In advance, I only do international shipping line, if you need to transport furniture, large items can contact me abroad. Because many customers have shipped solid wood furniture, so hard to collect some knowledge of solid wood furniture, hope to give people in need of help, but also hope not to affect the interests of some people. Okay, let's get to the point:
The commonly used wood in the furniture market is shown below, including pine, rubber, birch, beech, elm, ash, oak, cherry, black walnut, etc.
Low-grade wood: pine, Chinese fir and other soft materials, often used as solid wood furniture accessories, such as drawers, back panels, but also can be made of children's furniture, cheap, natural environmental protection.
Middle-class wood: rubber wood is widely used as hardwood because of its low price, and some large furniture brands also use this material. Alder, birch, tussah wood are about the same, the price is generally not high.
High-grade wood: beech and elm commonly known as Beech, has always been a popular material of folk furniture, the price of imported wood and mahogany are relatively close to the people, both ornamental and practical.
High-grade wood: beech and elm commonly known as Beech, has always been a popular material of folk furniture, the price of imported wood and mahogany are relatively close to the people, both ornamental and practical.
Pine: appearance and cost-effective, widely used for medium-grade solid wood furniture, many log furniture and children's furniture are used pine wood.
Advantages: natural color, clear and beautiful texture, simple modeling, full lines, good texture, durable, strong elasticity and breathability, good thermal conductivity and simple maintenance
Disadvantages: soft wood, easy to crack and deformation, easy to precipitate grease.
Tung wood: fast-growing, widely distributed, used in daily necessities, especially as an auxiliary material for high-grade furniture, is the main material for drawers, bed boards and back panels in China.
Advantages: resistance to moisture insulation and wear resistance, non-warping and deformation, beautiful and colorful texture, easy to carve and dye
Disadvantages: lighter and softer, no sense of weight
Birch: fast-growing wood, the most prominent feature of which is texture, often used in construction, mosaic, and interior framing.
Advantages: easy processing, anti-use, smooth section, good paint glue, straight and obvious texture, fine structure, soft and smooth
Shortcomings: fiber shear resistance poor, easy to stubble break, dry easy to crack, not wear-resistant
Rubber wood: a tree species that produces rubber milk, having a short growth cycle, a wide range of sources, and a very high price-for-money ratio for furniture, which differs from oak in value for money, but in appearance, performance and price.
Advantages: good toughness, not easy to crack, easy maintenance, uniform texture, beautiful texture, easy carving and dyeing, good wear resistance, durable
Disadvantages: not easy to dry, easy to bend and deform, odor, sugar-rich, easy to change color, decay and insect decay
Elm: common tree species in the north, suitable for mass consumption, high cost-effective furniture materials, especially suitable for Chinese furniture.
Advantages: tough, elastic, durable, suitable for carving, similar to chicken wing wood pattern, beautiful texture, rough wood grain, clear, suitable for hot wax and wax oil painting, environmental protection
Disadvantages: the heart sapwood distinguishes obviously, has the color difference, the old elm wood and the home-made elm wood are easy to produce the insect
Beech: with the north of the elm known as the North Beech Ulmus, but due to excessive logging, is now a national level II protected plants. At present, most of the raw materials of beech furniture on the market are imported, suitable for making large pieces of furniture.
Advantages: heavy wood, hard and uniform texture, straight texture, clear, soft color, glossy, easy to bend under steam, can be used as curved wood
Disadvantages: crack and deformation are easy to come out when dry
Fraxinus mandshurica: it belongs to the third class cherish the protection plant, the decoration performance is good, such as the ash is beautiful, the furniture that makes is natural, modern, recent years decorates the widespread use of mandshurian ash.
Advantages: flat, tough, elastic, clear and beautiful texture, and very good-looking luster, can imitate precious wood species, corrosion resistance, moisture resistance, slow aging
Disadvantages: large shrinkage and deformation, not suitable for full solid wood
Oak: mainly produced in Europe and North America, divided into white oak and red oak, red oak not red, white oak not white, can not be distinguished by color. Furniture materials, more use of red oak, white oak price is more expensive. China's oak and oak similar texture, but no oak ideal. In addition, rubber wood is widely used in the market instead of oak.
Advantages: solid, good toughness, beautiful processing modeling, bright wood lines, good texture, not easy to absorb water, corrosion resistance
Disadvantages: difficult to process
Black walnut: after 50 years to grow into wood, one of the highest value varieties, furniture artistic expression is strong, belonging to the aristocrats of furniture, solid wood furniture has the function of preserving value.
Advantages: low moisture content, suitable for the production of high structure and strength, elegant wood color, exquisite and charming wood pattern, long-lasting paint and dyeing, not easy to absorb water, corrosion-resistant, not easy to deform
Disadvantages: expensive
The wood of furniture is divided into hardwood and cork. Hardwood is not necessarily hard (denser) and cork is not necessarily soft (less dense). The difference between hardwood and cork is related to plant reproduction. Hardwood trees are angiosperms, which produce seeds of some sort. Cork is gymnosperms whose seeds are not covered and fall directly to the ground. Usually, hardwood is deciduous and cork is evergreen. Hardwood includes cherry, elm, oak, birch, beech, hard maple, etc., usually at a higher price, but better quality than cork. Cork, including nanmu, camphor, pine, and so on, a wide variety of furniture, price acceptable to most people.
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