If Liang Liang wants to expand this industry, there is one problem that must be solved.
It's a timber issue.
It's not that we can't buy raw materials, but rather that there's a problem with drying them.
Guitars require very high-quality wood; at the very least, the wood must not warp or crack.
Guitar warping and cracking are factors that seriously affect sound quality.
If a guitar someone buys and uses for a few months before it warps or cracks, then the guitar is ruined.
Wood will only stop warping and cracking when it is thoroughly dried to a certain degree.
To make a good guitar, you must use wood that has been air-dried for many years. Only wood that has been completely air-dried will not warp or crack, and the guitar made from it will maintain its sound quality for many years.
If you're making low-end guitars, you can simply use equipment to force-dry the wood.
Forced-dried wood can still have problems a year later, mainly around the neck of the instrument.
Therefore, if you want to make a good guitar, you must store the wood yourself and let it air dry naturally.
Since we're going to do this project, we need to prepare early.
Liang Liang plans to take advantage of the current low price of wood to stock up on some and air-dry it at home. Once the wood is dried, he estimates that their brand will have a certain influence, and then it will be the perfect time to make guitars.
The three little girls worked for more than forty minutes and finally prepared six dishes and a pot of rice, then called them to eat.
It was already noon when we finished eating.
After a short rest at noon, we continued practicing in the afternoon until a little after 4 p.m.
"Uncle Gao! I have some business to attend to in the city tomorrow. Just practice as I instructed."
He nodded happily, then drove the carriage home, carrying the three drooling men.
The guy stayed at Liang Liang's house and will continue practicing tomorrow.
Xu Mei was busy heating up food for Liang Liang and his brother and feeding the pigs.
After dinner, Liang Liang taught her younger brother some guitar-making techniques that she hadn't had time to pass on yet.
If we don't pass it on now, it will be too late. Judging from Liang Feng's current performance, he probably won't need the knowledge his older brother has in him in a few days.
In a whole day, Liang Feng had already made the bodies and fretboards for three guitars. His plan was to make three necks tomorrow and then finish all three guitars at once.
Liang Liang felt a slight ache in her teeth looking at her younger brother's cooking.
He felt a deep sense of frustration in the electric guitar business.
Liang Feng's understanding of guitar making in just two days and one night surpassed what he had learned in a year of exploration.
I'm not going to watch anymore. Who cares how he figures it out on his own? If I keep watching, he won't be able to sleep tonight.
Liang Liang reminded Liang Feng to be careful and then came to the small shop below.
During the off-season for farming, the small shop is always full of idle people, some playing cards or mahjong, others smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, and chatting idly.
There are more than a dozen young men and women of similar age in Liangshuiwan Village and Liangliang. Apart from Xu Hebin and Sui Fulu, there are a few others who work as bricklayers outside with a bricklayer team, while the rest stay at home.
There were six or seven people in the shop tonight, and they all greeted Liang Liang when she came in.
Liang Liang asked for a pack of cigarettes and scattered them around the room.
"Hey guys! Anyone interested in getting a job?"
"Where are you going to work?" a young man named Han Guang asked.
“I want to open a small guitar workshop and need more than ten people. We already have four people from other villages, two men and two women, who were practicing singing at my house today. If you can do the rest, you can use people from the village. If you can't, I will have to go to other villages to find people.”
"Make a guitar?" The kids in Liangshui Bay looked at each other in disbelief. How could their hands, which were used for hoeing, possibly make a guitar?
From last year to this year, thanks to Liang Liang and Xu Mei, they did know what a guitar was, but asking them to make one was a bit ridiculous.
"Liang Liang! Do you think we can do anything else?"
“At first, nobody knows anything, but as long as you are willing to learn, there is nothing you can’t learn. I taught my younger brother for two days, and now he can make guitars. If you want to work there, he can teach you. The current monthly salary is 240 yuan, and you work eight hours a day. If you are willing to work overtime at night, you can earn an extra yuan per hour. If the products sell well in the future, I will give you a raise.”
It was only then that Liang Liang's friends realized he wasn't joking; it was actually true.
A monthly salary of 240 yuan is a considerable income for people who have no other source of income besides farming.
Working as a laborer in a bricklaying workshop earns eight yuan a day, while working as a skilled worker earns fifteen yuan a day. The minimum workday is ten hours, and you have to ride your bike around all day.
Some people were tempted.
"No wonder your brother hasn't come down these past two days."
“He makes guitars at home. If any of you are interested, you can go up and take a look. If you think you can do it, you can give it a try. If you don’t think you can, then forget it.”
So, these young people who hadn't played cards or mahjong all rushed to Liang Liang's house.
When Liang Liang finally decided to do something, she suddenly realized that she still had a lot of things to do.
The problem of storing and preserving the purchased timber now needs to be addressed by drying the timber.
To dry timber, the whole log needs to be split into squares or planks using a band saw. Buying ready-made squares or planks would cost a lot more money. The way to save costs is to build your own band saw house and process the timber yourself.
We also need to build a band saw house.
Liang Liang suddenly sighed. Nothing is easy!
"Xiao Liang! With more than a dozen people working, even though your place isn't small, it might not be enough, right?" Gao Yu, the shop owner, asked a practical question.
Gao Yu's family is also from Dapu Village; she and Gao Xing are from the same family.
"This problem can only be solved gradually."
"The village made a decision today: the old house in front of yours in the brigade is going to be sold for only 5,000 yuan. Why don't you buy it?"
Liang Liang was taken aback. Oh right! How come she hadn't thought of that?
Liangshuiwan Village is the central village in Pingshan Brigade. The brigade headquarters is located in Liangshuiwan Village, in front of the street where Liang Liang's family lives, in a courtyard that is over 100 meters long and 50 meters wide.
In the western part of this courtyard, which is the half along the main road below, there is a beverage factory. In the northeast corner of the eastern courtyard, there are five old-style tile-roofed houses, which used to be the brigade headquarters.
Now, the brigade headquarters has been rebuilt in a new courtyard at the south end of Liangshuiwan Village, next to the county highway, and moved there. This courtyard is now empty.
In my previous life, around this time, the production brigade sold the five rooms in front of Liang Liang's house, and a few years later, they sold the entire courtyard.
Liang Liang took a deep breath. Wasn't this like finding a needle in a haystack without even trying?
He first bought five old tile-roofed houses, thus owning part of the courtyard, and then rented the entire courtyard.
The area is over 5,000 square meters, with more than 20 rooms in total. He only needs to tidy it up and it will be enough for him.
For now, he can't use this area.
He'll take the cash to the brigade tomorrow and settle the matter of this courtyard first.
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