A glimpse of the mystery of solid wood: wood grain and scar knot.
This is the method of identifying the whole solid wood revealed by insiders.
For example, a cupboard door looks like a pattern, so the pattern on the back of the cupboard door should correspond to the position where the pattern changes. If the correspondence is good, it is a pure solid wood cabinet door.
In addition, looking at the scar knot is also a good way to identify pure wood: look at the position of the scar edge and find the corresponding pattern on the other side.
2. What kind of tree is solid wood made of, which directly affects the price and quality.
Ordinary solid wood furniture usually uses beech, white oak, ash, elm, beech, rubber wood and oak wood, while expensive mahogany furniture mainly uses "rosewood, chicken wing wood and rosewood".
The solid wood furniture market is chaotic, and there are often things like shoddy and confusing tree species. It is best to buy brand-name products. At the same time, note that the price of wood can only be higher and higher. Too cheap is definitely fraud.
3. Observe the advantages and disadvantages of wood.
Open the furniture doors and drawers to observe whether the wood is dry and white, and whether the texture is tight and delicate.
If you use furniture such as particleboard, density board and primary molding board, it is required that there is no irritating smell after opening the cupboard door or drawer.
4. Observe whether the wood is defective.
There should be no big knots or cracks in the main stress parts of furniture, such as the columns near the ground and the bearing rods connecting the columns.
The structure is firm, the frame shall not be loose, and the tenon and material are not allowed to be broken.
Don't buy a "three-in-one" particleboard saw, nail and paint; Don't buy furniture with "three noes" drawers. There are no bad edges, no tenons and no belts at the bottom.
Wood-based panel components used in furniture should be sealed, and all kinds of accessories should be installed without leaking nails or piercing nails.
5. Observe the strength of the plate.
How to choose elm furniture
Teach you to buy satisfactory elm furniture plates, and emphasize that you can press them with your fingers to feel the firmness of the plates.
One side of the material should be fixed with a grid-like fixture. If the skeleton is sparse, it will feel hollow and unreal when pressed on the surface, and the panel will vibrate greatly. The bottom of the drawer should be pressed by hand to test the strength. Generally, the bottom of the partition is multi-layered, and the partition with large area needs five layers.
Cabinet doors and drawer switches should be flexible.
When the panel is covered with veneer and other materials, it should be similar to the color of the complete set of products, and the paint film on the surface of the product is not allowed to wrinkle, stick to paint or leak paint.
6. Observe whether the drawer or door frame is tilted, whether the mortise position is crooked or the eye hole is too large, and whether the tenon is not tight and other parts are skewed.
Wooden furniture should be safe and stable. When the two cupboard doors are opened at 90 degrees, the cabinets can't be turned forward automatically by gently pulling them forward by hand. The glass of the bookcase door should be edged; Mirrors and dressing tables should be equipped with backboards, and the glass surface should be fixed with layering.
Individual parts of furniture (such as legs and feet, drawers, doors or brackets, etc.). ) there must be enough support.
You should nudge the upper corner of the furniture or sit aside to see if the furniture is firm.
7. Are the edges, tops, front and back joints of furniture joined by tenons, tongues and grooves, or by double tenons? Swallowtail joint or butterfly joint should be selected.
Heavy furniture should be tightened and glued with protective blocks at the corners.
As for the backboard, be sure to check whether the screws are embedded.
8. Check the slide rail and bolt of the drawer.
Drawers should be strong and firm, and screws should be tightened inside.
You may wish to open drawers, movable desktops, cupboard doors and other parts to ensure that you can use them freely and connect them correctly.
9. Put your hand on the surface of the furniture, and carefully check whether the polished surface is smooth, especially to avoid rough feet and other parts.
10. Turn the chairs and decorative furniture upside down and see how they are made.
As for the table, check it from the bottom.
See if the joint is reinforced with screws and wedges. Are the slats and rungs fastened tightly? Is there any extra glue and filler at the joint?
1 1. Pay special attention to the moisture content and origin of Furniture wood.
The climate in different regions of China has an influence on the moisture content of wood, and the moisture content of wood should not be higher than 65438 0% of the local equilibrium moisture content in the use area, otherwise the wood will easily be separated from the tenon and mortise, and the furniture will fall apart and warp due to large expansion and contraction.
Therefore, it is not important to buy mahogany furniture produced by companies with good drying equipment and technology. The key is whether its moisture content is consistent with the equilibrium moisture content of the use area.
There is an old saying that "solid wood can't cross the Yangtze River", that is to say, solid wood furniture produced in the south will crack and deform easily when it reaches the north because of the climate.
So when shopping, you should see the place of origin clearly.
& How about Xu Dong elm furniture &;
Elm furniture refers to furniture products made of elm, and there are also old elm furniture.
Elm is very tough, and its hardness is very suitable for making classical furniture. It is also convenient to do carving, embossing and other handicrafts on elm.
Moreover, its wood pattern is clear and the texture is similar to "chicken wing wood", which is very beautiful.
Therefore, it was often used as the raw material of furniture in ancient times.
Elm furniture usually needs drying, shaping, carving and painting. , so the treated elm is stronger and not easy to use. Elm furniture is very common in the northern furniture market.
The material of old elm furniture is elm that has been removed from the beam of the old house for many years. After decades or even hundreds of years of baptism, the moisture inside the wood has dried out, so it is not suitable for deformation, and the wood is excellent, which is very suitable for antique furniture.
After hundreds of years, the old elm has a great sense of historical vicissitudes, and the uneven wind patterns have a great personality.
The elm that has grown for hundreds of years is not an old elm, only the recycled old elm beams and old door panels are the real old elm.
Old elm wood is fine and rare, so it is very expensive and has high collection and use value.