How to distinguish between different textures of wood grains

Wooden furniture is one of the most popular ones in the furniture market. Furniture upholstery paper is an environmentally friendly decorative surface paper, cheaper than solid wood furniture, with the characteristics of waterproof, fireproof, easy to clean, etc. Applications are wooden cabinets, oak sofas, walnut beds, maple chairs, etc. You can learn more about the popular wood grain as follows.

1. Oak

They are mainly distributed in North America, Russia and northeast China. The heart of the tree is yellow-brown to reddish-brown, with obvious annual rings, slightly wavy, heavy and hard.

Oak has two categories: red oak and white oak, but red oak is not red and white oak is not white, so the difference is not obvious.

Oak has a more obvious mountain wood grain, tactile surface has a very good texture, quite beautiful.

Identification method: oak wood texture, light color, beautiful texture, long and thick wood spurs, uneven distribution of wood spurs.

2. Walnut

Walnut is one of the best woods, mainly produced in North America and Europe. Domestic walnut color is lighter. Black walnut is light black-brown with purple, its string section is a beautiful large parabolic pattern (or large mountain pattern).

The sapwood of walnut is creamy white, and the heartwood ranges from light brown to dark chocolate, with occasional purple and darker streaks. The wood grain is generally straight, sometimes with wavy or curly grain, creating a pleasing decorative pattern.

There is a large parabolic mountain pattern. The wood grain is generally straight. Wood spines are numerous, dense and medium-sized, so walnut looks full of spines.

3. Maple

Maple is divided into soft maple and hard maple. It is produced south of the Yangtze River Valley to Taiwan, and abroad in the eastern United States. Maple is gray-brown to gray-red, and the annual rings are not obvious. Maple grain interlacing, structural kidney thin and uniform, light and hard texture, beautiful pattern.

Identification: maple leaf ring is not obvious, the official hole is much smaller and more evenly distributed. Maple wood with few spurs, creamy white and reddish-brown color, lighter color.

4. Camphor wood

Camphor wood, evergreen trees, yellow-brown bark, with irregular longitudinal fissures, mainly produced in the south of the Yangtze River and southwest. Wood block size varies, the surface reddish brown to dark brown, cross-section visible annual rings.

Identification: irregular texture, generally with graphic patterns.

5. Beech wood

Beech wood, produced in southern China, so it is also known as southern elm. It is a unique wood in southeast China, with clear texture, uniform wood grain, and soft and smooth color.

Beech wood has a clear texture, even wood grain and smooth texture. Beech wood is a bit rough. The texture of huanghuali is multi-curve change, while beech wood has a strong regularity.

Identification method: clear texture, soft and smooth tone.

6. Birch

Birch's annual cycle is slightly obvious, the texture is straight and obvious, characterized by more "water line" (black line), birch is a mid-range material, solid wood and veneer common. Produced in Northeast China, North China.

Identification: birch wood is obvious annual rings, straight texture, fine wood, light white, light yellow.

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