In recent years, mahogany furniture collection has become a big hit in the home furnishing market. Although the mahogany furniture industry has a history of hundreds of years, the highly developed mahogany industry has only been a few decades. Many specifications in the mahogany furniture market are not mature, so it is inevitable that some black sheep will appear, using a variety of counterfeiting methods.
1. True and false Monkey King
Among the 29 kinds of mahogany in the national standard, the prices of some similar and different kinds of mahogany vary greatly. As a result, there are some bad sadness to mislead consumers. There are often some real and fake Monkey Kings in the mahogany furniture market, such as: small leaf red sandalwood and blood sandalwood; African pear and hedgehog red sandalwood; Minibus flowers and Burmese pears.
This is the common substitution of low-priced wood for high-priced wood. Take the small-leaved red sandalwood and blood sandalwood as examples, the price difference between these two kinds of wood is a hundred times, and the replacement of small-leaved red sandalwood with blood sandalwood can be said to be violent. Therefore, many unscrupulous merchants flock to it, play word games, and sell African small-leaved red sandalwood as Indian small-leaved red sandalwood.
Second, low-priced mahogany is mixed with high-priced material furniture
In addition to the previous word games, some merchants will do it more hidden, mixing low-priced mahogany with high-priced furniture. A common example of this is red sandalwood.
As you know, rosewood on the market is very scarce. As a result, unscrupulous merchants will use colors and patterns to approach the "Kotan" of Côte d'Ivoire with red sandalwood.
As a new favorite in the market, red sour branches are often mixed into the "flower branches" of Southeast Asia, Panama and Mexico.
3. White-barked mahogany furniture
White bark, commonly known as "sapwood", refers to the part of the bark outside the core of the tree, which is very prone to insect infestation, and can be said to be a big killer of mahogany furniture. Some unscrupulous merchants will use white skin, and color and texture the white skin part so that the white skin part is not easy to identify.
Fourth, use iron nails
As we all know, one of the keys to the inheritance of mahogany furniture is the unique mortise and tenon structure of mahogany furniture. The mortise and tenon structure does not use iron nails, but it makes the wood tightly fastened to each other. Experienced carpenters only use mortise and tenon structures, and it is very time-consuming, which increases the cost of mahogany furniture by a large margin. Therefore, some mahogany furniture factories will use iron nails. This phenomenon is very common in cheap Vietnamese mahogany furniture. After 3-5 years, the iron nails will rust, and it will also cause the furniture to fall apart, which greatly shortens the service life of mahogany furniture.
Mahogany furniture using iron nails can be said to be products that do not have the soul of mahogany furniture.
The above are the counterfeiting methods used in the mahogany furniture industry. There is still a long way to go to standardize the mahogany furniture market. There are still many conscientious enterprises in the mahogany industry that are serious about quality.