The production process of Shanlianhu pen is fine and complicated. From material selection to finished products, we have to go through more than 120 processes, which are roughly divided into two parts: basin work and dry work. The pot maker and the pen maker each stand by and watch a water benefit, put tens of millions of hairs into water, refine them, and then classify them according to the length of the pen tip, which is the "Qi Hao", and then remove the broken, non-pointed, curved but not straight, flat and not round hairs from them.
Then, according to the soft and hard properties of wool, the pen tip is "shaped" into semi-finished products; Dry farming farmers have to go through the processes of tying their heads, loading pens, selecting pens and lettering, and finally make finished products. The choice of pen is a difficult process. The pen holder holds the pen in his left hand and trims the pen tip with a knife in his right hand to remove the bad hair in the pen tip and the miscellaneous hair on the surface, so that the pen holder and the sharp edge are round, which meets the requirements of the lake pen tip and is neat, round and healthy.
The main processes of making Shanlian Lake Pen are twelve processes, such as pen material, water basin, knot, matching, inlay, general pier, pen selection and lettering, and each process has a small process, so there are more than 120 processes in all sizes.
Pen material: Raw wool is mainly divided into dozens of varieties according to different characteristics such as length, thickness, color and sharpness, which are used to make pens of different types, shapes and qualities.
Water basin: also called water engineering. The pen maker tidies up the bristles dipped in the basin, removes the miscellaneous hairs, fluff and hairlessness that are not suitable for writing, and arranges them into semi-finished pen tips. "Water basin" is one of the most complicated and critical processes in the process of making lake pens.
Knot: also known as tying number, semi-finished pens made in pots are sent to this process for ligation. Then drop the melted rosin on the root of the pen, so that the bristles are not easy to fall off.
Puton: The process of choosing a pen tube. In the selection, dry, moth-eaten, old-skinned and uneven-thickness pen tubes are eliminated one by one, and according to the specifications of various kinds of pens, pen tubes with consistent color, thickness and rod length are selected by classification.
Fitting: It includes two parts. First, install the pen tip, that is, dig out the selected pen tube and install the ligated pen tip. The second is to prepare a pen cap for the installed pen.
Mosaic: it belongs to the process of decorating the pen container of a certain brush. This kind of pen generally uses ChristianRandPhillips Zhu, Cheng Yanzhu, ivory, mahogany, sandalwood and other materials as the main shaft of the pen holder, and then uses horn (later plexiglass) to make the pen tube more beautiful. There are two kinds of embedded heads (pen ends) and embedded tails (pen ends).
Pen selection: also known as pen repair. It is a key technical link in the processing of lake pen. Pen selection is the process of final inspection and finishing of the semi-finished brush formed in the previous process. Painters should remove the bristles that affect the internal and external quality, reshape the pen head, and finally achieve the quality requirements of sharp, neat, round and healthy.
Engraving: Engraving various fonts on the pen tube. For example, the name of the pen and the name of the manufacturer.
In addition to the above-mentioned main processes, there are several auxiliary processes such as degreasing, color rubbing, labeling and packaging.