An angel sent by God to make wood.

"My name is Zhang Yuexi, and I'm a carpenter. I like work with sweat, and I also believe that wood has temperature ... "This is the favorite opening remarks of Zhang Yuexi, a girl born after 1985, when introducing herself. For her, simple wood is undoubtedly the closest partner in life, and every grain contains infinite possibilities. ...

An angel sent by God to make wood.

If it weren't for the experience of studying in Australia, the words beauty and carpenter might never intersect. Although he majored in electronic information engineering in university, he had a natural affinity for machinery, but Zhang Yuexi never wanted to be a craftsman, dealing with wood and tools every day.

During his stay in Australia, Zhang Yuexi has been working part-time. Once, she passed by an art district similar to Beijing 798, and came across a commonweal woodworking project. She wanted to find an assistant. To put it bluntly, it was a chore. With great interest in this craft, Zhang Yuexi contacted Eric, the person in charge.

The appearance of China girl Zhang Yuexi surprised the woodcarving artist Eric. Because the assistant's work is extremely hard, but the money given is pitiful, no one has applied since the job advertisement was posted. Eric was very excited and kept saying to Zhang Yuexi, "You are an angel sent by God to make wood ..."

But the angel backed out on his first day in office, because carpentry was too hard and the bones would fall apart at the end of the day. Although she was disappointed, Zhang Yuexi discovered this beauty bit by bit when she saw pieces of dirty wood with bark and mud miraculously turned into various works of art under Eric's polishing. She secretly decided to stick to her job as an angel and learn this wonderful craft.

In the process of getting along with Eric, Zhang Yuexi benefited a lot. Before, she always thought that art was the exclusive product of the rich, and only those who had enough food and clothing were qualified to engage in art. However, Eric had a poor family and had to drive a truck to support himself. However, he did not give up his pursuit of art, and cooperated with the local people to teach the aborigines carpentry skills for free.

Eric's studio is located in an abandoned mine. He knocked and knocked with tools every day, and even built a Xiao Mu Castle and a quaint and practical bathtub in the mine. The mine is surrounded by dense forests. After a hard day's work, Eric will lie in the bathtub and enjoy a steam bath. Thanks to her hard work, Zhang Yuexi also enjoyed the same treatment. When she was lying in the steam bathtub and looking up at the starry sky for the first time, she suddenly felt that she had become a fairy in the forest, and suddenly realized that in fact, everyone can become an artist, live with nature and embrace the beauty of the original ecology. This is life. ...

After many days and nights of hard work and tempering, Zhang Yuexi became a thoughtful carpenter. Although her hands became rough because of this, her soul kept rejoicing. When she finished her studies and returned to her motherland, she found that she could never leave this craft again. After returning to China, Zhang Yuexi worked in newspapers, non-governmental organizations and entrepreneurial websites, but he never gave up this knock-and-knock skill and often took pains to find some good wood. By chance, she met her partner who is now engaged in the import wood business, and the other party is willing to provide high-quality wood for her creativity, so they hit it off and set up the "My Log Creative Design" studio.

There are elves living in every piece of wood.

The studio was set up, but Zhang Yuexi didn't know what kind of products to produce. Her thinking jumps, and all the inspiration comes from the "nonsense" between friends. It is because of these nonsense inspirations that her first product is a surprise-it turned out to be a washboard specially used for kneeling!

Speaking of it, Zhang Yuexi invented this washboard to "cheat his father": when he was a child, his father had a lot of social parties, and every time he came home late, his mother would get angry. He murmured, "It's not enough for me to kneel on the washboard ..." But at that time, the washing machine was used at home, and the washboard could not be found, so Zhang Yuexi specially made a washboard in the shape of a bear for his father after setting up a studio. Some people buy it specially to propose to their girlfriends, and some companies buy it and hang it on the wall to warn employees. What's more interesting is that some people actually report that this improved version of the washboard is more labor-saving after digging two nests!

If it weren't for a post-80s girl as a carpenter, I'm afraid we wouldn't have seen such interesting carpentry. Although it is only a big joke toy, it is also a meticulous work. She has to draw the design herself and make samples in the workshop.

In Zhang Yuexi's eyes, different kinds of wood have different temperament. Cherry wood is soft and its strength should be controlled well; Black walnut wood has a high density, so it is impossible without some strength. A carpenter is a confidant of wood. Unmodified logs form natural and smooth wood grains after seasonal changes, even scars are beautiful. The appearance may be rough and dull, but after being sharpened by the carpenter's knife and axe, it is transformed into another existence, which is the joy of carpentry.

Take wooden pallet as an example. A piece of wood of suitable size is hollowed out in the center with a knife and then left blank along the edge. After the blank is punched out, the extra wood on the outer edge is cut off, and then the plate is big. Then use a knife to dig out the bottom of the dish to the thickness and shape you want, and then patiently polish it for half a day.

People who cherish wood, even the leftover bits and pieces left in the processing process will not be used as firewood, but made into pieces of handicrafts with unique texture and personality, small chopping boards, bookmarks, business card holders ... Zhang Yuexi also gave these works a unique identity. You can know who shared a tree with you by tapping the QR code to scan the code.

Zhang Yuexi is obsessed with high-quality wood, hoping to make original ecological wood products that young people like, with a sense of design, creativity and practicality, and also hoping to encourage more people to have close contact with wood. She knows that a person's productivity and creativity are limited, so she set up an internet vertical community of "My Log Creative Design" with ingenuity, hoping to gather more craftsmen, designers and original ecological enthusiasts. In this community, all people with ideas can submit their ideas online and share their ideas, tool use experience and raw material information, and then Zhang Yuexi will select the best ideas from them and put them into production, so that everyone can realize their design ideals. In order to ensure productivity, Zhang Yuexi also built a woodwork factory in Rizhao, Shandong, and became the director himself.

Small and beautiful can also achieve great things.

Being a carpenter silently is a beautiful thing, but Zhang Yuexi is more eager to grasp the pulse of the times and give his career a brand-new development form with the help of the east wind of the Internet. Because of this, she carefully inspected the traditional wood products industry and found that the information asymmetry in the traditional wood industry chain led to problems such as increased costs and waste of resources, while the unchanging production ideas and mass production models would inevitably lead to a decline in user stickiness. Therefore, Zhang Yuexi chose to take a small and beautiful production route to make its business model flexible and full of human touch.

Online, she continues to raise funds for products and designs, and strives to build a more cohesive community so that everyone can put forward their own ideas. After modification, proofing and production by designers on the platform, the design threshold is lowered through online crowdfunding and profit sharing. Offline, user experience activities continue. In addition to designing and making wood products for sale, woodworking workshops in Zhang Yuexi often offer woodworking courses. Especially every time I give a class to my children, this carpenter sister plays very high. She said that there is a public middle school in Sydney, and one of the compulsory courses is carpentry, with the aim of cultivating people with strong hands-on ability, life and aesthetics. In this way, it was not long before this thoughtful carpenter girl attracted a large number of fans for herself.

The enthusiasm and curiosity of young people determine that Zhang Yuexi has a broader vision. In addition to focusing on the industry itself, she is also keen to participate in various entrepreneurial competitions.

At the "China Entrepreneur's First"1+1'Challenge Competition "held at the end of 20 14, Zhang Yuexi successfully gained the attention of the judges, and finally defeated many opponents and won the130,000 yuan prize provided by the sponsor. At the "Entrepreneurial Heroes' Meeting" held by CCTV Financial Channel, Zhang Yuexi gave a "love washboard" to all the instructors present as soon as he appeared. She said elegantly that more people should use high-quality and environmentally-friendly wood products, so that the concept of sustainable forest development can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and the ancient crafts can have a more dynamic future. Her ingenious thinking, meticulous expression, meticulous thinking and ingenious business design have aroused the strong interest of Yu and Sheng Xitai, two entrepreneurial instructors, and won unanimous praise from them.

In the online shops in Zhang Yuexi, you can see many simple wooden objects that reach people's hearts, such as the stupid Snow Mountain Bookstore, all from the pure Canadian Snow Mountain Forest Farm; The raw materials of the black walnut business card holder come from the forests of Europe and North America, and the elegant and simple design makes people fall in love at first sight; It is said that the strange pens in the lucky circle of touching wood can be transshipped. British people think that touching more wood will bring good luck, so they like to say "touch wood"! So Zhang Yuexi and her friends made this strange circle pen with European oak and American black walnut, hoping it would bring good luck to users. ...

With the realization of one creative ideal after another, Zhang Yuexi's craftsman career has become more and more colorful. Her ultimate goal is to become a MUJI in China. "I believe that in a few years, China will have its own MUJI, which is the responsibility of our new generation of entrepreneurs." Zhang Yuexi said.

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