How to distinguish wenge furniture from fake

1.See if it's veneer wenge furniture. 2.Be cautious about darker wenge furniture to see if you use a lot of white leather. 3.There is no need to emphasize "one-size-fits-all". Wenge is not short of materials, and it is not uncommon to have a single board.

1. Old wenge. Wenge wood furniture in the Ming Dynasty and some furniture in the early Qing Dynasty used this wenge wood. It is not difficult to distinguish between old wenge, first of all, the weight, the old wenge is light, the lightest in the hardwood family, and it is not even worth some"Firewood", such as beech.

A piece of wenge furniture, you can know whether it is old wenge wood by weighing the weight; The second is the color, the old wenge wood gray, especially after a long time of wax loss, its color is earthy gray, extremely ugly. After waxing, the color is slightly lighter, and the texture of the chicken wings can be distinguished; The third is that the texture is not very obvious, the old wenge wood is not as beautiful as imagined, and the inexperienced are often confused with iron wood.

2. New wenge. The new wenge wood mentioned here is a product of the Qing Dynasty. From the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the old wenge wood was sold out, and the new wenge wood appeared.

The color of the new wenge is slightly heavier, brown, and the color is slightly yellow in the grain; The weight is heavier, and it can be distinguished from the old wenge wood by the amount of it; The texture is obvious, and the new wenge is more beautiful than the old wenge in the eyes of ordinary people.

There are three main types to discern:

1. Old wenge: Wenge wood furniture in the Ming Dynasty and some furniture in the early Qing Dynasty all use old wenge wood.

The first is the weight, the second is the color, and the third is that the texture is not very obvious;

2. New wenge: The new wenge mentioned here is still a product of the Qing Dynasty.

The color of the new wenge is slightly heavier, brown, and the color is slightly yellow in the grain; The weight is heavier, and it can be distinguished from the old wenge wood by weight; The texture is obvious, and the new wenge is more beautiful than the old wenge in the eyes of ordinary people. The new wenge fiber is coarse, the toughness is good, and it is not easy to carve, so all those who use the new wenge wood carving are rough.

3. Fake wenge: There is no fake wenge wood, in order to be different from the old and new wenge, I have to use the word "fake" to distinguish.

One look at this kind of wood will think that it is unbearable and too beautiful; In terms of color, it is contrary to the convergence of old wenge, black and yellow, gaudy and vulgar; It is also overweight in weight, similar to mahogany; The most uncomfortable thing is that there is a smell during the construction of fake wenge wood, which is very unpleasant, and the Cantonese people call it "Jianguang Wu", the Zhejiang people call it "Tokyo wood", and the Suzhou people call it "Shatong wood".