How to buy solid wood furniture to avoid loopholes

One of the secrets to verify whether solid wood is solid wood furniture is: wood grain and scarring, mainly watching door panels and side panels. Tips: Knots, grains and sections. Scar: Look at the location of the scarred side, and then look for the corresponding pattern on the other side. Wood grain: It looks like a pattern on the outside, so according to the position of the pattern change, look at the corresponding pattern on the back of the cabinet door. If it corresponds well, it is pure solid wood.

Sections: Sections are darker than the panels and can be seen to be made from a single piece of wood. Observation of wood Open furniture cabinet doors and drawers, and observe whether the wood is dry, white, and whether the texture is tight and delicate. If there is furniture made of materials such as particleboard, MDF and one-time forming board, open the cabinet door or drawer and smell it to see if there is a pungent odor.

Look for the main stress-bearing parts of the defective furniture, such as the columns, the load-bearing bars between the columns and the ground near the ground, and there should be no large knots or cracks. The structure is firm, the frame must not be loose, and the tenon and material are not allowed to be broken. The components of the wood-based panels used on the furniture should be edge-sealed, and the installation of various accessories should not include missing pieces, missing nails, or through nails.

Expansion joint is a traditional processing technology of Chinese classical furniture. Anyone who knows solid wood furniture knows that a pure solid wood furniture will inevitably retain the excellent production technology of traditional furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties - tenon and mortise structure, do not use An iron nail is used to assemble the various parts of the furniture through the ingenious combination of tenon and mortise. The expansion joint is to prevent the frame or corner tenon of the furniture from cracking when the wood shrinks or expands under the influence of the external environment, resulting in the loosening of various parts of the furniture and cannot be used normally. It is necessary to treat expansion joints on the surface of solid wood panels. It is called art seam or craft seam. Most of them are at the interface, and it is at the direction of two different wood grains!

What is the appropriate size of the expansion joint? The size of the expansion joint is very important. The width of the expansion joint is determined according to the specific gravity of the wood and the climate characteristics of the area where the furniture is ultimately used. The width of the expansion joint is generally within 0.3-0.5 cm. If it exceeds 0.5 cm, it will be ugly. If the panel is not too wide, it is not necessary to exceed 0.5. If the expansion joint is too wide, the wood is generally not dried well when making furniture.