The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 578 Mr. Lu, could you please not let me imitate the first-class cultural relic? !
The clay figurine squatted down, shrank into a small pile, and moved away step by step.

Shen Le felt a little soft-hearted, but still did not call it back. Instead, he turned his head away resolutely:
Looking for a model?
Or buy a plastic mannequin?

If everything is repaired, or if we have a rough idea of it, we can ask the bearded man to come over and try it on his shoulder.

He is a big and strong man, so it must be suitable for him, and he can also borrow the armor model he has repaired.

However, if you only have a few fragments, is it better to keep them or not?

Shen Le weighed the reshaped, re-scanned, and 3D-printed replica, and kept trying to figure it out. There was a slight breeze around him, and a woman in a silk dress floated over and stood in front of him:
Shrug, shrug, shrug...

"Can you guys... move aside too?" Shen Le was much more polite to Luoqun than to the clay figurines, and even extended his hand to make a "please" gesture:

"Your shoulders are narrow and tapered, not suitable for carrying armor! - No, you can't swell up or enlarge them! This is not a matter of volume! Please move aside!"

The skirt shrank down, bringing with it a fragrant breeze, and swirled and danced away. Shen Le had just breathed a sigh of relief when there was a clattering sound beside him, and several clay figurines rushed over and stood in a row:
From short to tall, from thin to fat, with shoulders ranging from cloth to leather armor to chain mail, they were lined up neatly.

Behind them, a team of armored warriors stood solemnly in line, their helmets and armor shining, each showing off their armor decorations.

Behind them, there was another group of puppets carrying buckets, soil, grass stems, paint, etc., waiting in line.

It looked like Shen Le would make a new shoulder for the terracotta warrior in front of him with just one order, for Shen Le to inspect...

"Ah, this is really not needed." Shen Le sighed helplessly. In other words, this studio is still big enough to accommodate so many figurines;

If we move to the next door, the place shared by professors and students, if these figurines stand outside, others will have no place to work!
"You guys go away first..." Shen Le waved his hand to drive them away. When the clay figurines were dejected, lined up and jumped into the pen holder and disappeared, he sighed and slowly began to knead the plaster:

"What's his level... Isn't there a fixed ratio for making gypsum powder?" Across the camera, several students poked their heads out and couldn't help but complain:
"What is this? Too much flour, add water, too much water, add flour?"

"Don't just talk about them." Professor Bai came over with a stack of papers, raised the papers, and slapped his student on the forehead:
"At least they have figured out the shape, and it looks like they can put it together to form a complete object. I'll give you these metal pieces. How well can you do it?"

"Boss, you can't give us this kind of Tang Dynasty armor fragment!" The two students ran away in panic.
"We are lucky to be able to help you! Besides, we don't know how to forge silver, and there is no place to learn!"

"How difficult is it to learn this?" Professor Bai continued to complain to them:

“There are videos online, all with great detail, and the tools are sold on Taobao. If you don’t want to buy them, you can find used ones in the institute’s warehouse.

You guys practice on your own, and when you have a rough idea of it, come and ask the teacher for help. As long as you have a rough idea, I will teach you! I will give you a week to practice!"

"Boss, I'm leaving first! I have to measure all those spectra today!"

"Boss, I'm leaving now! I haven't finished my paper yet!"

"Boss, I'm leaving too! The final report is due this week!"

The students scattered like birds and beasts. Professor Bai was left standing there, looking at the students' backs, sighing helplessly:
We can’t blame the students. There is indeed a difference between getting ashore and not getting ashore. Students just have so many things to deal with.

I have to do experiments, write papers, help my supervisor write various National Natural Science Foundation applications, project applications, and final reports, and also prepare for civil service exams.

There are so many things to do, how can I find the time?

It's just a skill. If you don't want to practice it, then don't practice it. Anyway, there's still time to practice it slowly when you can stay in the institute.
If I can't stay, what's the point of practicing? Am I going to go to those scenic spots and contract a small shop to make handmade silver products to make money?

But, but... In the field of cultural relic restoration, thesis may be important, and getting a job may be important, but the most important thing is not the cultural relics that are restored one by one under your own hands...

If Shen Le heard the students' complaints, he would probably wake up and find that his subordinates really didn't know how to count. They were really "adding water when there was too much flour, and adding flour when there was too much water."

No matter how many times he tried, he finally made a large ball of plaster mud and began to apply it to the plastic model he bought:

It was applied higher and wider, to... almost enough to cover the shoulder width of a strong man, plus the thickness of clothes and chain mail - it was even trimmed into the shape of a shoulder-length garment.

Then, while the plaster is still wet, pick up the 3D printed shoulder pieces and paste them onto the plaster piece by piece:

“Maybe this piece should be moved up a bit.”

"This piece...a little lower?"

"This piece is... not for the right shoulder? It would be more suitable to put it on the left shoulder?"

With a physical entity there, Shen Le fiddled with the fragments, comparing them back and forth, and the result became much more intuitive.

After the jigsaw puzzle lasted for more than an hour, Shen Le looked around the plastic model and nodded with satisfaction:

"Well, it's almost there. Next, we need to make a copy of the symmetrical position and put it on the opposite side?"

The 3D printer started working hard again. It spewed out a bunch of metal sheets, which Shen Le placed on the shoulders of the plastic model. When the two sides were closed, the shoulder swallowing pattern could be roughly seen:
"This is the shape of a ferocious beast..."

Shen Le snapped and snapped, taking photos and recording videos. A fragrant breeze blew around him, and the girls in skirts were already holding the album and began to search hard:
What are the armor styles of the Tang Dynasty, including those recorded in drawings, murals, sculptures, and clay figurines?

What are the beast patterns?
One by one, turn them all out for Shen Le to refer to!
"lion?"

"tiger?"

"Suyan?"

"dragon?"

I passed by the picture albums one by one, and the patterns one by one like a revolving lantern. I put it next to the shoulder swallow, compared it, it was not, and left;

The next person in a silk skirt held the album and put it next to her shoulder. She compared it again, saw Shen Le shaking his head, and left again.

The clean and neat energy was envied by not only the students but also the professors:
"It's a pity that we can only look through the atlas on the computer or do it ourselves... It's impossible to have so many students to help..."

Shen Le flipped through the images again and again, comparing the animal ears, eyes, teeth, and mouths, and finally came up with a roughly similar image. Next, he had to make something similar:

"So what's next? What should we do?"

Shen Le, whose skills were only up to "shaping the metal pieces and putting them back in place", once again rushed back to the old house to ask Mr. Lu for advice...

"Ah, this is not difficult, it's just a design problem." Mr. Lu picked up the copy given by Shen Le, took a look at it, and began to skillfully draw lines on the silver sheet:
"Let's make a mold first, then put the bottom mold under the gold and silver plates and hammer it repeatedly. When it is basically formed, we can trim it and then chisel the lines on it - give me some time."

Before Shen Le could react, he had already pounced on the computer, tapping and prodding, and began drawing and modeling. After a series of dazzling operations, he clapped his hands and stretched:
"Okay, I've sent out the mold. It will arrive in two days. This mold is made of lead-tin alloy. It's troublesome to make it yourself, so it's more convenient to let a professional do it..."

"Thank you very much! I'll transfer the money to you no matter how much you want!"

Shen Le immediately reached for his phone. Mr. Lu turned around and held his hand:

"No, no! It's my honor to help you. Big Boss, please don't be so fussy with me. I'm really sorry. Can you extend the lease of your house for ten years?"

"A hundred years is fine!"

Shen Le smiled.

He let go of his hand, and Mr. Lu turned around and plunged into his work again. He turned on a crusher, put in a few pieces of pale yellow solids, and pounded them with a loud bang;
He took out a box of stone powder from a box next to him, and after the crusher finished its work, he poured the pale yellow powder and stone powder together and stirred them repeatedly. While stirring, he explained:
"This is grindstone powder, and the yellow one is rosin. Mix the two together, and they are relatively soft. They are used on the mold to hammer the silver sheet, and they are not easy to damage the silver sheet itself.

As for hammering out the shape, it can be done by cold forging or heat treatment, different treatments are used for different situations..."

So how should I deal with the shoulder swallowing that I am going to do now?
Shen Le was a little confused. Mr. Lu glanced at him and smiled confidently:
"Don't worry. Look at the metal sheet you repaired. It's relatively thick, but not thick enough to be cast. It should be mainly cold forged.

Heat treatment mainly involves annealing after heating, so that the forged object has better ductility and plasticity. You should not need this. When the time comes, I say, you can just beat it. "

What can Shen Le say?
Shen Le just dealt with these fragments!

Ding ding dong, ding ding dong, big hammer, small hammer, heavy hammer, light hammer.

Iron hammer, wooden mallet, rubber hammer; rectangular hammer, hammer for hitting curved inner wall, smooth hammer for smoothing out bumpy surfaces.

In the words of Mr. Lu:
"Don't worry, you haven't practiced enough. Practice more, practice all kinds of techniques for a few pounds, then you will know what the various techniques, angles, weights and what they look like..."

"How many pounds?!"

"if not?"

Shen Le really wanted to use his mental power to rub the silver plate directly and make the shape he wanted.

However, there was too much spiritual power mixed in, so what he made was his own thing, not the restored armor;

They don't do anything themselves, just draw the blueprint and hand it over to the machine for processing, or hand it over to Mr. Lu to make. The things they make are not spiritual and not convenient to integrate with the existing armor...

What else can I say? Let’s fight!
"Don't be impatient, sir! Take your time! Let's try something simple first, and make a silver plate..."

"Beautiful! Let's try the arc this time and make a cup..."

"How about a silver plate with a phoenix pattern?" "How about something a little more difficult? How about a six-petal silver plate?"

Shen Le finally couldn't help it. Mr. Lu, your requirements for me are too high!
What kind of topics are you giving me? The reference pattern of this six-petal silver plate you gave me is the gilt six-curved silver plate with Fei Lian pattern unearthed in Hejiacun!
If this is printed out, will the next task you give me be the exquisite gold bowl with mandarin duck and lotus petals pattern that I circled eight times when I first visited it?
"Ah, not really."

Mr. Lu laughed happily. As he laughed, he turned around and went in, holding out a long box. He opened the lid of the box, and inside was a brilliant, golden glow:
One by one, small golden bowls with mandarin duck and lotus petal patterns were lined up in a row:
"I made this to practice after visiting the museum, and I still sell it online. If you want to make this shoulder swallow, you don't need such delicate skills -

In fact, if you can make the Dancing Horse Holding a Cup and Silver Pot, then you are almost there and can do it yourself."

Shen Le almost couldn't catch his breath. Can we stop focusing on replicating top-notch cultural relics? Huh?
Can? !
Can you please stop staring at something so difficult?
This silver pot is even more vicious than the previous gold bowl. The gold bowl was not even included in the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country!

"Don't be like that. It's not difficult. I'll show you how to do it, and then you just do it as I say." Mr. Lu smiled calmly.

"Come, I'll call you first..."

Shen Le watched him make the sound of clanging, ding-dong, ding-dong, first chiseling lines on the silver sheet with a chisel, and then hammering it continuously with a hammer.

Beat a piece of silver into a curved pot shape;

Then, from both sides of the pot, from the inside to the outside, the outline of the horse is hammered out. Finally, when the silver sheet is turned over, a dancing horse can be seen protruding on the surface of the object, creating a bas-relief effect.

After hammering, the pot body is placed on the model, and the front is carved with a chisel, including the horse's mane, ribbons and other details...

"Alright! Next, put these two sides together!"

Mr. Lu generously gave up his workstation and handed the hammer to Shen Le. Shen Le carefully raised the hammer and hammered, hammered, hammered...

The first hammer strike felt like it wasn't going to work. He quickly used his mental strength to direct the direction of his force, aiming at the desired position, and struck, struck, struck, until both sides of the silver pot were bent and closed into a straight line.

Mr. Lu quickly took it over, welded, ground, and polished it, and finally handed it to Shen Le, which was another smooth and beautiful silver pot without any welding seams.

Shen Le already understood. The shoulder swallow he wanted to hit - or rather the shoulder swallow fragments, was precisely on this curved, convex shape, from the inside out, to hit the outline of the beast;

As long as the dancing horse holding the cup and silver pot can be completed, it will be easy to perform the shoulder swallowing.

If you can draw, carve lines with a chisel, and know how deep to chisel from the back and what arc you want, then you can get started!
There are teachers who teach, and there are teachers who teach in a nanny-like manner. What else can I say? Just work hard!
[Shen Le, it's crooked. ]

I'm not crooked, it's the hammer that's crooked.

[Shen Le, it's crooked again. ]

I told you I wasn't crooked!
[Shen Le, do you want to see what the silver plate looks like now? ]

What's so good about it? Wanna hit it with a hammer and turn it over to take a look?

This is placed in the mold and beaten. As long as it is beaten until it fits the mold completely, the rest is just finishing work. There's nothing to see!

[Shen Le, why don't you stop fighting and let Zheng Mo do it! ]

That’s not the case!

Shen Le wiped his sweat. There were jingling and chirping sounds around him, and the little guys were making a mess.

He had just beaten out a silver plate, and the little inkstone had already directed the hammer to beat out a beautiful silver bowl;

He had already made the silver bowls, and Xiao Mochu had already made silver bowls with six petals, eight petals, water ripples, and lotus petals.
He had just beaten the silver plate into the curve of the silver pot, and before he started to trim it, Xiao Modou brought out a beautiful silver pot. Except for the lack of gilding, the picture of the dancing horse holding the cup was exactly the same as the one on the Internet...

Shen Le felt that those one thousand hammers, ten thousand hammers, all hit him, smashing his self-esteem into pieces.

I know my skills are not as good as Xiao Modou's, but it was also Xiao Modou's first time to learn goldsmithing, and it was also my first time, so there shouldn't be such a big difference!
Alas, sometimes I really want to give up and leave everything to Xiao Modou.

The problem is, when we leave everything to Xiao Modou, sometimes the things he makes are not quite right!

[Shen Le, let's do this.] Just as he was feeling embarrassed, Lan Zhuang flashed out, casting a shadow:
[Look, I can feel the silver plate you hit, and what it looks like with each blow. I'll project it to you, and give you real-time feedback, okay?]

Shen Le: “…”

Before he could answer, there was a wailing sound beside him, and Mr. Lu banged his head on the ground:
"Why didn't I meet you? Why didn't I meet you earlier? I suffered so much when I was practicing this trick. Beautiful girl, will you marry me? We can join forces!"

Shen Le: ...Get out!

Don't pursue the people around me for this reason!
Lan Zhuang hasn't transformed yet, there's no point in you pursuing her!

With Lan Zhuang's help, Shen Le's level of silver making has improved by leaps and bounds, and his practice speed has also increased a lot.

With each hammer strike, the eyes could see the deformation of the silver plate. After the mental power was expanded, he could directly feel the feedback of the silver plate with each hammer strike, and the hammer strikes became much more accurate immediately.

The only problem is:

"Lan Zhuang, let me take it easy... I feel a little dizzy..."

It feels like an unskilled driver who has just started to practice driving a second-level car. When you back up, your hands are steering the wheel to the right, but your eyes see the car moving to the left...

Under this high-intensity training, Shen Le worked hard for half a month and actually made a Dancing Horse Holding a Cup and Silver Pot that was full of bumps and unevenness and hard to describe in words.

Although I have to deduct some money on top of the price of the silver when I put it up for sale on Taobao, it's still barely passable.

Then, under the guidance of Mr. Lu, I began to forge pieces of silver by hand. After that, I learned how to do detailed finishing, welding, and polishing...

"Okay, the silver pieces made like this should be usable." Mr. Lu took the animal head fragments made by Shen Le and the 3D printed replica, put them together, and nodded reluctantly:
"Repairing and welding are simple. If you can't handle the decoration, come back to me!"

Shen Le thanked him solemnly and rushed back to Dunhuang. He took out the repaired metal fragments, spliced them with the silver plate he made, and began to work on it.

Whether it can be put together or repaired depends on this one shot!

【Don’t be afraid! I’m here! 】

The little ink bucket was eager to try. Seeing Shen Le hesitate, he calmly comforted him:

[It doesn’t matter if the welding is crooked! It doesn’t matter if the grinding is crooked! Leave it all to me! I can fix it! ]

[How about... I take charge of the welding?] The small oil lamp popped its head out:

[Electric welding also uses electricity! I will control it, it will definitely be more stable and precise, better than what you just learned, Shen Le! ]

[I'll help!] Lan Zhuang then popped up:

[I can send out 3D images to guide you! If it's a little off, I can give you a hint!]

"No, really." Shen Le was sweating. It wasn't a big deal, but after all this trouble, it feels even more troublesome!
Forget it, I'll do it myself!
He did it himself, first 3D printing, then casting, and making silver armor fragments. Then, he pieced the replicas of the fragments together, set up a magic circle, and began to extract the power of the metal element:
Isn't it just silver!

There are!
I filled it with enough Metal Element Power, filling it along the gap, allowing the Metal Element Power to extend on both sides and connect the two fragments together—

I just don't believe they won't connect!

Isn't this better than welding?!
In fact, this is indeed stronger than welding. A flash of silver light passed by, and the two fragments merged together silently.

Shen Le picked it up and looked at it. There was still a very obvious crack in the middle.

However, no matter how you let go, shake, or bend them, the two pieces are still tightly connected, like glue, and they refuse to separate...

"Okay, next, just fill it up..."

Shen Le worked hard, worked hard, and worked hard again. Over and over again, he practiced seven or eight times, and all the fragments were "welded" into two shoulders using a new method.

Its seamless integrity was so perfect that even Professor Bai nodded in approval when he touched it in his hands:

"Well, with this repair method, there is no need for any welding. Shen Le, can you help us repair some bronze artifacts in the future?

Those bronze artifacts that are not well preserved have broken edges and are very difficult to repair!"

"Since you asked, I'm sure there's no problem." Shen Le smiled:
"However, my method of repairing it leaves no trace at all. Will it be recognized by the cultural relic restoration community? Can I report the results and publish a paper?"

"Uh……"

This is really not possible... The key to cultural relic restoration is to leave traces and be reversible. Shen Le has repaired it like this, and it can't be cut open even with a saw...

"Just make me angry!"

Shen Le bowed his head and saluted, then hurried to repair the original shoulder swallow. One by one, one piece by one, all welded and filled, he began to stare at the roaring lion head above in a daze:
"There's still so much work to do! I can't do the engravings, the tiny gold beads - and where can I find the turquoise to complement it?
This turquoise has a very strong spiritual energy. It feels like if you put any other piece together, the original piece will jump up and smash the new one!"

(End of this chapter)