Mahogany furniture is getting more expensive. Having a set of mahogany furniture is a symbol of the identity of a successful person. Many people actually don't understand wood completely. They want to collect and are afraid of buying fake goods. They don't understand how much a set of mahogany furniture is worth.

I have been mixing in the wood industry for a while and have a little common sense about wood. If you ask me: How to judge the value of mahogany furniture? I can only say: Sorry, I really don't know.

When it comes to rosewood, you must first start with the national standards. Why does the Chinese government need to develop GB/T 18107-2000 Redwood National Standard? Each kind of wood corresponds to a kind of tree, red rosewood is called red rosewood, white rosewood is called white rosewood, white sandalwood is called white sandalwood, ebony is called ebony, they all have their own Latin The name of the language, the timber industry originally had its own standards, why do you have to create another thing called "Redwood National Standard"?

There is no such standard in any other country in the world. What is even more funny is that there is no word "redwood" in English. Although there is a tree called red oak in North America, although Californians will call the North American giant cedar red tree, they have nothing to do with Chinese redwood.

Redwood is a concept from the Ming and Qing cultures of China. People of that era appreciate hard and wearable furniture. Exquisitely carved decoration is only valuable for hard and wear-resistant furniture. If it is a pine pine chair, the carving is exquisite and can only be preserved for a few years. Moreover, the wood is loose and it is not easy to engrave and polish the fine effect. What the nobles and nobles are pursuing is not practical furniture, but crafts furniture that can show their strength. Just as women in the world buy backpacks and don't like practical and strong electric canvas bags, they only buy flashy LV and Chanel.

As a result, these dense hard wear-resistant woods are the best material for exquisitely carved furniture. After using this kind of wood for a period of time, most of the colors are brown, red, brown, black, and reddish brown, so it is called mahogany.

Unfortunately, this type of wood is rare in China and its main producing area is in Southeast Asia. Since Zheng He’s voyages to the Western Sea, he has continuously imported all kinds of wood from Nanyang. With ancient transportation technology, the cost of transporting a piece of wood from Southeast Asia to China is very expensive, and domestic wood is in short supply, so mahogany furniture is not very popular.

Another reason why mahogany furniture is expensive is the difficulty of processing. Ninety percent of the wood furniture's defects stem from drying technology. The woody dense wood has poor water permeability, the outer layer first shrinks and shrinks, while the inner layer is difficult to dry, and there is a large humidity gradient and internal stress, which is easy to deform and crack.

For example, the American red oak, which is now widely used in high-grade flooring, was a completely unusable wood before the invention of modern drying technology, because it cracked itself under natural air drying conditions. However, with a drying kiln that can precisely control temperature, humidity and water content, it can be dried in two months. If you use a higher-end RF vacuum drying kiln, it only takes one week to dry without cracking.

In ancient China, there was no such cutting-edge drying technique. What the craftsmen can do is to alternately throw the wood into the water and then take it out to dry it. Repeat it every few days for months or even years before the big wood can be dried without cracking. Soaking water is to supplement the water content of the outer layer, avoiding the internal and external humidity difference is too large and cracking. Imagine how high the cost of drying hardwood is.

Before the wood is made into furniture, it must be dried to the appropriate EMC value (equilibrium moisture content) according to the local average humidity. This value means that when the water content of the wood is within this range, it is not easy to dehydrate and shrink. It is also not easy to absorb moisture and expand, and water absorption and dehydration are in equilibrium.

Furniture in different places should be different, wet and warm, high EMC, low in cold and dry areas. For example, Beijing's EMC is 11.4%, Urumqi is 12.1%, Yinchuan is 11.8%, Wuhan is 15.4%, Hangzhou is 16.5%, Lanzhou is 11.3%, Wenzhou is 17.3%, Hohhot is 11.2%, Fuzhou is 15.6%, Lhasa is 8.6%, Shanghai is 16.0%, Haikou 17.3%.

With the technique of the carpenter of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there is obviously no way to do such precise control, so the mahogany furniture of that year will inevitably have many cracks. Interestingly, the crack itself has become a kind of thing to enjoy, and it has become a feature of mahogany furniture - this is actually a reason for some people to play cracks on ancient porcelain.

With the technology of the ancient Chinese, there is no way to distinguish the wood finely. In the end, what kind of wood can be called mahogany has always been blurred.

Once the mahogany begins to prosper, it is a huge market. Through various public relations means, mahogany furniture employs a variety of writers and continues to build momentum on mahogany furniture. The price of redwood began to soar. Many of the woods that are called mahogany by the Chinese, many of which are untouched in the country of origin, are not willing to use these hard and heavy things. (In fact, American ginseng is also the same. It was originally a kind of wild vegetable that the Indians talked about and was used as a treasure by the Chinese.) In Laos or Burma, spend thousands of dollars to buy a tree, transport it to China, make mahogany furniture, and change it. It is worth hundreds of thousands of yuan.

There was no standard in the past that what kind of wood is mahogany, and what kind of wood is not mahogany. With the development of wood treatment technology, many woods that have never been used for furniture have made better effects than ancient mahogany furniture. After processing some cheap wood, it looks almost indistinguishable from the Ming and Qing dynasty mahogany. The texture is better.

As a result, the people who collected the mahogany furniture were angry and felt cheated. Some mahogany businesses that have already made a fortune are also angry, and think that "unscrupulous businessmen" have disrupted the market. The whole country is full of entangled mahogany lawsuits.

In this case, even the Chinese government can't sit still. According to the drafters of the national standard of mahogany, in general, such national standards are proposed below, requiring the state to establish standards, and the mahogany standard is proposed by the government, requiring a group of timber experts to produce a national standard within one year.

If I receive such a task, I will feel ridiculous. Redwood is a very vague collection concept. How can it be precisely defined? If you are a hobbyist like me, and you like to eat all over the place, you will find how difficult it is to give a standard. What criteria do you use to distinguish between big cockroaches and dumplings? According to the shape or according to the material? Wenzhou’s elders, auspicious 荠 荠 馄饨 馄饨, Shaxian snacks, and Sichuan’s spicy slap, although they are called 馄饨, how do you set a national standard? Do you want to specify the shape of the skull? size? Stuffing? seasoning? Topology? This is really too difficult.

From a philosophical point of view, it is back to the classic nomenclature and realism arguments - there is no such thing as the existence of "redwood", only these woods are often called mahogany, nothing more.

The drafters of the Redwood National Standard are also facing such problems. They did this: collecting a large amount of wood data from the furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties called mahogany furniture (rather than the mahogany furniture produced by contemporary furniture factories), making a statistic to see which of the most common woods.

In the end, they divided the most common wood into 5 categories and 8 categories, listing 33 types. Some other trees, although wood may be better than these 33 species, but as long as they do not belong to these 33 species, it is not considered mahogany. The reason why they are limited to 5 categories and 8 categories is for the convenience of identification, because the wood is determined according to the wooden anatomical structure, generally only accurate to the genus or class, it is not easy to be accurate to the species, if the species is the identification standard, Brought a lot of misjudgments and disputes.

If you want to be precise, you can't do it. You can cut it off from the furniture and use it for DNA identification - but how many people will be willing to do DNA identification in order to buy a chair? (As for whether the wood is an ordinary Vietnamese red rosewood or a more expensive Laos red rosewood, even DNA identification cannot be distinguished. - The existing science and technology cannot identify where the tree is growing. Just as there is no way to distinguish between the hairy crabs of Yangcheng Lake and the hairy crabs of Taihu Lake, because they are all the same species of Chinese mitten crabs.)

The National Standard for Redwood says: “Based on simple and practical macro features (such as density, structure, color and texture), it is supplemented by the necessary wood anatomical features to determine its genus.” So this mahogany national standard is not a science. The technical test standard is an identification standard. Just as the family tree is found in the Ming and Qing dynasties, your surname is rooted in red.

More precisely, this standard can be renamed as “the routine simple identification standard for those woods known as mahogany.” If a person with high-tech means uses similar wood to process similar structures and textures, he deceives the appraisers, even if The DNA test proved to be artificial mahogany, and it is also legal, because the national standard is so identified.

With the national standard, is there a clear standard for mahogany? of course not. These 33 trees are just an example. There are more than 33 trees in these five genera. Other trees that have been identified as belonging to these five genera will also be identified as mahogany.

However, if the tree species is in line, can it be called mahogany? Nor is it. According to industry regulations, the same tree, light-colored sapwood can not be called mahogany, only dark heartwood can be called mahogany. Therefore, even if it is qualified according to the national standard, it is not recognized in the industry.

Does everyone recognize national standards? it's not true. In addition to the differences of opinion among experts, there are differences in opinions of ordinary people. Cantonese, Zhejiang, and Beijingers have different views on mahogany. This place is considered to be mahogany, and it is not recognized in another place. Therefore, the mahogany furniture approved by the Cantonese may be regarded as a fake mahogany by the Beijingers.

As a result, as a supplement, a national standard for "Dark and expensive hardwood furniture" was published, listing one hundred and one dark and precious hardwood furniture species, including all the tree species that have been included in the "Redwood" national standard, and It is not used in the tree species of "Redwood National Standard", that is, the redwood species as the rare and rare tree species in the dark and precious hardwood group, and also meets the standard of hardwood, and the "dark and expensive hardwood furniture" does not necessarily conform to "Redwood". National standard.

Therefore, some of the things you see are treated as mahogany furniture, which may be in accordance with the standard of dark and expensive hardwood furniture, but not mahogany furniture. Although some materials may not be bad. Of course, there are some more rare trees, which are too rare to be used for furniture and are not listed at all.

It may be worthwhile to understand these national standards: the national standard of mahogany is equivalent to the list of 985 colleges and universities, and the standard of dark and expensive hardwood furniture is equivalent to the list of 211 colleges and universities.

in conclusion:

Redwood is a general term for a class of dark hard wood. It is a cultural concept derived from the collective concept of commonly used materials for furniture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Prices have skyrocketed due to hype by merchants and collectors. In terms of functionality, mahogany furniture is not practical and maintenance is not easy.

Imitation of mahogany is not complicated. Those sapwoods add some dye, and then compacted, it looks very close to the heartwood. Some cheap wood can also be made very hard by chemical treatment and close to mahogany. Of course, I am not a rosewood admirer. When I need better furniture materials, I will choose cheap compressed bamboo, which is to break the bamboo, add high temperature to dry, and then press it with hydraulic press. The density, hardness and strength are better than mahogany. More, the texture is also good-looking, you can make a flat large piece of material, and will not dehydrate and crack.

The price of mahogany furniture soared, reminding me of Clivia many years ago. Clivia is a kind of weed that can neither fill the stomach nor make medicine. The ornamental value is also very common. Even the stone flower is better than the gentleman. At the beginning of 1985, Changchun, a king of flowers, sold a pot of Clivia to Harbin customers at a price of 140,000 yuan. At that time, 10,000 yuan could buy a small house in the provincial capital, that is to say, the price of this pot of Clivia was equivalent to 14 apartments. At that time, 50,000 people in Changchun City raised Clivia, and they all hoped to get rich overnight.

Thirty years have passed, and Clivia is rarely seen along the street, but some people are still speculating. Some people have marked a pot of Clivia for 100 million or 60 million. It is said that the 100 million-year-old Clivia has finally sold for one million yuan. I think, if everyone is my kind, the most expensive Clivia can probably sell for 40 yuan a pot.

How much is mahogany furniture worth? If you let me choose, I will obviously choose a cheap cloth sofa for a thousand dollars, instead of choosing to sit on a mahogany hard bench of 100,000 yuan. I saw the kind of thing called "redwood sofa" in the furniture store. It was a bare bench that tormented the butt. There was no soft bag at all.

Today's mahogany furniture is expensive and built on a cultural belief. People believe that redwood is precious, just as the value of paintings and calligraphy banners is believed. Regrettably, the preciousness of mahogany is an outdated concept in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is ridiculous to treat it as a baby today.

When you find that mahogany furniture is just a joke like a high-priced Clivia, will you feel that you were stupid at first? People who sell mahogany furniture will not tell you how expensive the price of mahogany is, just as those who invest in bitcoin will keep telling you: investing in bitcoin shows you have a forward-looking vision.

Of course, those who buy mahogany furniture are wealthy people who want to embody their own tastes and hope that they are seen as literate people rather than upstarts. Therefore, the propaganda of the merchant is the cultural taste of the mahogany furniture.

The material and color of mahogany furniture determines that it will become the bottleneck of indoor matching. When you need other colors, you can't paint a mahogany furniture with a layer of piano paint. In the end, other renovations and furniture were compromised with expensive mahogany furniture, creating a modern apartment with a mix of non-destructive pseudo-ancients, just like wearing a suit with a nice pigtail scorpion. Of course, the writer hired by the merchant will tell you that the pigtail scorpion is a cultural taste.

Wood Business Card Holder

Wood Business Card Holder,Diy Wooden Card Holder,Wooden Business Card Box,Wooden Business Card Stand

CSL WOOD ART FACTORY , https://www.cslwoodart.com