What are the hidden rules in the mahogany furniture industry?

The first sin: deceiving consumers into being purely handmade

It is no longer possible to have newly made mahogany furniture that is purely handmade. Basically, handcrafts and machines are separated, and the proportions It's five or five, or four or six! Of course, there are even more exaggerated ones. Furniture carvings are all done by computer carving. After the initial embryo is carved, the carving master trims, scrapes and waxes the carvings. The furniture produced by some unscrupulous manufacturers also requires coloring, painting or gluing. These two processes are purely manual, time-consuming and durable. For example, if a 10-piece set of furniture that does not require particularly complicated carvings is made by a traditional handicraft master, it will take one or two years to make the basics. The master has time and earns wages. Other manufacturers cannot afford to stock up on so many raw materials. Money and workers’ wages. Now that the demand for mahogany is so great, how many sets can be made? What a joke!

Of course, there is no guarantee in everything, and it does not rule out that individual companies and individuals are purely handmade.

The second crime: forging the internal structure of furniture

According to technical requirements, the internal structure of mahogany furniture should be assembled using the mortise and tenon structure that our country has been proud of for thousands of years, but the mortise and tenon structure The structure requires a high degree of accuracy, and there are very strict requirements on whether the wood is properly dried. Otherwise, the furniture will easily fall off and deform. Many mahogany manufacturers have very small internal structure tenons, and some even use small wooden nails to fix them, so that people who use metal detectors to detect them cannot detect them. There are strict proportions between the size of the tenon and the size of the furniture, which involves the principles of engineering mechanics and is a highly technical job! Even more sinister, just use iron nails to fix it! You can't see it in the wood anyway. How can such mahogany furniture be spread for hundreds of years?

The third sin: Stopping the toxic "rubber grinding" in order to make a good appearance

The difference between rubber grinding and painting is actually not big, the ultimate purpose is to dry the shoulder bag No one, Bai Bian is fake! Nowadays, when everyone knows that mahogany furniture cannot be painted, the marginal issue of rubber grinding has appeared again. Rubber grinding is more difficult to distinguish than lacquering. Of course, the manufacturing process of rubber grinding is much more complicated than that of lacquering, and the labor cost is very high. That’s even more time! When people paint, they apply color first, paint out the problematic areas of the furniture, then paint, sand them off, and paint again. It only takes one or two coats of labor! Glue grinding, on the other hand, uses glue to smear the entire surface of the wood, then grind it off, apply it again, grind it again and apply it again! Until all the pores in the wood are blocked! The key point is that the glues used are all chemical raw materials and contain a large amount of formaldehyde and benzene. These harmful substances penetrate deep into the pores of the wood and cannot evaporate within a few years. They not only affect the health of the body, but are also harmful to the bodies of the elderly, pregnant women and children. Brain development will cause great harm!

The rubber-rubbed furniture is in very good condition, sells well, and looks very beautiful. Ordinary people can hardly tell the difference with the naked eye! Gum grinding can also cover up the problem of cracking and deformation caused by insufficient drying of wood. There are also many hidden counterfeiting projects, such as: white skin, white edges, cracking and even rotten heart (heartwood), etc. Some unscrupulous manufacturers have rotten wood inside. Filling with cement, and this concealment project will not appear in a short period of time, which also causes many consumers to lament that "the outside is golden, but the inside is ruined" after using rubber-ground furniture for a few years. There are also some who think that Those who know something can use sandpaper to polish it to distinguish the authenticity. Let me tell you, the rubber grinder cannot be rubbed off even with fine sandpaper. It needs to be rubbed hard with very fine sandpaper to be able to rub it off, and then you can see the problem. ! Of course, this piece of furniture will be ruined!

The fourth sin: Hyping up the appearance in order to increase the selling price.

Pure handwork cannot deceive people, personally. The company began to speculate on the appearance of the furniture, saying that its craftsmanship and appearance are very different and its artistic content is high. Believe it or not, the price will be higher anyway.

The fifth case! Sin: Hyping the concept of single board

The so-called single board is a board made of a whole piece of wood. Due to the huge demand for wood, the wood takes a long time to grow and is relatively rare, so it is hyped by the industry. Especially expensive. In fact, the larger the plate, the easier it is to crack and deform! According to the principles of engineering mechanics, the stress on its structure is not good.

I think the so-called works of art must be applicable. I don’t like to offer works of art there, just put a few sticks of incense to say goodbye! There are also some unscrupulous merchants who buy back a single board, cut it into countless thin slices, and directly paste the leather on the left and right sides, top and bottom of the furniture to make it look fake, making the entire furniture panel look like it is made of single board, thereby increasing the price. , Make huge profits!

The sixth sin: "Masters" are flying everywhere in the industry

No matter what industry you are in, so-called experts, professors, masters, etc. are everywhere, and the same is true for the mahogany industry. , the so-called furniture associations in the industry and the furniture exhibitions organized by central personnel represent serious central protectionism. The first place in the design award must be a product from a local company! As long as you participate in the exhibition, some manufacturers only need to pay a certain "production fee" to the Furniture Association and the main exhibitor. Some manufacturers call it "labor fee", and you can receive the corresponding award. The manufacturer can also easily get anything. Titles like "Master".

The seventh sin: The rebates in the industry are astonishing

Many consumers think that mahogany is not well-received. It is safer to buy mahogany furniture through friends and relatives who work in mahogany, and you can get discounts. It can be said to be great value for money, but people don't know that after you pay for the transaction, you will get a rebate ranging from 10% to 30%. For example, if the merchant's bottom line is 80,000 yuan for this set of furniture, then the person who takes you to buy the furniture will have basic rebate points. If you are treated as an elephant and ripped off to 100,000 yuan, or even higher, then he will get this rebate. But it’s big! The 20,000 10% rebate in the price difference is the bottom line. Some even range from 30% to 50%. If buying mahogany is an investment, how many years later will your furniture really be sold? Who will pick up this set of furniture from you? There’s a price but no market! It cannot be circulated. If you really like it, you must choose the right manufacturer and don't be deceived!

Consumers are often misled by salespeople through various methods such as discounts and promotions so that they can obtain high commissions. They are often behind the sky-high prices of mahogany furniture. For example, the bottom line price of a set of mahogany furniture sold by a merchant is 100,000 yuan, and his selling price may range from 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, waiting for consumers to bargain! And those salesmen are all veterans, as long as it is not lower than When sales come in with a bottom line of 100,000, they can easily get 1-10% commission. The higher the price, the greater the commission, so the discount is mostly just a cloud.

The Eighth Sin: Falsifying Information

Coloring: Coloring is to paint the white bark mixed in the mahogany into the color of the mahogany. The texture can be painted one by one by a craftsman. It takes a lot of time to draw the pen! The craftsman can paint the white wood into the natural wood, or he can paint the newly cut wood into the so-called old mahogany wood (many manufacturers take advantage of the scarcity of the old material to increase the sales price. ) Just imagine which manufacturer would put rosewood materials in the factory without production or circulation for the first 10 years, and then wait for the price to rise ten years later to start production and sales?

Just imagine, after such superb coloring, After applying the paint, even Mr. Lu Ban might not be able to tell the real thing from the fake one. What's more, the paint on it is all chemical paint! I'm afraid of death. I definitely don't use anything that is unhealthy or not environmentally friendly. Why spend so much money to threaten the health of my family?

The ninth sin: The scientific name of the data cannot be accurately detected

With so many fraud techniques, many people must have thought of quality inspection. At present, the national standard stipulates that the wood species of mahogany furniture include 33 types of wood in five genera and eight categories. Mahogany refers to these 33 types of wood. At present, our domestic authoritative testing agency is the Wood Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The testing agency only detects "genus", and Wood science does not understand this statement. Please note that the types of wood tested are different. The testing agency will only detect specific categories and will not accurately identify the tree species. Let’s take an example to understand. For example, the red rosewood material that we all like, the testing agency only detects that it is red rosewood, and will not write the scientific name: Cochin Dalbergia, and red rosewood has many origins, including Vietnam. , Laos, Brazil, etc. Different origins, different tree growth environments, and naturally different prices! The one we all recognize most currently is Laos red rosewood. If consumers insist on asking merchants to issue the wood as Cochin Dalbergia, in fact, the merchants will just say so. When it comes to lawsuits, it's all just a cloud, and other institutions don't issue certificates, so how do you handle it? Whether a business can deceive consumers by passing off substandard tree species under the category, then it depends on the brand and the integrity of the business. Otherwise, it depends on the brand and the integrity of the business. You can compete with your character!