Making Screws
I do not know the setup of the Blacksmith Bolt and Rivet fellow (he’s been getting virtually all of my wood screw business for quite some time) but this video of a “small” Japanese screw making operation tickled my fancy.
I do not know the setup of the Blacksmith Bolt and Rivet fellow (he’s been getting virtually all of my wood screw business for quite some time) but this video of a “small” Japanese screw making operation tickled my fancy.
What a great little business. As I watched I started thinking about one guy doing everything from the manufacturing process, the maintenance of those machines, which given the amount of metal shavings flying around to muck up the works must be quite often, the quality control, packaging, shipping, invoicing, ordering raw materials etc., and I was thinking, “How does he do it?”, and unless something was lost in translation, he gave the answer when asked about his hobbies: “I enjoy drinking very much when I get back home.” . That cracked me up. Not just him saying it but the fact he looked so happy as he said it and if anyone deserves a good a drink to relax after a hard days work it’s him!
(Also when the video first started I thought the sounds of the machines could be put to music with the machines providing the rhythm section. It was quite relaxing.)