Oak Wood, Toothed oak Wood, or rubber wood, did you buy the wrong furniture？

Recently asked how to identify  buyers suddenly more up, do you know how to identify these several solid wood furniture? This article gives some explanations and comparisons on this issue to help you identify real Oak wood furniture!

Nowadays, more and more good wood is used to make furniture, but ordinary consumers' understanding of wood is usually more limited, coupled with the non-standard name of wood, leading some businesses to be vague about the wood used in their furniture, making people produce the illusion of cheap and good quality. In fact, oak (North American oak), oak (Chinese/Russian oak), rubber wood is widely used in the furniture industry, the industry is very clear about their differences, but most ordinary consumers are not clear, they are used to only from the name of the wood, to judge the quality and value of the furniture, it is easy to be low-price promotion, inventory clearance temptation impulse purchase, I thought I got some really good furniture at a good price. Under normal circumstances, this kind of beautiful thing will not turn to you, we have to understand "what price, what goods " truth!

1. The Oak wood furniture

First talk about the real oak, in the raw material market it is divided into domestic and imported two categories, North American imports of red oak, white oak, high-quality oak one tens of thousands of dollars. (Processed square materials, 1 inch thick between six or seven thousand yuan per square, 2 inches thick will be more than 9000 yuan/cubic meter, recently heard that the price has risen.) Oak distribution is very wide, China's north to Jilin, Liaoning, south to Hainan, Yunnan have grown, but the high availability of high-quality materials less, excellent oak still need to be imported from abroad. At present, the price of domestic oak sold on the market is much lower than that of imports. Generally, Hainan and Yunnan oak are the main oak, Yunnan oak is slightly better than Hainan oak, Yunnan oak square material used to be 6000 ~ 10000 yuan/cubic meter. Oak also European white oak, Indonesian oak, classical oak, Indonesian rain oak, royal oak, red oak and so on, the origin is widely distributed.

2.How to identify oak wood (Oak wood furniture), Toothed oak wood , rubber wood?

1) Oak wood (Oak wood furniture)

The oak wood: hardwood, the wood period is more than 50 years to hundreds of years, oak belongs to Quercus (Quercus), the heart of the tree is yellowish-brown to reddish-brown, the growth ring is obvious, slightly wavy, mostly in the form of straight grain more, medium to rough texture. Distinct mountain pattern, heavy and hard. Oak on the market is roughly divided into two categories: red oak and white oak, but red oak is not red, white oak is not white, and the color distinction is not very obvious. At present, among the furniture materials, more red oak is used, white oak because the price is more expensive, and pure solid wood furniture with white oak as the main material is rarely seen in the market.

2) Toothed  oak

Toothed  oak (Chinese/Russian oak) : hardwood, the wood period of more than 50 years to hundreds of years, also belongs to the oak genus (Quercus). The wood is light yellow, the grain is straight, the string surface has a silver pattern, the wood is fine and hard, and the dry shrinkage is small. Tussah has hard texture, heavy ratio, high strength, relatively dense structure, strong moisture and corrosion resistance, wear resistance, good coloring performance, difficult processing, smooth processing section, and is also a high-quality material for making furniture. Oak and white oak are the same family of wood, so in China's wood products, oak products occupy a considerable proportion.

3) Rubber wood

Rubber wood: hardwood, the wood period is 15-25 years, do not let the business to rubber wood fake oak! At present, the phenomenon of rubber wood counterfeit oak is widespread in the market, rubber wood is a euphorbia wood, which is the aging material of rubber trees that produce rubber, and its own material is poor, far from oak and oak, but after a certain chemical process, the wood is hardened. Rubber wood itself is easy to bend and deform, wood processing is easy, mainly made of finger plate, manufacturing some furniture with low durability requirements

3. The difference between oak （Oak wood furniture）and rubber wood（Rubber Wood furniture）

The difference between oak and rubber wood: Although oak and rubber wood are only a word difference, but many people are not clear about them. This is actually very simple.

Oak (Oak wood furniture)is relatively hard in texture, feel very heavy, and rubber wood is relatively soft in texture, feel relatively light, so in the use of these two kinds of wood to make furniture rubber wood must knuckle, and oak is not needed.

4.The difference between oak and Toothed oak wood(Oak wood furniture):

The difference between oak and Toothed oak wood:Oak and tussah are of the same genus of wood, the heart of white oak is light brown to dark brown, mostly in the form of straight grain, medium to rough texture; Oak wood is light yellow, the grain is straight, the string surface has a silver pattern, the wood is fine and hard. Wood grain contrast: All are straight grain, oak grain is thicker, oak grain is finer, so oak grain is more rough and clear than oak grain. Oak and oak both have mountain patterns, but oak is larger than oak. Taking a 12*90 standard floor as an example, the oak pattern is very large, a standard floor can only accommodate half a pattern, while the oak pattern is similar to oak, but it is small, and a complete pattern can be seen on a marker board, sometimes it can accommodate two mountain patterns.  Toothed oak's knot and black spots more, good oak is not, to oak floor installation of a room for example, the room is full of wood knot and black spots.

According to our experience in the production of furniture for many years, the stability of North American red oak is better than that of white oak, the red color, there are few similar cheap wood can be impersonated, so it is safer to buy red oak. A few years ago, when the warm color system was popular, it was used to customize the solid wood of the whole house, and it was the best choice of materials for the wine cellar. There are still some options. Just because of the change in the overall aesthetic trend, the current popular light color system, and the white oak light price is higher, so it is impersonated more.

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