Oak and cherry have their own benefits, choose the one that suits you.

First of all, let's talk about cherry wood, cherry wood material is strong, fine grain, with brown or red luster, can be used for fine carving, grain straight and regular, cherry wood bending performance is good, hardness is low, medium strength, easy to process, is a kind of high-grade wood, suitable for high-grade home furnishings.

White oak origin is not the same, the quality is also slightly different, the better is the United States origin, belongs to more than one hundred years into the precious tree species, most of them are also straight grain, the sapwood is white to light brown, the color is more pure, can be used to process the original color of the wood or made of a variety of stained wood products and furniture, the structure of the more coarse, wear-resistant, more difficult to process.

The difference between the various types of aspects:

One, price, texture

In general, the price of cherry wood will be higher than the price of white oak, the so-called one penny a penny, if you have a sufficient budget you can give priority to consider cherry wood; texture, cherry wood is wavy wood grain, there is a sense of vintage, contain Brown tree heart spots and fine gum nests, white oak texture presents mountain rows or radial, wear-resistant, touch the surface of the texture is good.

Two, color, performance

Cherry wood color compared to the color of white oak is more retro some, with the use of the longer, the color will change from light yellow to high-level caramel color, white oak color is more stable, the color is more elegant; take the density of the two compared to the density of cherry wood, lower density, made of furniture is not as durable as the furniture of white oak wear resistance, impact resistance and collision resistance is not as good as white oak. White oak is not as good.

Three, stability, style

Cherry wood in different environments is easy to become dry, dry shrinkage, stability compared to white oak is better, less prone to cracking because of deformation; because of cherry wood color darker relationship, cherry wood is more suitable for classical style decoration, such as the original wind, Scandinavian style and Japanese style, etc., and white oak color is lighter, more suitable for the simple style, vintage Scandinavian style. Simple style, retro Scandinavian, European and American and new Chinese style is more suitable.