How To Choose Wood For Solid Wood Furniture?
Nowadays, with the improvement of living standards, modern people are becoming more and more particular about furniture life and advocate a healthy quality of life. Therefore, when choosing furniture, people choose to buy solid wood furniture. The price, service life and decorative effect of furniture of different wood species are also very different. It is necessary to accurately identify the tree species, choose suitable solid wood furniture, and understand the performance characteristics of some commonly used wood. Let's take a look at some common wood introductions.
1 Ash Wood
Ash is a dicotyledonous plant similar in appearance to European locust. Distributed and grown in North America and some parts of Europe, it is easy to machine with cutting tools, polished and resistant to corrosion. The compressive strength, static bending strength and grain tensile strength of wood are very large. Ash wood is mainly used to make luxury furniture. Flooring, high-end coat racks, decorative moldings, fine woodworking products, sports equipment, tool handles, etc. More widely used in machinery manufacturing, skis. Air-dry density 0.60 ~ 0.72g/cm3. This wood is usually straight, with a rough, uniform grain. Good workability, can be dyed and polished to obtain a good surface. Ash heartwood is moderately resistant to preservative treatments, while sapwood (sapwood) is penetrating. Ash is well suited for dry climates with minimal aging and little change in the heartwood.
2 Ebony Wood
Ebony wood is a large zebra wood in Africa; "Shoe wood bean", also known as "black sandalwood" (EBO, NY), anciently known as "Wu" or "Uwen" and so on. Ebony tree belongs to the Hematoxylinaceae Shoecao bean species, distributed in tropical, subtropical and some temperate regions of the world. The texture of black gold is good, resistant to decay, and not easy to be eaten by insects; the texture of the radiant color, different cutting methods will show completely different textures, some like flowing clouds and flowing water, some like leopard pattern wild, some like splashing ink elegant, creating Wonderful pattern. Wujinmu is a symbol of tenacious vitality. It is tenacious and strives to make progress. It is evergreen in all seasons, longevity, and can last for a hundred years. However, the change of water content of Wujinmu makes it easy to deform and crack, and cannot adapt to excessive cold or overheating, dry and humid conditions. environment. Ebony wood not only has a unique texture, but also has an incomprehensible temperament. During drying and processing, it often bursts on its own. If it is not handled properly or the craftsmanship is not up to standard, the wood is easy to rot for a long time, and the color of the wood will also fade.
3 Walnut Wood
Walnut, commonly known as walnut, is one of the most popular precious woods in the world, especially in European countries, walnut, mahogany and oak are also known as the three most precious woods. The hardness of walnut wood is medium to slightly hard and heavy, the fiber structure is fine and uniform, and it has strong toughness. There are mainly two kinds of walnut trees in China, walnut and walnut. Walnut furniture is almost unique furniture in Shanxi. The walnuts seen in the south are generally imported. To see clearly.
4 Pine
Pine wood furniture is both environmentally friendly and cheap, especially many children's furniture are made of pine wood. The main materials used for pine furniture are Masson pine and Pinus sylvestris, which are important raw materials for man-made fiberboard in decoration. Masson pine grain is straight or obliquely uneven, and the structure is medium to thick. The disadvantage is that the warping is more serious when drying, it is not resistant to corrosion, and the paint and bonding properties are poor. The nail-holding force is strong, and relatively speaking, it is less used in furniture as a woodworking board. The price of woodworking board is generally about 3 times that of fir integrated board or large core board of the same size. Pinus sylvestris is widely used as a material for mid-range solid wood furniture, and many log furniture are made of pine. Pine is stronger in material, clear in texture, and better in wood. Compared with fir, the wood grain of pine is more beautiful, and the wood scarring is less.
5 Oak
Oak is also a kind of decorative wood that everyone loves. Oak is a common name. The scientific name of real oak is called oak, which belongs to Fagaceae and Quercus. The red oak is called kenaf oak, and the white oak is called white sesame oak. In fact, the red oak is not really red, but the wood yellow is pinkish, and the white oak is not white, but light yellow, which causes the red oak White oak color difference is not very big. The characteristics of oak are heavy and hard, straight in texture, thick in structure, elegant in color and beautiful in texture, quite high in mechanical strength, and wear-resistant, but the wood is not easy to dry, sawing and cutting. The difference from the horizontal grain, the straight grain is better, and the price is slightly more expensive. One thing to pay attention to when using oak, many use Southeast Asian rubber wood to pretend to be oak, pay attention when buying wood and furniture. For rubber wood, the identification method is that rubber wood has peculiar smell, is easy to be eaten by insects and corrodes.
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