Is mahogany furniture really a veneer? Be careful!

Because consumers who buy fake leather furniture and mahogany furniture, they are not a minority.

Even some profiteers in the Vietnamese rosewood market have learned to use the skinning technology on the mahogany slabs, so many Chinese who buy raw materials are deceived.

Red rosewood skinned slab on the Vietnamese market (formerly surrounded by leather)

The surface and the bottom are covered by a thin piece of real board carefully attached to the front and rear, but the inside is not the mahogany but the wood or other wood, and some even the cement board. . .

These sellers also make some camouflage on these pieces of wood, and most of them take the buyer to the dark warehouse for inspection, and at the same time, the method of inspection is very rushed in various ways, so that the buyer can not seriously check.

As for the veneer of mahogany raw materials, as long as you are wary, you will always see some clues when you look carefully, and the log market can also be used to test the color of the axe. If you check it, you will not be caught. Therefore, being deceived is often because it falls into the "bureau" of the profiteers, not because of technical problems in inspection.

Here, we focus on furniture veneers. Furniture veneer is a kind of wood decoration technology that emerged in modern times. It is aimed at the chaos of many leather furniture on the market, summing up several ways to identify the method of veneer furniture.

Non-confused package and skin

In the "General Technical Conditions for Mahogany Furniture", there is such a term explanation. “Redwood-wrapped furniture: furniture made of high-quality natural solid wood sawn timber and covered with dark precious hardwood veneer (thickness not less than 6mm).” It is particularly noteworthy that an annotation has been added later. . “Note: The hardwood coating process originated from the Qing Dynasty, which is different from today's meager wood cladding (decorative) surface technology.”

The General Technical Conditions for Mahogany Furniture is the national standard for the mahogany industry. So, what information does this definition of “redwood-covered furniture” provide us?

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the red sandalwood inlaid with copper

From the content explanation, it can be concluded that "redwood-covered furniture" is what we often call "package" furniture, but they are two different methods of salutation. In the latter note, the “slim wood cover (decorative) surface process” refers to the veneer furniture that is often confused with the inlaid furniture. The two are two concepts that cannot be equated.

Then, the dividing point between the inlaid furniture and the veneer furniture can also be found in the above explanation. The exterior is covered with dark precious hardwood veneer, the thickness of which is not less than 6mm. If this condition is met, it is a box-inlaid furniture, not a veneer furniture.

At the same time, one thing that cannot be ignored is that it is a legitimate business practice only when the merchant indicates "XXX Covered Furniture" on the quality credit card. If the packaged furniture is sold as "all XXX furniture" or "XXX furniture", it constitutes commercial fraud and bears legal responsibility.

So what is leather furniture?

The method of making the leather furniture is to soak the softer and more beautiful wood with hot water, and then use a large woodworking machine to cut or slice it into a thin wooden board with a thickness of about 1 mm, so-called “leather”, and then press The wood grain strikes into various patterns and is attached to the surface of the furniture, commonly known as "sticking skin."

Early Qing Dynasty sandalwood screened base

In contrast, it can be seen that there are many differences between the inlaid furniture and the leather furniture. The process of inlaying has been in existence since the Qing Dynasty, and its birth has certain inevitability, and there are many advantages.

First of all, the inlaid furniture can save a lot of precious wood, especially in the late Qing Dynasty where the national power is declining. The import of precious wood has been incapable. The coating of precious wood on the outside of ordinary wood is a "face" for the maintenance of the ruler. A proven method. There are a lot of packaged furniture in the handed down furniture in the late Qing Dynasty. The reason is here.

Secondly, the packaged furniture is solid and stable. Precious hardwood is very susceptible to cracking and deformation under dry climatic conditions in the north. Tests have shown that the soft nanmu and pine are used as the fetal bones, and the outer surface is covered with precious hard wood. As long as the environment is not excessively moist, the finished furniture will be very durable.

Again, portable. As we all know, hardwood is dense and heavy, which is not conducive to handling. It is made of soft wood such as nanmu and eucalyptus, and it is covered with precious wood such as red sandalwood and huanghuali. It is light and easy to carry, and it is also luxurious. According to the Qing dynasty archives, this method is commonly used in transportation equipment such as the royal car and the car.

The technique of inlaying is especially common in the production of furniture in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. It can be seen from the records of the Qing Dynasty engineering literature and the large number of applications in the court. The setting is not a poor fake technique, but a furniture art development. The inevitable phenomenon of the Qing Dynasty.

First, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the number of high-quality mahogany materials in the country dropped sharply, and even the furniture made of huanghuali in the middle of the Qing Dynasty became extremely rare.

Second, the national strength is declining, and it is unable to import a large number of precious wood such as red sandalwood. In this case, the inlay is undoubtedly an effective way to save wood.

Third, the cultural exchanges between China and the West have been influenced by the decorative traditions of the ancient Western architecture "Tire-tire stone" and the decorative techniques of the cladding furniture. The decoration style and furniture of the Qing court have changed a lot.

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The bonding material used in the Qing Dynasty's bezel technology is “Dayu” (fish gizzard or pigtail glue). From the hand-inlaid furniture, many of them are still very solid and fine, and some interfaces are as thin as they are, which is hard to detect. . In addition, there are more decorative features that can not be ignored. Some of the Qing Dynasty furniture's "corner stickers", "riding stitches", "corner stickers", hanging paint and copper-clad foot crafts are all part of the inlay process.

The difference between the packaged furniture and the modern “flap furniture” can be summarized as follows:

First, the package is a kind of furniture art technique that began in the Qing Dynasty. It is a beautiful art. "Face" is a kind of fake means of modern furniture. It is often packaged as "all XXX furniture" for sale, which is an illegal act in the business context. The nature of the two is completely different, so it cannot be compared.

Second, the traditional packaged furniture is glued with surimi, while the leather furniture often uses industrial glue.

Third, the condition of the inlaid furniture is that the precious wood covered is not less than 6mm. If it is less than 6mm, there is suspicion of leather furniture.

Five strokes identify leather furniture

In the first two years, a news report reported that a surnamed Chen had purchased a set of rosewood furniture at a high price. After using it for 6 months, he found a crack on the cabinet door and the edge of the crack was lifted. It is known that this set of furniture is only a layer of rosewood material with a thickness of about 2 mm on a single part and a skin. After Chen surnamed consumers, the manufacturer was brought to court in the absence of a return.

Such a phenomenon is not a case in the mixed-fashioned furniture market. If the Chen surnamed consumer has certain knowledge of identifying the leather furniture, a similar situation is likely to be avoided.

To identify the skinned furniture, the most important thing is to understand the characteristics of the leather furniture. Here are five ways to identify the method of skinning furniture for consumers to learn from.

The first trick: look at the color and texture

The texture and color of the front and back of the normal mahogany furniture components should be slightly different. As we all know, since the same thick plank needs to be cut according to the same specification thickness or different thickness, the front and back texture of each panel will be different, and the effect of the string cutting and the diameter cutting will be different, little or no. The texture and color of the front and back sides may be exactly the same. If the furniture has a front and back pattern and the color is exactly the same, you need to carefully check it out.

Some large furniture is the main object of skinning. Under normal circumstances, the thickness of the big side of a bed or a long case should be more than 5cm. Before processing into a finished product, there will be a certain amount of machining allowance, so the texture and color of the front and back sides should be different. But if the difference is too large, and even the basic features are unrelated, it is also doubtful. When purchasing furniture, you should pay attention to the following parts: the thin parts of the large cabinet side panels, face panels, fascia boards, drawer boards, etc.

The second measure: smell

For the skin of furniture, it is necessary to use glue. As mentioned above, the traditional packaged furniture uses a large raft. The reason why the big cockroach is used is because the furniture is easy to foam and wrinkle when it is set, and it is easy to discharge the air with the big shovel. It is very flat with a soldering iron, and many chemical glues can't do this.

The way to identify the big cockroach is to rub the surface of the furniture with your hands. After the heat, it smells sour. If you are not using a chemical glue, you can smell the smell of chemicals in this way. For lacquered furniture, this method is obviously no longer effective, but it can be tested on the opposite or inside of the furniture, as most of the furniture in these places is unpainted.

The third measure: observe the component transfer joint and the 榫卯 interface

Due to the limitations of the skinning process, it is impossible to carry out the skin treatment in the furniture. Such as the Ming-style curved arhat bed, the connection between the three-sided quilt and the bed can be dismantled. If the color of the wood inside and outside the joint is inconsistent, it must be a leather furniture. In addition, at the turning point of the furniture part, the seam can also be observed with the naked eye. If the pattern is naturally flowing, and there is no sudden disconnection, it is made for one wood. If the pattern is broken, it is either wood splicing or a skinning process.

Worn skin

The fourth trick: listening to the sound

The mahogany veneer furniture is generally not expensive wood, and its wood density is lower than that of the skin part. Due to the different density, the sound of the skin furniture and the normal furniture are different when tapping. Normal mahogany furniture will give a crisp echo when it is struck, like a bell that doesn't drag the water, especially the face board, and the leather furniture is dull and sloppy. However, listening to the sound of distinguishing the skin furniture requires a long-term experience, and it is necessary to practice repeatedly and practice more.

The fifth measure: 掂 feel

For small and medium-sized furniture, portable furniture can sense the weight of furniture. Too light or too heavy is doubtful. There have been cases where some counterfeiters placed iron and other heavy objects in the four legs of the bed to increase the overall weight of the furniture. In this case, you can carry a piece of magnet with you, and test it in the thick part of the material. Be careful when you absorb the force.

For large furniture, the hand can sense the change in the surface temperature of the furniture, which is also a way to identify the density of the wood. Wood with a higher density feels cooler at the moment of touch, while wood with a lower density feels at a higher temperature.

In addition to the above five strokes, it is also necessary to understand that the leather furniture can not be waxed, because the hot wax will cause the "leather" to foam. Therefore, the leather furniture can only be waxed or wiped with a thin layer of walnut oil, or directly painted. In the example cited above, the consumer of Chen surnamed was discovered by the opportunity of furniture cracking. The cracking of furniture is very common in the northern regions, and the leather furniture is more likely to expose the original shape in the case of cracking.

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