How to distinguish the types of wood?

1.Cherry

Cherry wood mainly distributed in the United States, in Europe and Japan are also distributed, respectively known as European cherry wood and Japanese cherry wood. These two types of cherry wood are similar in texture and color to American cherries, and are slightly heavier. Cherry heartwood from deep red to light reddish brown, straight texture, thin lines with long and narrow brown pith spots and tiny tree capsules, fine structure. Cherry wood is high-grade wood, and wood grain is straight wood. Cherry wood naturally contains brown tree heart spots and small gum pits, texture exquisite, clear, polishing, painting effect is good, suitable for high-grade household goods.

2.Teak

Teak, is a deciduous or semi deciduous trees, trees 40-50 meters high, dry straight. Teak is a tropical tree species, requiring higher temperature, vertical distribution is more commonly seen in 700-800 meters of sea height below the low hills and plains. Can enter medicine, also be the material that makes high-grade furniture floor, interior and exterior adornment. Teak has strong corrosion resistance to a variety of chemical substances, so it is suitable for the chemical industry to use wood products. Especially used in floor, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, bright as new, beautiful pattern, good stability, small deformation.

3.Maple

Maple has a wide distribution in China, south to yunnan, north to the northeast are produced, such as category, which is the production of color wood of northeast China is one of the most spindles of the textile and leather shoes factory in China last special wood, due to the differences and varieties of origin, of course, some domestic maple wood is qualitative soft, loose structure, the pattern is not obvious, luster, maple no gap with Europe and the United States is produced.

Maple in accordance with the hardness is divided into two categories, one is hard maple, also known as white maple, black maple, the other is soft maple, also known as red maple, silver maple, etc.. Soft maple is about 25% less strong than hard maple. Therefore, hard maple is far better than soft maple in the use of surface and price. The wood is gray-brown to gray-red, the growth rings are not obvious, the tube holes are many and small, evenly distributed. Maple interlace, fine patterns. Easy to process, the section is not smooth, easy to warpage when dry, strong glue. It is mainly used for pasting thin surface.

4.Walnut

Walnut, it is a kind of higher grade in lumber, basically produce from North America and Europe, southeast Asia. Walnut made in China, lighter in color. Black walnut is light black brown belt purple, string section for the beautiful large parabolic pattern. Walnut is used to do furniture not only shape effect is good, and surface burnish saturated colour is rich and full.
Walnut home has burnish, grain until slightly crisscross; Medium dry shrinkage of strength; Paint, adhesive, nail, dyeing and other good properties, slightly wear-resistant, fast drying. The structure of wood itself is more meticulous. It has a delicate touch.
The lumber intensity of walnut is big, namely opposite for lumber is harder, such lumber rises to be very plastic to businessman processing, so a few furniture and a few doors may choose such wood.
Walnut sapwood is milky white and heartwood ranges from light brown to dark chocolate with occasional purple and darker stripes. Can be supplied in sheets with or without steam treated sapwood.

5.Oak

Oak: White oak and red oak collectively referred to as oak, its material is hard heavy, beautiful pattern, is the production of furniture, flooring, indoor wood line and other high-quality materials. Red oak is mainly produced in North America and Europe; White Oak is mainly grown in Asia, Europe and North America. The sapwood and heartwood of oak are slightly distinct. The sapwood is pale yellow and white, and the heartwood is varied in color from yellowish brown to reddish brown. Straight texture, sometimes twill, thick structure, beautiful pattern.Oak is easy to plane and cut for a smooth surface, but wet wood is easy to chafe. Wood grip screw force, but not easy to nail, paint, coloring performance is good.

In terms of wood use, white oak and red oak have a lot in common. Both are excellent materials for furniture, flooring and interior decoration, but white oak also has a unique application value. White oak material is harder than ordinary wood, good toughness, high bending strength, bending wood is not easy to be damaged; Not only good corrosion resistance, and impermeability; White oak barrels are watertight and breathable, making them an excellent material for wine casks.

6.Poplar

Poplar, often like satin luster, so also known as “satin poplar”, is commonly used in north China’s wood, its fine and soft, stable, cheap and easy to get. Because of loose structure and poor material, poplar fiber is mainly used as core board of solid wood composite floor, building template and bottom plate.

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