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What wood is suitable for furniture?

First, there are many kinds of cork, which can be made into furniture at a price acceptable to most people. Many softwoods are also used with hardwoods. Such as beech, nanmu, camphor, pine and Chinese fir are all common cork materials.

1, willow eucalyptus: its material weight is moderate, its texture is straight or oblique, its structure is slightly coarse, it is easy to process and its gluing performance is good. There is slight warping and cracking during drying.

2, beech, beech here refers to beech, and "South beech" beech in China traditional furniture are two different things. Beech is bright in color, pale yellow, with dense "needles" (wood rays) and mountain-shaped patterns in rotary cutting. Beech imported from Europe has fewer defects and is much better than domestic beech. Imported beech wood belongs to high-grade wood in China and is often used as veneer. Solid wood is also used as dining chairs and cubes.

3, maple, maple is light yellow, with hills, the biggest feature is "shadow" (local luster is obvious). Maple belongs to the middle-grade wood, and the common ones are veneer and solid wood.

4. cherries. Imported cherry wood is mainly produced in Europe and North America. The wood is light yellow brown with elegant texture. The tangential section is a medium parabola with a small circle in the middle. Cherry wood is also high-grade wood, furniture generally uses wood skin, rarely uses solid wood.

5, birch, birch color is light yellow, easy to distinguish the feature is that it is more "waterline" (black line). Birch is also a mid-range wood, and solid wood and veneer are common.

6, rubber wood, rubber wood is light yellow in color, with messy small rays, obvious annual rings, dark belts in the wheel boundary and few tube holes. The wooden structure is thick and uniform. The texture is oblique and the wood is hard. Advantages: smooth section, easy adhesion and good painting performance.

7. Oak wood: heavy and hard material, rough structure, obvious wood rays, high mechanical strength, not easy to dry, process, resist loss and cementation, but good coloring performance and bending performance. It is often used as furniture face material and veneer.

8. Pine: no carving, clear texture, delicate lines, loose fragrance and beautiful texture. The production process is demanding and needs drying and degreasing.

9. Catalpa bungeana: The wood is shiny, slightly thick in structure, slow in drying, not easy to warp, easy to process and strong in nailing.

10, elm: the wood is tough, the texture is clear, the hardness and strength are moderate, and it can be adapted to general carving relief, with smooth plane, beautiful chord pattern and "chicken wing wood" pattern. After drying, shaping, carving and polishing, elm can make exquisite lacquer carving crafts.

1 1, Cinnamomum camphora: It is found in all provinces in southern China, and is abundant in Taiwan Province Province and Fujian Province. The tree diameter is larger, the wood width is wider, the pattern is beautiful, especially it has a strong fragrance, which can drive away insects. China's camphor wood boxes are well-known at home and abroad, including suitcases, sleeping boxes (suitcases), top boxes and cabinets. Only tables and chairs are mostly in Beijing. In the old wood industry, camphor wood is divided into several types according to its shape, such as camphor, camphor tree, camphor tree, camphor tree, camphor tree, camphor tree and so on.

12, black walnut, the best one of walnut, mainly produced in North America and Europe. Walnut made in China is lighter in color. Black walnut is light dark brown with purple, and the cutting surface is a beautiful large parabolic pattern (mountain pattern). Black walnut is very expensive. Furniture is generally made of wood skin, rarely solid wood.

13. Poplar: It is often used as the accessory of elm furniture and the fetal bone of lacquer furniture in ancient furniture. This is the so-called poplar, also known as "Populus simonii", which often has a piece of luster, so it is also called "satin poplar", not the kind of Su Yang, Populus euphratica and Populus euphratica introduced in the middle of this century.

14. Walnut wood: Lvliang and Taihang Mountain are rich in walnuts. Walnut is the first-class material for making furniture in Jin Dynasty, which has been polished by water mill and waxed. It will have a hardwood-like luster, delicate and asexual texture, easy to carve, and elegant and soft color. Its products are available in Ming and Qing dynasties, and most of them are excellent. Available and hidden. Its wooden features are only fine needle-like brown eyes and yellowish filiform annual rings. Weight and elm, etc.

Second, hardwood has a long spread time because of its stable wood properties. Common hardwoods are rosewood, Huang Huali, wingwood and rosewood.

Red sandalwood: the most precious wood, with solid texture but slow growth, so most furniture is made of several tenons. If there is a whole board, it is quite precious and rare. Its color is mostly purple and black, which exudes a quiet and noble temperament.

Rosewood: Pterocarya stenoptera, a precious tree species with high quality and dark heartwood. The sapwood of rosewood heartwood is obviously different, and the sapwood is yellow-white to grayish brown; Heartwood is reddish brown, purple to purplish brown; The wood is uniform in color and has dark stripes, but the annual rings are not obvious or slightly obvious.

Chicken wing wood: solid texture, purple-brown texture. In modern times, their lines are smoother and new ideas are injected into the tradition. Sour branches: Good sour branches are similar to rosewood, but the luster and color are slightly lighter, the color is warm and thick, and the yield is more.