In the long history of furniture in the mainland, mahogany furniture began in the Ming Dynasty, from the concise and beautiful Ming style to the cumbersome and gorgeous Qing style furniture, as a part of Chinese traditional culture has a long history. In many large-scale auctions, mahogany furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties will appear, and the reason why it can be preserved intact for hundreds of years is not only because of the thousand-year-old mortise and tenon technology, but also closely related to daily maintenance.
If the mahogany furniture is slightly deformed, it can be smoothed with a sander, and then sanded with sandpaper to smooth and wax. If the deformation is more severe, you need to spray the deformed part with water, and then use a heat gun to completely heat the place, press a piece of straight and flat wood on top, fix the two ends with clamps, so that the surface of the two is completely in contact, so that the deformed wood becomes straight with the fixed plate for one to two days. If the deformation is particularly severe, it needs to be repeated 2-3 times. It should be noted that the hardness of the wood used for shaping must be greater than that of furniture wood, and the size of the shaping clip depends on the degree of deformation, and the baking gun also has liquefied gas and baking lamps to choose from, but the speed is different due to the different power sizes. After the deformation is corrected, the subsequent procedure is sanding and waxing.
Although mahogany furniture has undergone dozens of processes, it will still crack due to air drying. The shrinkage gap generally adopts different methods depending on the size of the gap. If the gap is large, you need to choose the same wooden strip according to the material of the furniture, trim the wooden strip to the size of the gap, and then stuff it into the gap. Then sandpaper it repeatedly, and then wax it again until the surface of the furniture is smooth and flat. If the crack is small, you can drip 502 glue into the gap, fill it with some sawdust, and then use sandpaper to smooth the surface of the furniture filled with glue, and then polish and wax. Finally, you can put a humidifier in your room when the weather is drier to prevent dryness from happening.
Of course, many of the tools listed above are not always available at home, and the best thing to do is to ask a professional furniture repairer to repair them. Choose the mahogany furniture that suits you best