
With advanced equipment and Luo Jiang's exquisite craftsmanship, the first ice-type red jade bracelet appeared in front of Zhuang Rui in more than an hour. However, now this bracelet is just a rough, round shape.
There are irregular and thorny jade fragments everywhere on the surface, and it is necessary to use thallium and grinding to grind away the remaining materials.
This process is very fast. After seven or eight minutes, the bracelet that has become very smooth fell into Zhuang Rui's hand, but the color is slightly dull. According to Luo Jiang's introduction, the bracelet is still an embryo and will be processed later.
After hooking, withdrawing, tucking, butting and other processes, the finished product is finally polished.
If you are carving pendants, the process is even more complicated. In order to make them accurate, regular, neat and smooth, you have to do things like stacking, rolling, making petals on some pendants and the edges of characters' clothes float, punching holes, hollowing out, and movable
Ring enamel and other processes.
However, what Luo Jiang has to do now is to make all the rough bracelets, and carry out subsequent processing and polishing in a unified manner. So after gathering the scraps scattered on the ground, Luo Jiang started to disassemble the second bracelet.
After Zhuang Rui saw the release of the second ice-type red jade bracelet, he found that he could not learn anything useful from it, so he simply turned around, took a book, and went to the pavilion in the garden to read.
In the next few days, Zhuang Rui almost stayed at home except for communicating with the outside world by phone. He also ordered takeout for meals every day. Zhuang Min often came to the villa to cook meals in the first few days, but Zhao Guodong was very busy during this time.
, she needed to run in both directions, and after Zhuang Rui persuaded her several times, she rarely came to the villa.
A week later, Luo Jiang finally finished making the rough bracelets. Dozens of bracelets with a slightly dull luster were neatly placed on a table covered with white velvet cloth in the garage.
