As we all know, red sandalwood, huanghuali, and rosewood are high-grade mahogany. There are many woods with “thaiâ€, “huali†and “sour branches†on the market. I think that adding these words can make them too expensive. For example, is the African rosewood a redwood? Furniture fans will answer your questions.
Is the African rosewood a redwood?
Because of the elegant and beautiful shape of mahogany furniture, it combines practicality, art and collection into one, which is deeply loved by consumers. The high price makes many people who like mahogany furniture discouraged. Some unscrupulous merchants have grasped this psychology to Africa. The sour branches come to fake mahogany furniture, satisfying consumers' desire to buy mahogany furniture at a very low price. Consumers who don't understand the truth often believe that the African rosewood is used as mahogany.
In fact, African rosewood is just an ordinary African miscellaneous wood. It is not within the five genera and eight types of thirty-three tree species specified by the national standard of redwood. African rosewood is not redwood . The furniture made by African rosewood cannot be called mahogany. Furniture. When consumers purchase African rosewood furniture, they must let the manufacturer issue a timber identification certificate, and ask which tree species it is, and clearly indicate in the contract that the material used is a scientific name, not a common name. Those can defend their rights accordingly.
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What kind of wood is the African rosewood?
The scientific name of the African rosewood is called Guyi Sumu , also known as Burke Sumu. It is produced in Africa and belongs to the family of Sumu. It has obvious heartwood, reddish purple or reddish brown, with deep purple stripes; the sapwood is white or light yellowish brown. The tube hole is visible, mainly as the main, and has a short diameter column of the tube hole; the tube hole is scattered, the local near oblique column; there are purple or pink-brown deposits. Thin wall tissue fistula type can be seen, the wheel boundary is not visible (obviously under the microscope); the fistula type is mainly wing-shaped (having thick, long and short, wing ends with sharp or blunt, and unilateral or double Side different types), less winged. The rays are visible, large and uneven, and the larger one is slightly wider than the round-shaped thin-walled tissue; the tangential surface is spotted.
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African rosewood heartwood has beautiful appearance, anti-corrosion and anti-mite (white enamel is not eroded); although hard (dry weight 800-900kg/m3) and processing is not difficult; dry slowly, but dry and stable; Light, sanding, paint and adhesive properties are good. Widely used in high-grade furniture, wooden frames, walls, floors, pavilions, musical instruments, rotary cuts, handles, brush backs; now more than cut into decorative veneers. In some aspects, it can be a substitute for a rosewood.
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