What are the advantages and disadvantages of old elm furniture, how to maintain old elm furniture

Hello, elm is a common tree species in the north, from the Yellow River basin to the North China Plain, so elm is also a common wood in northern China. As a wood, elm is hard, physically strong, resistant to corrosion and moisture, and has good elasticity. In addition, due to the huge shape of the tree, the width of the wood is also very wide, and it is often used to erect house beams in ancient times, or used for large-scale engineering construction, and can also be used for processing into large pieces of furniture.

Elm and the beech of southern China are also called "northern elm and southern beech."

Advantages of elm furniture:

1. Elm furniture is particularly durable, the paint painted is varnish, which is painted in the way of manual lacquer, so it has the characteristics of environmental protection and pollution-free, and it will not emit an unpleasant smell, the raw material required to make elm furniture takes more than 50 years, so the density of elm wood is particularly large, the wood is relatively hard, and the texture is also very beautiful.

2. Yulin furniture does not need a nail, the structure is rigorous, the workmanship is delicate, and the frame structure used in the production of Yulin furniture is simple and firm, which does not violate the principle of mechanics.

3. Elm furniture has the characteristics of accessibility, clear planing surface, and the chord pattern is particularly beautiful, a bit like wenge.

4. The price is not expensive, as a cost-effective furniture material, especially suitable for mass consumption.

Disadvantages of elm furniture:

1.Elm wood is divided into new and old, easy to deform, love long insects, and serious shrinkage are the shortcomings of new elm furniture; The disadvantage of old elm is that there will be old insect eyes, old cracks, old tenon eyes, etc. in some places.

2.After the drying room is strictly dried elm furniture is not easy to crack, but elm is not easy to dry, now there are many elm boards on the market due to many problems in cost or equipment, the drying of wood is not in place, so the elm furniture made is easy to crack and deform.