Identification of rubberwood furniture

Distinguish rubber wood furniture from oak furniture.

There are fewer high-quality tree species for oak furniture, and the price is higher. Due to its relatively distinct mountain wood grain, the clearer the oak wood grain, the higher the value. Rubberwood, on the other hand, does not have the characteristic wood grain of oak.

Oak has a characteristic sense of fineness. In general, there are more dark colors such as dining tables, and consumers can carefully check whether there is any coloring. There is also to see whether the wood color is pure.

Oak furniture is best chosen in natural color. The color of rubber wood is not pure, and there will be miscellaneous spots, black spots and other phenomena. If you encounter the kind of dark color (such as dark red, dark black, etc.) and marked as "oak furniture", consumers should pay special attention.

Identification of rubberwood from oak.

Because although the difference between rubber wood and oak is only one word, the origin, quality and price are far apart. However, some merchants sell rubberwood as oak, which is even more deceptive to consumers.

Let's talk about the origin first: rubber wood is a plant that produces rubber milk, which grows in the subtropics, such as Southeast Asia, so some people call rubber wood Thai oak and Southeast Asian oak. Oak is widely distributed in the vast area of the northern hemisphere, the real best quality oak should be the origin of the United States, the market oak is roughly divided into two categories: red oak and white oak, American oak and Pennsylvania red oak (red oak) as the respect, its texture is uniform, the pattern is beautiful, scratch and rub resistant, is the best in oak, worth a lot of money.

Let's talk about the value: rubber wood is not a precious and scarce wood, so its market price is not expensive, its wood growth cycle is short, the survival rate of wood is high, it can be made in ten years, and there are many sources of wood raw materials, and the price is more suitable for the general people to consume.

Oak is hard and beautifully patterned, and our common wine barrels are usually made of white oak. Therefore, oak furniture belongs to high-end furniture, and the price of oak wood is 3-4 times the price of rubberwood. And due to the restrictions on wood exports in the United States, only a very small number of furniture and flooring manufacturing enterprises in China can have American oak raw materials in large quantities.

Material difference: oak has a high grade, solid texture, firm structure of finished products, long service life, suitable for making European furniture, Chinese classical furniture, showing a sense of thickness, and has the dignified and calm mahogany furniture. Rubberwood is a tropical tree species, and its hardness, material, texture, and performance are relatively inferior to oak.

Due to its high sugar content, rubberwood furniture is easy to change color on the wood, and is easy to be corroded and moth-eaten if it has not been professionally dried and other treatments.