What are the aspects of classical furniture process?

1. Slow drying of wood:

The production of furniture before the first to dry the wood, due to high-grade wood oily, high hardness, in the drying process, from low to high to slowly rise in temperature, when the temperature reaches the requirements, and then slowly cool down, this process is generally one month to two months, and some species of wood is a little longer.

2. Cutting:

The logs are sawn into boards or squares for the production of various artifacts. Cutting is a delicate task, especially for high-grade wood, and under the premise of avoiding the natural defects of the wood, it is necessary to try to put down as long a material as possible, and cut one or two chords according to the direction of the grain of the wood.

3. Engraving saws to process curved edges:

Engraving saws are specialized tools used to cut curved components, the use of flexible, the part of the saw wire is usually processed by the technician himself. Nowadays, in addition to manual labor, they are also operated by machines.

4. Assembly:

Assembling the machined components. When assembling mass-produced components, it is inevitable that there will be problems of looseness, tightness or poor seams, and it is always necessary to trim the tenons or mortises.

5. hand smashed fat:

Traditional furniture using adhesive is mainly swim bladder or pig skin fat (processing of sun-dried swim bladder with warm water to soak soft, and then repeatedly pounded with a wooden mortar until it can be pulled into a strip of skin), to swim bladder adhesive bonded to the furniture, durable, and once in need of repair, only need to be soaked in warm water to be able to open.

6. Carving:

Carving is a decorative pattern on the furniture, according to the requirements of the pattern of carving, carving, high relief, shallow relief, flat carving, carving, round carving and so on. Transparent carving and one side for and two sides for the difference. Flat carving and the difference between yin carving and Yang carving.

7. Clear the ground:

The ground should be very flat after the pattern carving, otherwise it will affect the overall effect of the pattern.

8. Polishing:

After clearing the ground, enter the grinding workshop to start grinding, the traditional practice is to use a file to grind, nowadays more sandpaper is used, generally four times to grind, from coarse to fine each grinding once. Grinding process is critical, directly affecting product quality. If the grinding work is not good, it will wear the work bad; on the other hand, the grinding work is good, but also can make up for the shortcomings of the carving work back.

9. waxing:

A variety of different varieties of wax prepared, heated into a liquid, with a brush on the furniture.

10. Baking wax:

After waxing, in order to make the furniture fully absorb the wax, to use a hot air blower to repeatedly bake, called baking wax.

11. Scrape wax:

Bake wax finished, to put a day and night, so that the wax fully solidified, and then scrape the surface of the floating wax. After scraping the floating wax, wipe with a coarse cloth, fine cloth repeatedly, called polishing.