What is Ash Wood?
Ash Wood is a kind of dicotyledonous plant, and its appearance is similar to that of European locust. It grows in North America and parts of Europe, and is also produced in China. Ash Wood is easy to be processed and polished by cutting tools. The wood hardness is on the high side, the core material is stable, and the compressive strength, static bending strength and tensile strength along the grain are medium. Ash Wood is mainly used to make American-style solid wood furniture, bark and fruit are used for medicine, and black brown and blue dyes can also be extracted.
What does Ash Wood look like?
Ash wood has beautiful yellow, deep purple and chestnut autumn colors. The composite leaf is 8-15 inches long with 5-9 dark green leaflets. Green to purple flowers are produced. These flowers are not ornamental. They usually bloom in April and produce slender samaras with a length of 1-2 inches. Each has a wing, similar to a canoe paddle. It grows into an oval or pyramid shape in the early stage, and gradually becomes round with age.
What is the texture of Ash Wood?
Straight grain and wave grain are two basic textures of ash wood. The sapwood is light to nearly white, and the heartwood changes from light gray or light brown to light yellow striped brown. Wood is usually straight grain, with rough and uniform texture. The degree and availability of light-colored sapwood and other properties will vary according to the planting area. The following picture shows the pith ray of ash wood cross section under a magnifying glass. (Pulp ray: a group of ray parenchyma cells arranged radially from the pith center to the bark on the cross section of wood. The ray primitive cells from the cambium are a kind of storage tissue in the tree body. The wood ray is the tissue that plays the role of lateral nutrient transport in the wood, which exists in the secondary xylem of the plant and is composed of ray parenchyma cells.)
What is the advantage of Ash Wood?
1. Long service life
Because of its excellent anti-corrosion performance, the ash wood furniture has a long service life. Even if it is used in the wet space of the bathroom, the life of the ash wood furniture is much longer than that of the ordinary furniture.
2. High strength
The wood texture of ash wood furniture is rough and uniform, and its performance in compression resistance is excellent. Therefore, ash wood is also the preferred material for many high-end sofas.
3. Excellent processing performance
White wax wood furniture has excellent nail holding performance. Whether it is fixed with screws or iron nails, it is very stable. At the same time, the adhesion performance of the ash wood furniture is also quite excellent. After the surface is dyed and polished, it has excellent decorative effect.
What is the disadvantage of Ash Wood?
1. Long drying process
If the white wax furniture is not completely dried during the production process, the wood is very easy to deform or crack, which seriously affects the appearance and service life of the furniture.
2. Prices are quite expensive
Ash wood is mainly produced in North America and Russia. The raw materials are mainly imported and relatively scarce. Therefore, the price of ash wood furniture in the market is usually higher than the price.
How to maintain Ash Wood furniture?
1. Avoid sunlight
The drying performance of the ash wood furniture is poor, so it is also necessary to avoid sunlight when it is not used at ordinary times. At the same time, it is necessary to wipe the ash wood furniture after wetting the clean cloth, and at the same time, it is necessary to apply maintenance oil to the ash wood furniture regularly.
2. Dust removal
When dedusting the ash wood furniture, it is best to use the cotton cloth that is soaked and then dried. The cotton cloth can reduce the friction on the furniture and avoid scratching the furniture. In order to avoid moisture residue on the furniture, it is best to wipe it again with dry cotton cloth.
3. Waxing
We need to wax the ash wood furniture regularly. Waxing can not only make the furniture beautiful and bright, but also have certain dust removal effect., However, do not wax the concealed position on the back or bottom of the furniture to keep the moisture content of the back wood.
