The secrets of a master carpenter

There are many stories in life.

It’s really happening around us.

There will be different sounds,

There will be different attitudes.

Would you rather trace your roots or just go with the flow?

today,

Let's tell a story about "Weird Zhang"...

He is a "celebrity" here. Everyone knows him, and when they talk about him, they always say, "He's a weirdo!"

He often wears a plain work jacket and carries a woodworking tool bag. He is: "Weird Zhang."

Master Zhang is a very skilled craftsman. The furniture he makes has straight and smooth edges, precise and neat nailing and riveting, solid structure, and exquisite craftsmanship. After he makes a set of cabinets, everyone gives him a thumbs up. In addition to being able to make furniture, he also likes to ponder materials, craftsmanship, and aesthetics. Therefore, he often patiently explains to the owners what kind of boards to choose, what kind of hardware to choose, and how to judge the quality of materials, etc. Because everyone recognizes his craftsmanship, Master Zhang's "works" can be seen everywhere in our city. Every client who has hired Master Zhang is very satisfied with the furniture he makes, but... they all say this about Master Zhang:

It turns out that every time someone asks him to make furniture, he would first repeatedly emphasize that the owner must choose good materials. If the materials purchased by the owner are to his liking, his dark face would be full of smiles. If the boards purchased by the owner are not good: there are gaps, stratification, pungent smell, etc., he would not care whether the owner minds or not, and would keep nagging and persuading them to replace the poor materials, and would not tire of explaining the material selection standards in detail again.

The strangest thing is that Master Zhang always picks up all the leftover scraps and carries them away! In fact, this really saves the owners a lot of trouble. Some well-intentioned owners, worried that Master Zhang would have to work hard, specially throw away the scraps themselves. Unexpectedly, Master Zhang repeatedly complained about this. This behavior makes everyone think Master Zhang is weird, otherwise how could he be so stubborn?

Until one day, when I was participating in a volunteer activity with my friends, I actually met Master Zhang in a welfare home. During the conversation, I finally understood why he was so "weird"!

Master Zhang is actually an orphan. He was adopted by a carpenter when he was a child. He learned all his skills from his adoptive father. When he grew up, he made a living by carpentry.

Since he started his own business, Master Zhang has begun to provide free services to the welfare home in his spare time.

He used the leftover board scraps he collected to make small furniture for the children, such as small bookcases, small stools, small toys, etc. Because they were leftover materials, there were all kinds of boards, such as single-color, double-color, multi-color, textured, non-textured, etc. Master Zhang, who has rich color matching and woodworking experience, skillfully matched the small furniture with contrasting colors, which are deeply loved by the children, because these are the "colorful fairy tales" that are closest to the children in the welfare home.

At this point, Master Zhang felt a little embarrassed.

He also said: Sometimes there was not enough time to make small furniture with these "waste materials", so he packed them up in bags and rented a utility room on the first floor of his neighbor's house to store them. This utility room then became Master Zhang's temporary woodworking workshop.

He always tells the owners how to choose boards because he is worried that the owners, due to their lack of knowledge about the materials, will buy boards of unstable quality or that do not meet environmental standards, and end up suffering losses, causing their families and children in the welfare home to become sick due to excessive formaldehyde in the materials.

Master Zhang, who has been a carpenter for half his life, is not good at speaking, but he knows that only good environmentally friendly boards can be used with confidence by children, allowing them to grow freely in a pollution-free environment...