After hosting a simple New Year's banquet, on January 5th, he finally made the first high-quality wooden wheel without ever delaying his work, and organized all the steps needed before and after bending the wood into a wheel.
From selecting the wood, cutting the logs, letting them air dry or kiln-dry, to steaming and heating them to bend using molds.
Then to fixing the bent wood with clamps to prevent it from springing back and deforming after cooling, sawing off the excess parts after drying, and assembling two semicircles into a complete rim.
Next, embed and install the hub inside the rim for the spokes, use fish swim bladder glue to bond, and make the structure of the entire wheel more reasonable through mortise and tenon construction. Only then is the wheel considered complete.
The entire process is so complex, the costs of trial and error can be imagined.
