How to distinguish real and fake red sour branch wood furniture?

How to distinguish the real from the fake? First, look at the white stubble. With a knife, scrape a few times on the inside of the big red sour branch furniture, and see the sawdust falling, revealing new red stubble inside.

Second, look at the texture. Generally speaking, the dark-colored large red acid branches are dense, the growth rings are tight, and the texture is clear and straight. The light-colored large red sour branches are relatively small, the growth rings are loose, some dark, and the surface looks like a layer of fog.

Sour branch wood: tropical and subtropical regions, mainly produced in Southeast Asian countries. The wood color is not uniform, the heartwood is orange, light reddish-brown to black-brown, and the dark stripes are obvious.

The wood is shiny, sour or sour, oblique and staggered, high density, greasy, hard and wear-resistant.

There are many kinds of sorrel-branched sorrel trees, which are butterfly-shaped flowers of the subfamily Dalbergia in the legume family. In the genus Dalbergia, except for Hainan Island, which is called "fragrant branch" (commonly known as Huanghua pear), the rest belong to the sour branch. There are three types of sour branches, black sour branches, red sour branches, and white sour branches.

Their common characteristic is that they emit a smell of edible vinegar during processing, hence the name sour branch. Some species have a strong taste, while others have a weak taste. The name of the sour branch is widely used in Guangdong, and the north of the Yangtze River is called "mahogany".

Strictly speaking, the name of mahogany is neither scientific nor academic, it is a general name formed when some people do not know the various types of wood, and it belongs to the layman's language.

Among the three kinds of sorrel trees, black sorrel wood is the best. Its color ranges from purple-red to purple-brown or purple-black, the wood is hard, and the polishing effect is good. Some are very close to rosewood, and are often mistaken for rosewood, but most of them have coarse textures.

The texture of the red sour branch is more obvious than that of the black sour branch, the texture is straight, and the color is mostly jujube red.

The color of the white sour branch is much lighter than that of the red sour branch, and the color is close to that of the grass flower pear. Sometimes it is easy to confuse with grass flower pear.

At present, there are a large number of black acid branch products in the new imitation furniture on the market, which are sold as rosewood products. It is sometimes difficult for experienced experts to tell the difference, and even more so for collectors at large. In recent years, some people in China have imported a large number of high-quality timber from Madagascar, which has been sold, and they all thought that it was red sandalwood at first, but after many researches, it was actually not red sandalwood, but a kind of black wood in the genus Dalbergia, and the scientific name was "Lu's black sandalwood".

The National Forestry Research Institute of Madagascar also sent an official letter to China's forestry department, stating that Madagascar does not produce red sandalwood at all, and the high-quality timber exported by Madagascar, including timber exported to China, is "Lu's black sandalwood".

In the genus Dalbergia, there are many species that are purple-black or purplish-red in color. Its hardness is no less than that of serious rosewood. Some are indeed comparable to Zibu Gaotan. It is a beautiful material for traditional furniture.

How to distinguish the real from the fake? First, look at the white stubble. With a knife, I scraped a few times on the inside of the furniture with a row of noisy branches in the big red sour banquet, and saw the sawdust falling, revealing new red stubble inside.

Second, look at the texture. Generally speaking, the dark-colored large red acid branches are dense, the growth rings are tight, and the texture is clear and straight. The light-colored large red sour branches are relatively small, the growth rings are loose, some dark, and the surface looks like a layer of fog.