How To Distinguish Walnut Furniture

Black walnut in the United States has been known as the "king of the broad-leaved forest," because this wood is relatively stable, through wet summer and dry winter will not have shrinkage or deformation, texture is very hard, can stay dry for a long time.Today's black walnut is endangered species, the price has been rising year by year, the price per cubic meter of raw materials has reached tens of thousands.The price of raw material is high, the furniture price after its processing is high also in reason.

The cut surface of black walnut wood is smooth, luster is downy, show light dark brown take purple, cut surface is beautiful big parabolic pattern.Black walnut sapwood is milky white, heartwood from light brown to dark chocolate, with occasional purple and darker stripes.Sapwood can be darker after steam treatment, while grey is more noble.When making furniture very easy agglutinate and process by the love of numerous production manufacturer and consumption, the price also is rising tide ship is tall, raw material price is in 10 thousand to 20 thousand per cubic metre to differ, a lot of illegal businessman saw this opportunity namely, attempt USES bad product to shoddy, profit from it.

The main purpose

Black walnut resistant to impact and friction, resistant to decay, easy to dry, less deformation;Easy to construct, easy to glue.The shrinkage rate is very small, so that it can be applied to the variable climate environment, without cracking and other problems.Other lumber all cannot compare black walnut can absorb oily qualitative coating.These are unique, let black walnut value stay high, according to understanding, black walnut market price is 20,000 yuan/cubic meter left and right sides, so, the furniture of pure real wood that USES black walnut to do also compares other general furniture naturally expensive a lot of.Black walnut wood is used for flat veneer, rotary veneer, furniture, panels, cabinets, musical instrument boards, gun butts, etc.

Fake black walnut

Generally speaking, what commonly used to imitate black walnut on market still has ash, rowan wood.Ash texture clear and beautiful, with a nice luster, can imitate precious tree species.And the colour grain of black walnut is not even chocolate color, but with a kind of natural image presents.It is worth mentioning that although the price of ash ash is lower, but both belong to the same family, similar performance, so it is not surprising that both are used to imitate black walnut.The pattern shape of rowan wood is similar to that of black walnut, but the tree ring line of black walnut is accompanied by dense brown holes, while the tree ring line of rowan wood does not have dense brown holes.In addition, if proceed from woodiness Angle, catalpa woodiness is a bit soft at black walnut, this also is the distinction with two bigger.

In order to avoid being cheated, how should we distinguish black walnut?

1, it is to judge through paint above all, when using paint to judge true and false black walnut, we have to understand a few knowledge about paint, paint is commonly divided into open paint and seal paint.Open type paint is actually in the wood after use or can maintain the original texture and color, look closer to the material of original wood.And close lacquer is opposite open lacquer character.Can be to see the substrate, can also be all covered.When stroking only the touch of paint, and not the feeling of wood.

In general, the texture of black walnut is more delicate, and ash is more wild.So, what does the grain of black walnut have specifically?Don't worry, small make up has sorted out the six lines of black walnut, for your reference.Some shanzhai black mahogany will not have these six lines.Carved in black and gray stripes or stripe patterns, and with thousands of variations.The golden silk glistened in the sun and was a delight to the eye.So it's also a good way to identify.

3, the next stone to see the texture of the identification, spades hair edge for milky white, heartwood for light brown to dark chocolate, the transition trace is not obvious, the contrast is very strong, and there is a sense of jumping.The chord cutting surface has a nice big parabola pattern, and there are curves that other trees don't have.

4, finally see wood wax oil, the use of wood wax oil black walnut, waterborne paint are open paint, also often used in black walnut.The surface of seal lacquer wood is covered entirely, the paint feels when touching only, the simple sense that lacks lumber itself, everybody must notice when buying, close model paint wants careful differentiate especially.