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Hey, this is Furniture Forensics.

It's the series where we take old pieces of furniture

and find out where they came from and who made them and we're ready to go except we don't have a piece.

But don't worry, I know where to find one.

This will just take a second second.

This is perfect.

And yeah, of course I have permission to borrow this.

You know, my wife asked me that this morning.

What do you people think of me?

This is a buckboard bench.

I found it on my neighbor's front porch.

She was out having a glass of wine one night when I stopped by.

She saw me admiring it and she said,

oh, yeah, they would take the seats off of old horse-drawn wagons,

add legs, and make them into household furniture.

And right away, I was skeptical.

I mean, I know a thing or two about old furniture.

If people were making benches out of wagon parts,

如果人们用马车零件制作长椅，

I would have heard about that.

我要是知道的话肯定早就听说过了。

Or there's lots of things I don't know about, and I'm just wrong.

或者有很多事情我根本不了解，是我错了。

Turns out there's hundreds of these all across the Midwest.

原来整个中西部地区有成百上千个这样的地方。

Most of them are reproductions.

它们大多是复制品。

They're new pieces of furniture made to look like they were created from wagon parts.

这些是新制作的家具，设计得看起来像是用马车部件改造而成的。

But 70 or 80 years ago,

但在七八十年前，

this was a real trend in furniture making.

这在家具制造领域曾是一股真正的潮流。

People really did take parts from old wagons,

人们确实会从旧马车上拆下零件来使用。

mostly the benches, and turn them into real household furniture.

主要是那些长凳，把它们改造成真正的家用家具。

Is that what we have here?

这就是我们现在面对的情况吗？

Do we have one of the real, legit, old buckboard benches?

我们有没有那种正宗的老式四轮马车长凳？

Maybe.

也许吧。

The seat of this bench looks worn and old.

这条长凳的凳面看起来又旧又破。

And yeah, you can fake that,

没错，你是可以假装成那样的。

but it's difficult to fake the splits,

但劈叉这种动作是很难造假的。

chips, gouges, scratches, and the general feeling of smoothness this has on all the surfaces that would have been used.

缺口、凹痕、划痕，以及所有原本会被使用过的表面所呈现出的整体光滑质感。

That's the sort of thing you only get after decades of use.

这种东西只有经过几十年的使用才会出现。

And this seat was definitely made by hand.

而且这个座椅绝对是手工制作的。

There's no machine planer marks,

没有刨床加工的痕迹。

no sanding scratches, but there are lots of spots where there's light tear-out.

没有打磨划痕，但有很多地方出现轻微的崩缺。

Just what you would expect if the whole thing was quickly planed up with a jack plane right before it was assembled.

这完全符合那种在组装前用粗刨快速刨平整个工件时会出现的情况。

Then where these two boards come together there's obvious planing marks over here.

然后在这两块木板拼接的地方，这边有明显的刨痕。

This board must have stuck out a little bit

这块板子肯定是稍微凸出来了一点。

so it was quickly planed flush with a jack plane after it was put together.

所以组装完成后，很快就用粗刨把它刨平了。

Finally there's this broad flat chamfer all the way around the outside of the seat board.

最后，座板外侧四周有一圈宽阔平整的倒角。

It looks nice and it would have helped any rain to drip off the edge of the seat.

它看起来很不错，而且能让雨水从座椅边缘滴落下去。

Now it's very well executed,

现在它执行得非常出色，

very flat, but the top line of that chamfer has just a little bit of waviness that you would expect from handwork.

非常平整，但那个倒角的顶边还是有一点手工制作时难免会出现的轻微波浪起伏。

This thing was definitely made with hand tools.

这东西肯定是用手工工具做的。

The whole bench is made of sycamore,

整张长凳都是用悬铃木做的。

which you see a lot in Northern Ohio country furniture,

这种风格在俄亥俄州北部的乡村家具中很常见。

and all the joinery is done with hardware.

所有的榫接工艺都是用五金件完成的。

That's great news because hardware is easy to date.

这真是个好消息，因为硬件的年代很容易确定。

All the joints are done with screws,

所有的连接部位都是用螺丝固定的。

so this corner joint is made by screwing through the backboard into the sideboard.

所以这个角接接头是通过从背板拧入侧板的螺丝固定而成的。

All the side boards are screwed down into the seat and the corners are reinforced with these corner brackets.

所有侧板都用螺丝固定在座板上，各个角还使用了这些角码进行加固。

If we look at these brackets it's obvious that they're not as crisp

如果我们观察这些支架，很明显它们的边缘没有那么清晰。

and nice as something you'd buy today but they're definitely not hand forged.

做工精良，就像你今天会买到的那些东西一样，但它们绝对不是手工锻造的。

This is early factory made hardware.

这是早期工厂生产的五金件。

Now a lot of the screws especially on these brackets are modern replacements

现在很多螺丝，尤其是这些支架上的，都是现代替换件。

but it's easy to tell which screws are the old original ones.

但很容易分辨出哪些是原来的旧螺丝。

One of those original screws was loose and I very carefully backed it out to take a closer look.

其中一颗原装螺丝松了，我非常小心地把它拧出来仔细查看。

And this is a Gimlet Point screw.

这是一枚 Gimlet Point 螺丝。

This is the first generation of mass-produced affordable screws.

这是第一代量产平价螺丝。

Before this, screws were actually made one at a time,

在此之前，螺丝实际上都是逐个手工制作的。

hand-filed by the blacksmith, and they were so rare and expensive,

由铁匠手工锉制而成，它们极为稀有且价格昂贵。

they were only used to hold hardware on fancy pieces of furniture for rich people.

它们最初只是用来固定富人高档家具上的五金件。

The gimlet screw was a huge leap forward because it made screws much more plentiful and much cheaper.

手拧螺丝是一项巨大的进步，因为它让螺丝的产量大幅提升，成本也大幅降低。

The gimlet screw was invented in 1845,

手拧螺丝发明于1845年，

but you've got to give it a couple decades to spread across the country and get inexpensive.

但你得给它几十年时间，让它普及到全国，价格也变得亲民。

Nobody would have used new expensive hardware on a cheap country wagon.

没有人会在一辆廉价的乡村马车上使用昂贵的新硬件。

So looking at all the hardware and the timbers here,

那么，看看这里所有的五金件和木材，

I think we can say that this bench was made somewhere between 1860 and 1890.

我认为我们可以断定这张长凳的制作年代在1860年到1890年之间。

Which is pretty exciting, because that means the seat for this bench is real,

这真的很让人兴奋，因为这意味着这条长凳的座位是真实存在的。

it's old, and it's local.

它很有年头，而且是本地的。

The seat of this bench is cool all by itself,

这张长椅的坐面本身就很凉快。

but somebody took that wagon seat and converted it into a real piece of household furniture.

但有人把那个马车座椅改造成了一件真正的家用家具。

How did they do that?

他们是怎么做到的？

Did they do a good job?

他们做得好吗？

And personally, I also want to know when it happened,

而且就我个人而言，我也想知道这件事是什么时候发生的。

and maybe most importantly, who did the conversion?

而且或许最重要的是，是谁进行了转换？

Now, I've got answers to all of these questions.

现在，我已经找到了所有这些问题的答案。

Some of the answers are going to surprise you.

有些答案会让你大吃一惊。

Overall, the maker did a great job with this conversion.

总的来说，制作者在这次改装上做得非常出色。

He started by screwing big battens to the underside of the seat.

他首先将大木条拧到座椅的底面。

Screws are smart here because that allows for wood movement.

这里使用螺丝是很明智的，因为这样可以让木材有伸缩的空间。

Then, he sent the leg tenons all the way through the batten and the seat.

然后，他将腿榫一直穿过压条和座面。

This is called staked construction.

这被称为桩式结构。

And sending those tenons through the batten and the seat means they're going through a big,

将这些榫头穿过压条和座板，意味着它们要穿过一个较大的

thick chunk of wood.

厚实的木块。

that's going to be stable.

那会很稳定的。

The ends of the tenons are trimmed nice and level with the seat,

榫头的末端被修整得与座面齐平光滑。

and they're wedged with thick pieces of hardwood.

而且它们被厚实的硬木片楔住了。

These are all techniques that I used last year when I made my three Moravian stools.

这些都是我去年制作那三把摩拉维亚凳时用到的技巧。

These are traditional, dependable techniques for taking a board and turning it into a piece of seating.

这些是传统且可靠的工艺，能将一块木板改造成一件坐具。

But what kind of woodworker was this?

但这位是怎样的一位木工师傅呢？

What sorts of tools did he use?

他使用了哪些类型的工具？

Well, mostly machine tools.

嗯，主要是机床。

There's a great angled bevel on the end of each of these battens,

这些木条的每一端都有一个非常漂亮的斜角。

and it's got the super precise look that you really only get with a table saw.

而且它拥有只有台锯才能达到的超高精度外观。

It's the same thing with the tenons on the ends of these legs.

这些桌腿末端的榫头也是同样的情况。

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They are ultra perfect, so it looks like they were done with a lathe.

它们极其完美，看起来就像是用车床加工出来的。

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And on top of that,

而且除此之外，

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there's clear marks left from lathe dead centers on the ends of the legs.

支腿的端部留有车床顶尖留下的清晰痕迹。

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These were definitely done on a pretty early electric lathe.

这些肯定是在一台相当早期的电动车床上加工出来的。

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And on top of that,

而且除此之外，

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there's planer marks on these battens,

这些板条上有刨床留下的痕迹。

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so they were run through a planer or an early jointer.

所以它们会被送到压刨或早期的平刨机里进行加工。

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It's tough to say, but they definitely weren't hand planed.

很难说，但它们肯定不是用手工刨子刨出来的。

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Now, what's interesting is these legs are beveled on the sides to make them into an octagon,

现在，有趣的是这些桌腿的侧面都做了斜切处理，形成了八边形的形状。

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and those bevels are very irregular.

而且那些斜面非常不规则。

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They were either done with a jack plane and done pretty quickly,

这些活儿要么是用粗刨子完成的，而且做得相当快。

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or maybe with a draw knife or a spokeshave.

或者用拉刨或者辐刨也行。

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So this guy was using a combination of hand tools and machine tools.

所以这个人当时同时使用手动工具和机械工具。

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He was a hybrid woodworker.

他是一位跨界木工师傅。

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Or maybe at the time that he did it, everybody was hybrid.

或者说，在他做这件事的时候，每个人都是混合体。

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They just called it woodworking.

他们当时就只叫它木工活。

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Now even with those details,

即便有了这些细节，

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it's still hard to put a date on this conversion,

要确定这次转变的确切时间仍然很困难。

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and we're going to have to look at some smaller details,

我们还得再看看一些更细节的地方。

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like the screws that hold the battens to the seat.

就像那些把板条固定在座椅上的螺丝一样。

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If you just look at these quickly,

如果你只是快速扫一眼这些东西，

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they look just like the same slot head gimlet point screws we find on the top of the seat,

它们看起来和我们在座椅顶部找到的那些一字槽尖头螺丝一模一样。

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but there are some key differences.

但存在一些关键差异。

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They're bigger, they have a cleaner appearance,

它们更大，外观也更整洁。

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and they've got a shiny silver surface.

而且它们有着闪亮的银色表面。

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These are galvanized screws that were dipped in zinc to keep them from rusting.

这些是镀锌螺丝，它们经过浸锌处理以防止生锈。

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And galvanized screws didn't come in until the early 1900s,

镀锌螺丝直到20世纪初才开始普及使用。

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and they wouldn't have become cheap and popular for a little while after that.

它们也不会在那之后的一段时间里变得既便宜又普及。

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This kind of hardware pushes the restoration into probably the 1920s,

这种硬件设备将修复工作的年代推定为大约20世纪20年代。

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maybe the 1930s, but there are some other important details we have to look at.

可能是20世纪30年代，但还有一些其他重要细节我们必须加以考量。

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Around the base of each of these tenons,

在每个榫头的根部周围，

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there is clear squeeze out of yellow glue.

有明显的黄色胶被挤出。

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And believe me, I know exactly how that happens when you're making a staked piece of furniture like this.

相信我，我完全清楚制作这种榫接家具时会出现这种情况的原因。

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You put glue on those tenons,

你在那些榫头上涂胶水，

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you pound them into the mortises,

你把它们敲进榫眼。

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and then you immediately flip the thing over so you can wedge the other side before that glue sets up.

然后你立刻把这个东西翻过来，这样就能在胶水凝固之前把另一边楔入固定。

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With this style of construction,

采用这种施工方式，

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having some glue drip down those tenons is unavoidable.

让一些胶水顺着榫头流下来是不可避免的。

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Believe me, I've been here,

相信我，我经历过这种情况。

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and this is very clear evidence of yellow glue.

这是黄胶存在的非常明确的证据。

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It looks exactly like modern stuff.

它看起来和现代的东西一模一样。

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Yellow wood glue didn't come in until 1951 when the Titebond Corporation introduced it.

黄色木工胶直到1951年才由Titebond公司推出问世。

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Yep, same people we're still giving our money to today.

没错，就是这些人，我们现在还在把钱交给他们。

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That glue didn't exist until the early 50s,

那种胶水直到五十年代初才问世。

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which means this conversion couldn't have been done until the early 1950s.

这意味着这种转换直到20世纪50年代初才得以完成。

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Now we know when and how this was done,

现在我们知道这件事是在什么时候、如何完成的了。

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but I want to know who.

但我想知道是谁。

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Who was the woodworker who made this buckboard into a piece of furniture?

是哪位木工把这辆四轮运货马车改造成了一件家具？

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And we can figure that out,

我们可以弄清楚这一点，

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but to do it, we have to stop looking at the things he did well and examine his mistakes.

但要做到这一点，我们就不能再只盯着他做得好的地方，而是要审视他的错误。

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Because he made a couple, and they're pretty big.

因为他做了一对，而且尺寸还挺大的。

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The craftsman used screws to connect the battens to the seat,

工匠用螺丝将板条固定在座椅上。

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but he didn't use enough of them.

但他用得还不够多。

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He used three screws in a simple diagonal line,

他用了三颗螺丝，呈简单的对角线排列。

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but he should have used more.

但他本该用得更多一些。

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You can see that over on the corner here where there is no screw,

你可以看到在这边没有螺丝的那个角落，

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the seat is pulling away from the batten,

座椅正从板条上脱落。

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and the same thing is happening here on the opposite corner.

对面的角落也发生着同样的情况。

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What he should have done is used two screws on either end and one screw in the middle.

他本该在两端各用一颗螺丝，中间再用一颗螺丝的。

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That would have given him a tighter connection.

那样会让他的联系更紧密。

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I can actually flex this batten just with my hands,

我居然只用手就能掰弯这根板条。

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and it would have held the seat much flatter.

而且它原本能让座椅保持得更加平整。

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When I made my simple Moravian stool last year,

去年我制作那把简易的摩拉维亚凳子时，

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I used that two-two-one screw pattern,

我用的是那种二二一的螺丝排布方式。

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and it was super solid.

而且它非常稳固。

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I didn't make this up.

这不是我编的。

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I saw it on traditional furniture.

我在传统家具上看到过它。

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The other big problem is with these leg joints.

另一个大问题出在这些腿部关节上。

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The tenons are great.

这些榫头做得非常好。

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They've been turned perfectly.

它们被车削得非常完美。

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The issue is the transition from the tenon back to the fat part of the leg.

问题出在从榫头过渡到支腿粗大部分的位置。

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This detail here, woodturners would call this a pommel,

这里的这个细节，木旋工们会称之为鞍头，

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and it looks really nice,

而且它看起来真的很不错。

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but it's much too abrupt of a transition.

但这个过渡实在太突兀了。

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There's even a clearly defined shoulder between the tenon and the pommel,

榫头与柄首之间甚至有一道轮廓清晰的肩台。

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and that's a big problem.

而这是个大问题。

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In construction like this, you really need this part of the leg to be a smooth taper.

在这种结构中，你确实需要腿部的这一部分是平滑的锥形。

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So as you apply pressure to the seat,

当你向座椅施加压力时，

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that tapered section can get forced deeper into that hole and tighten that connection.

那个锥形部分可以被压入孔内更深的位置，从而让连接变得更紧固。

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When you have a shoulder,

当你有一个依靠时

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that actually gives you a leverage point.

这实际上给了你一个可以借力的支点。

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The leg can work back and forth and over time it's guaranteed to loosen.

这条支腿可以来回活动，时间长了肯定会松动。

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And look, I'm not trying to pick on this guy,

你看，我不是想故意找这个人的茬，

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but he made some other strange choices.

但他做出了其他一些奇怪的选择。

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Like the legs are made out of really lightweight construction lumber,

那些桌腿就像是用非常轻的建筑木材做的，

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probably western red cedar.

很可能是西部红雪松。

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It's what they frame all the houses around here with.

这就是他们用来搭建这一带所有房屋框架的材料。

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These are just 2x4s that have been ripped in half,

这些只是被对半锯开的2x4规格木料。

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and he even left some giant flaws and knots in them.

他甚至还在上面留下了一些巨大的瑕疵和木节。

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This leg has a knot the size of a quarter.

这条腿上有个硬币大小的肿块。

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I can't believe it hasn't snapped yet.

我真不敢相信它到现在还没断。

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And I know, I know,

而且我知道，我知道，

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you're thinking, Rex, you're obviously just nitpicking this guy.

你肯定在想，雷克斯，你这分明是在故意挑这个人的刺。

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If the construction was so bad, it would've loosened up.

如果施工质量这么差的话，它早就松动了。

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The thing is, it did.

事实就是，它确实做到了。

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This leg is super loose.

这条腿松得厉害。

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And so is this leg.

这条腿也是如此。

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And so are the other two.

另外两个也是如此。

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Nobody sits on this bench anymore, because they can't.

再也没有人坐在这张长椅上了，因为他们根本坐不了。

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We're all afraid it'll break.

我们都怕它会坏掉。

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And when you add it all up,

当你把所有这些加起来时，

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I finally know who did this.

我终于知道这是谁干的了。

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It was a home gamer,

这是一款家用游戏机，

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a hobbyist, somebody like us.

一个业余爱好者，就像我们这样的人。

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Somebody who had access to maybe not the best wood and a mixture of tools,

有些人可能只能用不太好的木材和各种拼凑的工具，

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one or two fancy electric tools and a couple of old hand tools,

一两件精致的电动工具和几把旧的手动工具，

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maybe passed down from his dad or his grandfather.

也许是从他父亲或祖父那里传下来的。

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And this was probably done in the 1950s.

这很可能是在20世纪50年代完成的。

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Everything about it says 50s.

它的每一处细节都透着50年代的风格。

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And man, what an exciting time that must have been to be a woodworker.

天哪，那时候当一名木工该是多么令人兴奋的一段时光啊。

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World War II in the rearview mirror,

第二次世界大战已成过往，

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time for leisure and fun.

是享受休闲与乐趣的时刻了。

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And finally, there were affordable woodworking machines,

最后，还有价格实惠的木工机械。

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things that you could just plug into the wall and you could buy on a working man's salary.

那些只需插墙就能使用、靠工薪阶层的薪水就能买得起的东西。

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Stuff like a modest size electric lathe or a little table saw.

比如一台尺寸适中的电动车床，或是一台小型台锯这类东西。

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They even had crazy combo machines like a table saw with a built-in jointer.

他们甚至还有一些很特别的组合机器，比如带有内置平刨的台锯。

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Those things probably weren't a good idea or we'd still be doing them.

那些做法很可能本来就不是什么好主意，不然我们现在还会继续用。

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They probably weren't very safe.

它们当时可能不太安全。

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But there must have been a great sense of possibility.

但当时肯定充满了无限可能。

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You know, even if you didn't train as a furniture maker,

你知道，即使你没有接受过家具制作的专业训练，

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even if you were just a little bit handy,

就算你只是稍微有点动手能力，

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you could buy a couple of machines,

你可以买几台机器，

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you could read popular mechanics,

你可以读《大众机械》。

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and you could make stuff in your own basement.

而且你可以在自己的地下室里制作东西。

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I mean, I'm a hand tool guy,

我的意思是，我是个喜欢用手动工具的人，

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and I go for stuff that was made longer ago in a different tradition,

我会选择那些创作年代更久远、属于不同传统的作品。

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but I still think back on that suburban person working in their basement

但我仍然会想起那个在地下室工作的郊区居民

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or their garage back in the 50s

或者是他们在50年代的车库

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and i think yeah it was the same spirit the same idea it must have been incredibly fun

而且我觉得，没错，那是同样的精神，同样的理念，那一定非常有趣。

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and even

甚至

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if this piece has some flaws it looks great consistent color

这件作品即便有一些小瑕疵，整体看起来也很棒，颜色均匀一致。

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nice angles on the legs a real unity it doesn't look like two things just jammed together

腿部的角度设计得很好，整体非常协调，看起来不像是两个东西生硬拼接在一起的。

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and yeah it's a little rickety i'm not going to sit on it

是的，它有点晃，我不会坐上去的。

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but I think this thing was converted into a bench 70 years ago

但我觉得这个东西在70年前就被改造成了一张长椅。

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and it's still being used as a little rustic coffee table you gotta call

而且它现在还被当作一个有点乡村风格的小咖啡桌用，你一定要看看。

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that a win you gotta call the whole piece a win

这绝对是一场完胜，你得说整件事都办得漂亮。

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and it's been extremely fun to look at pieces like this

欣赏这样的作品真的非常有趣

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videos like this are why I love my patrons this is

正是因为有这样的视频，我才如此热爱我的赞助者们。

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a weird woodworking video the algorithm doesn't like stuff like this it's not gonna get a million views,

一个奇怪的木工视频，算法不喜欢这种内容，它不会获得百万播放量。

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nobody would ever want to sponsor a video like this,

根本不会有人愿意赞助这样的视频。

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but my patrons like this sort of thing.

但我的顾客就喜欢这类东西。

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In fact, this is the most requested video from my patrons because they're interested in the details.

事实上，这是我的赞助者们最常要求我制作的视频，因为他们对这些细节很感兴趣。

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They want to get into the weeds and know about the little stuff,

他们想要深入细节，了解那些细枝末节的东西。

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and they let me make these sorts of historical kind of academic videos

他们还让我制作这类历史类的学术视频。

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that I would never get to make otherwise and i'm incredibly grateful for

那些我原本永远没有机会做出的成就，我对此无比感激。

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that i try to show my gratitude by doing a ton

我会通过付出很多努力来表达我的感激之情。

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of things for my patrons free plans discussion forum we're doing

为我的赞助者准备的各种内容，还有我们正在搭建的免费方案讨论论坛

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a build along series where i give them a tiny little

一个我会给他们一点点指导的同步搭建系列教程

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bit of a table build every week we're building a little

每周我们都会做一点桌子组装的活儿，慢慢搭建起一个小桌子。

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shaker table together like five minutes at a time it's a lot of fun

振动台每次一起运行大约五分钟，非常有趣。

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and if you'd like to get in on that fun patreon.com rex kruger

如果你也想参与其中，欢迎访问patreon.com/rexkruger

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if you'd like to build a moravian stool or a number of other pieces of traditional furniture,

如果你想制作一把摩拉维亚凳或其他多款传统家具，

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check out rexkruger.com slash shop where we've got all of our plans.

去rexkruger.com/shop看看，我们所有的方案都在那里。

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You can build a workbench,

你可以搭建一个工作台，

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a shave horse, all sorts of stuff.

一个刨马架，还有各种各样的东西。

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Anyway, thanks for coming along on this trip with me.

总之，谢谢你陪我一起踏上这段旅程。

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It's been incredibly fun.

这真的非常有趣。

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I can't wait to do it again.

我迫不及待想再做一次。

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I'll see you soon.

很快就能见到你了。

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背景与上下文

在这段视频中，讲解者对一件特殊的家具——“巴克板长椅”进行了详细说明。通过对家具的历史和制作工艺的探讨，观众不仅能够了解这件物品的独特之处，还能从中学习到多种与家具制作有关的英语表达方式。这种学习方式非常适合想提高英语口语练习技能的学生，尤其是在处理具体物品名称和相关对话时。

日常交流中的五个短语

Do you have permission to borrow this? - 你有借这个的许可吗？
I saw you admiring it. - 我看到你在欣赏它。
This was a real trend in furniture making. - 这在家具制作中确实是一种潮流。
It looks worn and old. - 它看起来磨损且老旧。
Made by hand. - 手工制作的。

逐步跟读练习指南

针对该视频中的对话内容，若想有效提高您的shadow speak和雅思口语练习能力，您可以按照以下步骤进行练习：

初步观看：首次观看时，专注于整体内容，不必担心细节。了解讲解者的主要思想和背景。
精听短语：暂停视频，把上述短语写下来，并逐句重复。可以先慢速跟读，再逐渐加快速度，以便更好地掌握语调和发音。
模仿对话：选择重要的片段进行反复播放，尝试模仿讲解者的语气、节奏和语调。此过程中，注意语音的细微差异，探讨发音的技巧。
结合实际：在日常交流中尽量使用这些短语。可以与学习伙伴进行角色扮演，模拟家具购买、欣赏等场景，加深印象。
持续反馈：记录自己的朗读，供自己回听，找出需要改进的地方。定期与他人分享你的进展和收获，以增强学习动力。

通过这些实践，您不仅能提高shadow speech能力，还能更深入地理解和应用英语，增强语言自信心。当您学会如何自如地讨论不同主题时，您的英语口语练习会变得更加流畅和自然。

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	were created · have been used · was definitely made
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	I've been · They've been turned · have been ripped

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