Chapter 76 Pulling the Billet and Digging the Kiln
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After returning to the tribe, Mu Feng asked people to send the yellow clay to the cave where he lived.
He started to prepare pottery.
But pottery making is very tedious and requires a lot of preparation.
He gave Mingguang the machete and asked him to chop down a thick piece of wood to use as a tool for drawing billets.
The so-called drawing tool can be rotated when making pottery to help shape.
He first cut a column horizontally across the stump, and rounded it bit by bit with his carpenter's axe to make a disk nearly ten centimeters thick with a radius of twenty or thirty centimeters.
The wood is a light dry paulownia trunk that is particularly emphasized by the wood wind, which is very light.
Then he punched a circular hole in the center of one side of the disc, and cut a locust wood stick about five or six centimeters in diameter and more than half a meter long and placed it in it.
In this way, the disc is held up by wooden sticks, like a small umbrella.
The last step is to put a stone about ten centimeters thick at each end, and set up a squared tree trunk on it. In this way, the trunk is almost ten centimeters away from the ground.
He dug a hole at one end of the tree trunk almost as thick as a locust stick, and then passed the end of the disc supported by the locust stick through the trunk.
He reached out and turned the disc, and the disc turned quickly.
"It's done!" Mu Feng nodded, and a self-made simple drawing tool was completed.
But then he can't make pottery, because the firing of pottery is much more complicated, especially the temperature requirement when firing pottery is extremely high, and the firing time is also very long, starting every three or five days.
All he had to do was to prepare for the three to five days of burning pottery.
This requires at least two things, one is the pottery cave, and the other is firewood.
The earth kiln has the shortest heat-resisting time in the cave, and the stone kiln has the longest heat-resisting time.
If the cave can not be heated, there is a risk of frying the cave, which makes him particularly concerned about the heat resistance of the cave.
Although Mu Feng has made craft pottery in his previous life, he has never done pottery firing.
He vaguely remembered that when he was learning pottery, the master also told him that the quality of the finished pottery depends on the materials, craftsmanship and the quality of the cave.
Mu Feng knows that the material is this material, and his own craftsmanship is the same.
His only requirement now is that this pottery can be made, and whether it looks good or not is not in his scope for the time being.
After thinking about it, he felt that he still chose a mound farther away from his cave, dug a two-meter square cave, piled it up layer by layer with stones, and smeared it with muddy water to make the inside relatively smooth.
In order to prevent accidents, he piled up three layers of stones, and then he was relieved.
Leaving the windward opening and the smoke outlet, a simple small cave is done.
Just doing these two things, he didn't get it right until sunset.
No way, no one in the tribe knew what he was going to do, except to help him hand over materials, he couldn't get in at all.
But that's not entirely true, at least in the afternoon Mingguang took a few people to imitate his example and dug a bigger hole on the side.
However, this earthen cave is not used to burn the kiln, but to smoke the charcoal - the temperature of the kiln is only satisfied by the charcoal.
finish eating
After dinner, Mu Feng ran non-stop to smoke the charcoal.
Smoked charcoal is relatively simple, but more labor-intensive.
Mu Feng prepared the hay, lit it and put it in the earth hole, then put the prepared wood into the earth hole, watching the hay ignite the wood skin, and after waiting for a while, the earth hole was sealed directly without leaving a gap.
After waiting for a while, he opened the hole and took out the black charcoal.
And then concocted according to the law, very hard.
Fortunately, Mufeng only demonstrated how to make the first batch of charcoal, and the next lot of wood was handed over to Mingguang and Shuofeng.
After doing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. It took a day to find the pottery clay, and after the preparations were made, he could start pottery making tomorrow.
When he returned to the cave, Li Hu happened to come over with two bows and let Mu Feng test his power.
Because they are all single-piece bows, Mufeng is very easy to pull.
To his surprise, Lihu told him that both bows were made by Lihu himself.
Mu Feng knew it in his heart, tried it out, and said, "It's not bad, but Mingguang and Hanshu might be a little uncomfortable with such a bow. The bow body is too soft!"
Lihu scratched his head: "I also tried the method of tying the two or three pieces you mentioned, but there is a gap in the middle when it is fixed, and it is inconvenient to attach the bowstring, so far we have not figured out how to fix it! "
"Huh?" Mu Feng frowned, "Didn't I already tell you, bind it with animal tendons."
Lihu's expression was even more embarrassing: "I understand it too, but I don't know what to do when I do it. Besides, I'm afraid that the same situation is happening to Maduo from the Blue Bird Department."
Mu Feng slapped his forehead: "As expected!"
This is the case with Lihu bow making, so Changning must have encountered the same problem.
"And..." Lihu said helplessly, "If the bowstring is stretched too much, it will easily cut my fingers. Look, my fingers have been cut several times."
Mu Feng first let out a sigh of relief, and then sighed: "I forgot to tell you how to draw the bow, by the way, and the releaser!"
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player? "Lihu is puzzled," what releaser? "
Mu Feng said helplessly: "Well, let me first think about how to make this dispenser, and then teach you how?"
"Okay!" Li Hu couldn't help but feel excited when he felt that Mu Feng was going to teach him something new again.
(End of this chapter)
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