Chicken wing wood is distributed in subtropical areas and belongs to a kind of redwood. It is named after the texture of "chicken wings". Some furniture in Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty were made of this kind of chicken wing wood. Nowadays, many people who like Chinese decoration will choose these mahogany furniture for decoration. 1. See if it's veneer chicken wing wood furniture. The so-called leather-pasted furniture is based on artificial board, and a layer of 0.6 mm thick solid wood skin is pasted on the surface of the base material, and at the same time, perforated paint is painted to protect the solid wood surface. Although this technique is a kind of craft, it would be deceiving consumers to use this kind of veneer chicken-wing wood furniture as chicken-wing wood furniture. So how can we distinguish them? Chicken-winged wood furniture has a characteristic: if there is a pattern on one side, it is absolutely beautiful on the other side. If there are patterns on both sides, it is absolutely fraudulent.

2. Be cautious about the dark-colored chicken wing wood furniture to see if a lot of white leather is used. Chicken wing wood is darker in color to cover the white skin. The wood properties of Pteris mollissima are relatively active, and its shrinkage and swelling degree are relatively larger than other redwood materials when wet and dry changes drastically, especially the white skin part, which is more prone to deformation. Therefore, don't let the color mislead the use of white chicken wing wood furniture.

3. There is no need to emphasize "single board". Chicken wing wood is not short of beating materials, and single board is not uncommon. Moreover, the greater the increase in the use of a single board, the easier it is to deform, and the pattern is not as good-looking as the pattern of the puzzle.

There are two main types of wingwood in the existing market:

First, the new chicken wing wood. The new chicken wing wood mentioned here is still a product of Qing Dynasty. From the mid-Qing Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the old chicken wing wood ran out and the new chicken wing wood appeared. The new wingwood is slightly heavier in color, brown, and slightly yellow in texture; The weight is heavier, which can be distinguished from the old chicken wing wood by weight; The texture is obvious, and the new chicken wing wood is more beautiful than the old chicken wing wood in the eyes of ordinary people. The new chicken wing wood has thick fiber, good toughness and is not easy to carve, so anyone who carves with the new chicken wing wood is rough. There are many varieties of new pterodactylis, both good and bad, and there should be more than one or two places of origin. From the perspective of furniture, we should know that it is enough, so we don't have to dig deep into it, otherwise we will go astray.

Second, the old chicken wing wood. This kind of chicken wing wood was used in all furniture in Ming Dynasty and some furniture in early Qing Dynasty.

1. It's not difficult to distinguish the old chicken wing wood. The first thing is the weight. The old chicken wing wood is light, the lightest in the hardwood family, and even less than some "firewood", such as beech wood. A piece of chicken wing wood furniture, you can know whether it is old chicken wing wood by weighing the weight;

2. Color, the old chicken wing wood is gray, especially after years of wax loss, its color is gray and ugly. After waxing, the color is slightly lighter, and the texture of chicken wings can be distinguished;

3. However, the texture is not obvious. Old chicken wing wood is not as beautiful as imagined, and inexperienced people are often confused with iron wood. However, there is a simple and feasible way to distinguish the old chicken wing wood: stand up the nail and gently cross the wood grain in a 90-degree direction. The smooth one is the old chicken wing wood, and the one with a sense of jumping with the grain is the iron wood. The fiber of old chicken wing wood is flexible and can be used for general carving. The extremely fine carving is not seen on Ming-style chicken wing wood furniture, which shows the limitations of chicken wing wood material.

There are many species of Pteris cristata, which should be a rare tree species, and it is inferred that there are no big trees. After being endowed with a beautiful crown by the literati, the nature of the chicken wing wood became very spiritual.