What are the advantages and disadvantages of elm wood furniture?

Advantages are as follows:

1, elm furniture mortise and tenon structure, without a nail, rigorous structure, fine workmanship. Elm wood furniture production combined with the way the frame structure are using scientific mortise and tenon structure, simple and firm, in line with the principle of mechanics.

2, China's elm wood furniture to the Ming style models mainly, simple shape, smooth lines, elegant and generous style. Ming style furniture is moderately decorated, simple and simple, local decoration is appropriate.

3, elm furniture is durable, the use of varnish, hand-painted, environmentally friendly, odorless and pollution-free. Elm furniture required wood elm timber cycle in more than fifty years, high density, hard wood, natural texture beautiful. General ash, pine, cherry timber is only three years to five years, short timber time, short wood fiber, soft wood, love deformation.

4, elm heart sapwood distinction is obvious, sapwood is dark yellow, heartwood dark purple gray.

5, elm wood is tough, high mechanical strength, corrosion resistance; hardness and strength moderate, suitable for carving, general relief can be adapted to.

Disadvantages are as follows:

1, after the drying room strict drying of elm furniture is not easy to crack, but elm wood is not easy to dry, there are many elm wood panels on the market for the cost or equipment on the existence of a number of problems, the wood is not in place for the drying, so the production of elm wood furniture is very easy to cracking and deformation.

2, elm old and new points, easy to deformation, love long insects, shrinkage is the shortcomings of the new elm furniture; and the shortcomings of the old elm is that some places there will be old insect eyes, old cracks, old mortise and tenon eyes.