How to distinguish the real from the fake with mahogany furniture?

The simple identification methods of mahogany mainly include looking, smelling, asking, cutting, and dipping.

One look: Observe the three sections of the wood, i.e., the cross-section, the chord section and the radial section. Most of the characteristics of the wood can be observed in the first two sections. For example, wenge wood has obvious chicken wing patterns on the chord section.

Second smell: Different types of mahogany have their own smell characteristics, either fragrant or sour or no special smell, just as perfume has different fragrance types. For example, Cochin Sandalwood (big red sour branch) has a sour fragrance, Rosewood has a faint milk fragrance, and Dalbergia (Huanghuali) has a fragrance and is elegant.

Three questions: ask about the name of the wood, the place of origin, the density, the moisture content and other information.

Four cuts: When buying furniture and other products, the most direct thing is to touch with your hands, touch the material of the wood, and weigh the weight of the wood. If necessary, cut or scrape the surface of the wood (usually the back or hidden area) to see the texture of the face.

In this way, the preliminary identification before the scientific examination can be done in place.

Five dips: Some rosewoods of the genus Rosewood, such as Rosewood and Rosewood, will show a layer of blue-green fluorescence after soaking in water for a period of time. To some mahogany furniture enterprises stacking raw materials, in case of water immersion or rainy days, you can see the blue fluorescence of the liquid surface of the water accumulation, which can be preliminarily identified as rosewood.

The way to tell whether mahogany is real or fake is:

First, the board. Generally, when we buy mahogany, we can see whether the texture is consistent on both sides of the mahogany, if the texture on both sides is inconsistent, then 99% of this mahogany furniture is fake. For example, if there are three lines on the front of a mahogany furniture, then there should also be three lines on the back of it.

As shown in the figure: 2. Sandpaper. We can find some places in the furniture that do not affect the aesthetics, for example, drawers, bottom plates, we take another piece of sandpaper, wipe the texture of this furniture for ten minutes.

If it is real mahogany, then the grain on the mahogany will be consistent and will not fade.

If it is a fake mahogany, such as a fake mahogany with a skin, after wiping for 10 minutes, it will not only fade, but also peel. Three.

Hydrogen peroxide. We can go to the pharmacy for 2 to 3 yuan, buy a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, on the texture of the mahogany, drop a few drops of hydrogen peroxide, after 24 hours, the real mahogany grain will be clearer, and the fake mahogany will fade.

Peeling and other phenomena.

Fourth, the electric drilling method.

If the above three methods to find the guys can not distinguish the real from the fake mahogany, then, we can not affect the beauty of the furniture.

For example, the legs, the bottom, and then use a small hand drill, in the mahogany, bricks for a minute, if the wood powder comes out, it is fake mahogany, if the brick comes out of wood cutting, there is a section of the grain, that is real mahogany, real solid wood. Five.

Look at the wood grain, use hand masks, and smell the smell. We can also look at the texture of mahogany furniture from the outside to identify real and fake mahogany, like red acid branches, such mahogany, you can see that its texture is, black and red, the texture, is a long line, radioactive, and pores have fine lines.

Then touch it with your hands, feel the feel of the touch, it is very comfortable, and finally smell it, smell it, feel the smell of mahogany, smell its breath.

1. Look at the material. When buying mahogany furniture, you should have a general understanding of the mahogany material 2. Look at the style. Mahogany furniture has a bit of awakening Chinese characteristics, some of the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and some of the Republic of China and modern imitation European style, but the fundamental mahogany furniture style is still based on Chinese elements.

3. Look at the weight. Real mahogany furniture is tight, sturdy and sturdy, heavier than ordinary furniture. 4. Look at the workmanship, mahogany furniture is a unique mortise and tenon structure in China, and it is certainly not mahogany furniture without this structure.

The above four can basically identify mahogany furniture. In addition, you have to look at it more, look at it repeatedly, and after a long time, you will have the impression of mahogany furniture, which is of great help to you to identify the mahogany home. Thank you.

Guyi Sumu is the Bahua on the market, and the price is low-end.

It does not belong to the national standard mahogany, but it is a more common wood species in the mahogany furniture market, that is to say, in the national standard, there is no red guibao this wood, but this wood is very popular in the mahogany furniture industry, the texture is staggered and beautiful, and the market is going well, and finally back to your answer:

By national standards, he is not mahogany.

In terms of popular preference, he belongs to Mahogany.

You get the idea?

You can go to a special testing place to get tested.

For the chaotic market, mastering a certain ability to identify is a reliable umbrella. It is understood that consumers can identify the authenticity and types of mahogany through wood grain. Wood grain is a texture of wood, just like a human fingerprint, a quality that is born and cannot be changed.

After coloring the wood, the wood grain will also be more noticeable. The sorrel tree from Laos and Myanmar has a heavy black water pattern because it grows in water depressions. The rosewood of Laos should be yellow-brown in color, and have the hairy feeling of animal fur, commonly known as cow hair pattern and braid pattern.

Wenge wood from Myanmar with a black wing-like pattern. Mahogany is dense and sinks in water. But heavy wood is not equal to mahogany.

Some hard wood has a short growth cycle, and it can grow into a stout tree in two or three years, and it will also be very heavy. However, such wood is small, not tough enough, brittle, and often has small holes that are visible to the naked eye. This heavy wood does not have the value of mahogany.

Identifying the authenticity of mahogany furniture can be started from the following aspects:

Look at the lines to find flaws.

Now, the level of low-grade miscellaneous wood furniture veneer is higher, the veneer is more and more realistic, and consumers are difficult to distinguish for a while, such as the door panel, panel, side panel, etc. with cloud fragrant wood veneer, the core wood is MDF, or with low-density board, particleboard as the "core", and then use precious wood veneer outside, and then mark the price of solid wood furniture.

Usually in the veneer of mahogany furniture, will not be all veneer, generally large edges, trowels make real materials, linear complex parts are real materials, usually veneer will be used on the core board, and both sides of the front and back should be veneered, but the texture of the wood to the two sides can not be completely consistent. By carefully distinguishing the wood grain, you can always see the flaws in it. In addition, veneer furniture does not burn wax, because the wax will make the place where the skin is blistered.

Generally, a thin layer of wax or walnut oil is rubbed or painted.

Smell to identify.

Furniture veneer, it is necessary to use glue, and we also have tricks to identify. The traditional skin sticking process uses pig maw glue, why make pig maw glue? Because it will blister and wrinkle when sticking the skin, the use of pig maw glue can drive the air out, and it is very flat when ironed with a soldering iron, while general chemical glue can't do it.

To identify the pig maw glue, you can rub it vigorously with your hands, grind the surface hot, and smell it with your nose, and there is a fishy smell. If you paint it, the smell method will not work, but you can smell the back, often the front of the core board is lacquered but the back is not.

Listen to the sound differentiation.

Mahogany veneer, which does not use too good wood, often uses low-density pear, sour branch wood (white sour branch, flower branch), etc., which can be distinguished by the sound when struck. Generally, the dense mahogany has a "tang sound", that is, the echo of the urn sound, just like the ringtone of the mobile phone has a chord, which is a pleasant crisp sound; And the low-density mahogany, such as the pear pear, is just a very brittle "pop" sound.

Stroke to the touch temperature.

Touching the surface of furniture with your hands to determine the change in temperature is also a way to identify the density of wood. Generally, the density of wood is high, the heat transfer is fast, and the moment it is touched, it will feel cooler; Compared with less dense wood, heat transfer is slower and the feel temperature is higher.