Some interesting things about the ink flicker.

The ink flicker (also known as ink flicker, ink bouncer), is a tool used to shape a super straight line, which can be tens of meters long and still be straight. With a simple and neat design, including a nail head, ink absorbent coil, a cotton pad to hold the ink and the main body.

This is a tool with a very long history, recorded since ancient times (Egypt and East Asia) and widely used in many different cultures in the fields of surveying, architecture, carpentry, stone processing,...

Through thousands of years of history, the mechanism of tensioning and snapping the string has remained unchanged, only improvements have been made in materials such as plastic, iron, adding self-retracting springs, using colored chalk instead of traditional ink, etc.

There is an old story that says: when Mr. Lu Ban (the founder of carpentry in the Lu state in Chinese history), while using an ink flicker, someone had to hold the end of the string, which caused the other person's work to be interrupted. Seeing that, his mother came up with the idea of ​​just making a nail at the end of the rope and fixing it so she could do the job alone. For those who worship Lu Ban, the ink flicker is considered a tool protected by the ancestors. The ancients also considered the ink flicker to be an item capable of repelling bad energy, representing justice, uprightness, integrity and justice. Nowadays, the ink flicker is still an indispensable tool for workers. And perhaps because it carries so many profound meanings, ink flicking items are often crafted in a sophisticated and solemn way.

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