Buy Rosewood Furniture Beware of Counterfeiting

Mr. Pang intends to buy a piece of red sandalwood, one of which is like, and the other is to preserve value. However, he heard a claim that some of the purple sandalwood furniture on the market is a “counterfeit and shoddy” product, and some of the rosewood furniture is actually made of cheap, similar wood. He turned to the Jinghua home editorial department for help and wanted to know if there was a way to distinguish the authenticity of rosewood furniture, and he hoped that experts would tell him how to pick rosewood furniture.

Does the red sandalwood's counterfeiter Mr. Pang's worries be superfluous? Actually not. According to industry sources, with the increase in the worth of rosewood furniture, many businesses move their brains in the red sandalwood, and some ordinary wood also began to "mix the fish" in order to sell a good price.

According to Sun Shudong, director of the Furniture Inspection Room of the National Furniture and Indoor Environmental Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, the chief culprit posing as a rosewood is "Cote d'oro. Endian Wood of Côte d'Ivoire is also known as Cote d'Ivoire, Cote D'Or. From the naked eye, whether it is texture or color, "Ke Tan" is very similar to the red sandalwood. After making it into furniture, it is even more difficult to distinguish authenticity from the naked eye. Fu Junmin, general manager of Xuanming Classical Residence, who specializes in rosewood mahogany furniture, also introduced that there are vendors on the market that have given it a name of "African Lobular Rosewood." Since it is not mahogany, the price of raw materials is only 20,000 yuan / ton, and it grows very close to rosewood, so that some businesses have a hard time thinking.

The red sandalwood rosewood, commonly known as "Big Red Sandalwood," is also easily sold to consumers as a rosewood. Fu Junmin said that the price of Lushi Dalbergia is only a fraction of that of red sandalwood, but because “looking like” resembles red sandalwood, it also has the name “big red sandalwood” and it is easy to flick some unsuspecting consumers.

Fluorescent response verification body for so many counterfeiters, when purchasing rosewood furniture, how to identify the body? Some methods have also been circulated in the market, saying that it can be tested through some small tests. On the website, the reporter saw a demonstration of a mahogany company: four or five beakers filled with alcohol were placed on a table, and several small blocks of similar material were placed in beakers. The reaction in beakers is different: Red sand is rapidly rising in the beaker. Red sand is rising in the beaker, but the slow, light color of the beaker is the red sandalwood of Ivory Coast. Black Dalbergia. Business introduction, because the Côte d’Ivoire rosewood and Lushi Dalbergia can be easily impersonated as red sandalwood, consumers can use this method to identify the authenticity.

Is this test result reliable? Sun Shudong introduced that the red sandalwood does have a fluorescent reaction, but the practice in this test is not scientific and the conclusions reached are not necessarily accurate. According to him, the species of the genus Pterocarpus will have a fluorescent reaction - put the Pterocarpus into the water, and after a period of silence, you can see the surface of the water with a layer of blue light, by which you can distinguish whether the wood is red sandalwood. Although the wood in the genus Pterostendra includes red sandalwood, rose hip, and Asian pear, because the color and shape of the pear and arahuai rosewood are easier to distinguish with the naked eye, it is unlikely that there will be merchants who will impersonate rosewood and Asian pear as red sandalwood, so this way The discrimination is still relatively accurate.

He also believes that in the merchant's test, after placing the red sandalwood in an alcohol beaker, alcohol reacts with the extracts in the middle of the tree species and no fluorescence reaction occurs. If you simply rely on the color of the beaker, it is difficult to identify the true and false material, and does not rule out the possibility of some wood dye, so this method is not recommended.

Regulate name protection rights Even if the manufacturer's wood is true, but how to prove that the consumer intends to purchase the rosewood furniture is made of rosewood? According to Fu Junmin, consumers can allow businesses to take a small piece of material from a piece of furniture to conduct the test. This will not damage the furniture, and it is also very easy to repair.

In addition to viewing the fluorescent reaction, the experts said that to purchase rosewood furniture, consumers should also observe the color of the wood. The furniture made of genuine rosewood is usually purple or purple black, and the tiny cow hair can be seen with the naked eye. Differentiating genuine and fake rosewood furniture practices are similar to those of traditional Chinese medicine: "look, smell, ask, cut": Observe the color and texture of the wood. Look at the appearance and structure of the wood. Red sandalwood furniture should retain the natural color of wood without painting. Waxing can be, you encounter furniture painted purple sandalwood, consumers should pay attention to; percussion furniture to listen to sound, rosewood sound and other wood is also different; asked the salesman of wood material, specific to the wood's scientific name; Touch the furniture, experience the touch and craftsmanship.

According to industry insiders, general merchants introduce furniture, use the lack of professional knowledge of consumers, and verbally guarantee that it is made of rosewood, but on the invoice indicate the name of "Africa lobular rosewood", "big leaf red sandalwood", once the consumer When buying a home is found to be fooled, it is often difficult to protect rights because of insufficient evidence. Therefore, Sun Shudong reminded consumers that when purchasing red sandalwood furniture, the operator must specify the material of the purchased mahogany furniture on the furniture purchase contract, and must write the name of the regular wood specified in the timber standard instead of the common name.