There are three kinds of chicken-winged wood:

One, white-flowered cliff bean wood

White-flowered cliff bean wood (commonly known as Burmese chicken-winged wood, black chicken-winged), is abundant in Burma and Thailand.

It is a cliff bean plants, wood luster is weak, no special smell and taste, texture until slightly interlaced, structure, slightly uniform, very hard, high strength. Drying performance is good, the wood pattern is very beautiful, generally to make expensive furniture.

Two, iron knife wood

Mainly produced in South and Southeast Asia, China Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi.

Because the material is hard, hard to enter the knife and axe and named. Leguminosae cassia genus of evergreen trees, about 10 meters high, bark gray, nearly smooth, slightly longitudinal crack; shoots are angular, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 20-30 cm long, leaf axis and petiole without glands, puberulent, leaflets opposite. Racemes are borne in the leaf axils at the tips of branches and arranged in corymb-like inflorescences, bracts linear, sepals suborbicular, petals yellow, broadly obovate. Pods flattened, margins thickened, 10-20-seeded. Flowering October-November, fruiting December-January of the following year.

The wood is hard and dense, resistant to water and moisture, not subject to oysters, for the best furniture raw materials. The old wood is black and has a beautiful texture, so it can be used to decorate musical instruments. Because of its rapid growth, strong budding force, branches and trunks of combustible, firepower, in Yunnan cultivated as a large number of charcoal forests.

Three, Stu Yidu wood

that is, the African chicken wing wood, originating in Africa.

Pterocarpus genus, belongs to a kind of African mahogany, the tree up to 18 ~ 21m, 1.2m in diameter. trunk length is usually 3 ~ 4.5m.

Wood luster is weak, no special smell and taste; grain until slightly interlaced, the structure of the medium, a little uniform, very hard, high strength. Drying performance is good, the wood pattern is very beautiful, generally to make expensive furniture.

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Furniture advantages and disadvantages:

(A), the advantages

Chicken Wing Wood furniture has a remarkable unique texture, the quality is very good, compared to other types of mahogany is more susceptible to insects. The furniture made of chicken wing wood looks very classy, very much loved by the elegant people, and chicken wing wood furniture is very artistic, put in the home can definitely highlight the owner's taste.

(2), the shortcomings

New Chicken Wing Wood furniture wood rough, wood sometimes easy to crack stubble. And chicken wing wood furniture carving slightly difficult, so there are few sets of chicken wing wood furniture on the market.

Maintenance taboos:

(a), do not pile up heavy objects on the surface of the chicken-winged wood products, or mixed with keys and other hard objects, so as not to cause the chicken-winged wood twisted, deformed.

(2) Don't use wet cloth to wipe or rinse chicken-winged wood products with water, and avoid applying items with chemical reagents. What's more, you can't use alkaline water, alcohol and other corrosive chemicals to wipe the chicken-winged wood, so as not to destroy and damage the wood fiber.

(3), do not use "Gosho salt" and other substances to clean the chicken wing wood. "Gosho salt" is coarse sea salt, soak with it to "purify" the wood, not only can not play the role of conservation of the wood, but will greatly damage the wood, resulting in coarsening of the wood, discoloration and cracking.

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