Chapter 142 Assembly
Chapter 142 Assembly
"Assembly is a big project." Gong Zhou said in a relaxed tone, but there was no trace of lightness in his words.
Everyone saw him open the lid of the box and take out the pot body that was sealed on all four sides, and at the same time he took out the cart that had been put aside for a long time.
"There is no mouth on this pot right now. Before we officially open it, we have to carefully determine the position of the spout and mark it."
"Hey... For a Xishi teapot, the spout should be right here. OK, let's use a fine needle to gently scratch the surface along the bottom of the spout to mark a range... Then we can officially open it."
"We need to pay attention to the opening, because we put on two layers of mouth pieces, and the edge of the lid should be stuck on the rim." Gong Zhou dragged the body of the pot, supporting himself with his hands and gesticulating.
"So when we open the pot, we usually open the top layer of the lid a little wider, and the bottom layer of the mouth should be opened a little smaller than the lid by two circles, just enough to allow the poke hole to move in and out freely."
"This way, the mouth of the teapot will form a small depression, which can hold the lid well, making the lid and the entire teapot look integrated, making the shape of the teapot more complete... But when cutting, you need to pay more attention to the strength and measure."
"However, the Xishi pot we made today has a cut-off lid. This type of pot lid does not require a small edge. The openings of the upper and lower layers of the mouth are the same size, as long as the mouth can pass freely. But in order to demonstrate different production techniques to you, I will still open the mouth of our pot according to the upper and lower opening method today."
"——So, what we need to open first is the lid. Don't be too harsh when you do it. If you cut off the mouth piece at the bottom, it will be a disaster for the new style of the pot. The pot body will have to be redone."
"Like this - come on, Comrade Xiao Xu, the three of you can come closer and take a closer look. Even though we have cut off the mouth flap, is the lower part of the mouth piece still intact? There is no trace of cutting at all."
Gong Zhou said as he beckoned the girls to come forward and look at the pot in his hand.
Xu Yichi and the others were startled when they heard this, and they stretched their heads in a hurry. The pot body held in Gong Zhou's palm had indeed had its lid opened, and there was not a single scratch on the mouth piece underneath.
"How amazing!" Xu Yichi exclaimed softly, covering his face.
In fact, before coming to Jiangsu Province, she also did some homework related to purple clay teapot making on the Internet in advance, but the feeling of watching the craftsmen in the video carving a lid one by one was not quite the same as the feeling of seeing Gong Zhou easily make a purple clay teapot - some things, just watching the video probably won’t make much of a feeling, only when you really see it with your own eyes, you will know how profound the foundation is and how amazing the skills are [beep——]!
"The mouth piece below is actually not damaged at all... Senior Gong Zhou, how did you do this?" With permission, Xu Dazhao picked up the purple clay cover that Gong Zhou had opened and thrown aside. After observing it for a while, he couldn't help but marvel at Gong Zhou's craftsmanship.
——She saw clearly just now that the cut on the edge of the waste mud cover was clean and neat, without any trace of mud or signs of being pried open by someone, which showed that Gong Zhou had indeed let the blade on the square cart penetrate the entire cover without damaging the mouth piece at all.
What kind of knife control technique is this?
If she were to do this step...she would definitely either cut through both layers of the mouth flap in one go, or not cut through even one layer of the mouth flap at all.
"Haha, this is nothing special," Gong Zhou laughed while holding the pot, "To borrow a phrase from Wen Zhonggong - 'Nothing special, just practice makes perfect'!"
"If you practice for a long time, you can do it as well."
"That's not necessarily true... This thing looks so difficult." Xu Yichi shook his head and backed out right there and then.
Seeing this, Gong Zhou didn't bother her with this question any more. He just smiled and picked up the chariot again: "Okay, let's not talk about other things for now." "You guys continue to watch me make the pot."
"After the flap is opened, the next step is naturally the opening piece."
"I have just explained in detail the key points that need to be paid attention to when opening the mouth piece. The diameter of the mouth piece of the non-cut-off lid pot should be smaller than the mouth piece of the lid, so that it can accommodate the pierced mouth and ensure that the pierced mouth can move in and out freely. The cut-off lid pot should be the same as above."
"Well, there's no need to change the size of the square car. I just adjusted this size based on the hole. Now that it's in place, turn it—" Gong Zhou controlled the square car and carefully turned the wooden turntable at the bottom of the pot. "Okay, now our pot mouth is open. Just give it a simple comb to make the cut smoother."
"Then open the water outlet inside the spout."
"Eh? The water outlet under the spout actually needs to be opened." Lord An, who had not done as much homework as Xu Yichi before coming, twisted his eyebrows in confusion, "I thought that thing was to dig a big hole directly at the spout."
"Hey~ This hole is not suitable to be dug!" Gong Zhou shook his head repeatedly after hearing this. "If we dig a hole directly, won't the tea leaves flow out through the hole and be carried away by the tea water?"
"Also, some pots have wide spouts with small openings. If you really dig a hole, too much tea leaves will fall in and it will easily clog the spout!"
"So it's not appropriate to dig that big hole... When we opened the water outlet, we used this - a small copper pipe. Do you think it looks like the Luoyang shovel they use to dig graves?"
Gong Zhou smiled and raised an open copper tube with a wooden handle. The girls came forward to take a look, and after a while they all burst out laughing.
"You know what, they really look alike." Bai Miaomiao laughed so hard that tears were about to fall out, "It's just that the Luoyang shovel is many times bigger than this small copper tube!"
"Of course they should be similar." Gong Zhou said calmly, "After all, their functions are similar!"
"Drilling the water outlet - when drilling, pay attention to the arrangement of the holes in a beautiful and neat manner, with even spacing."
"You can't have three on the left and two on the right - if you do that, you might as well make a one-hole pot!"
"Look, if we arrange it like this, the water outlet will be neat and beautiful." Gong Zhou raised his head and said, "Isn't this effect great?" after he had poked out more than a dozen water holes in one breath.
"Indeed, if we don't use formula templates when we do typesetting on computers, we may not be able to make it so neat." Xu Yichi nodded - anyway, she didn't know how to use the built-in functions of various software, so she really couldn't make such neat looping graphics.
“Hahaha, that’s because you don’t practice enough.” Gong Zhou grinned, “I just used the copper pipe to open the water outlet, and the edge is not smooth enough.”
"We still have to drill it with the single fruit and trim it."