As is known to all, camphorwood has the dense wooden character and beautiful natural texture, at the same time, they are very hard and it is not easy to break down and crack. Since the ancient times, camphorwood is the preferred material for carving. What’s more, because of too many unusual functions, nowadays more and more people are likely to choose the camphorwood furniture for home decoration, however, do you know how to distinguish the genuine camphorwood furniture? If you are interested in this topic, please follow me to read article below.
Firstly, looking at the color. If you are the camphorwood furniture are black or dark color, two possibilities would result in this situation. Firstly, such camphorwood furniture are made from the waste camphor wood collected and for a long time, they begin to change the color. On the other hands, they are not the genuine camphorwood furniture, but other low cost raw material instead, immersed in the camphor oil essence or the similar essence water. As a result, they would have the same color like the genuine camphorwood, however, the color becomes more and more black and dark because of long time soaking. The color of top quality camphorwood is light yellow or red.
Secondly, take a smell on the camphorwood furniture. When you open the package, and then feel the strong pungent smell, it would be the fake ones. Because of soaking in the essence water or camphor oil essence for long time, the smell becomes more and more strong. Genuine camphorwood have the light odor and being placed for a long time, the odor becomes more and more lighter. However, after tearing into pieces, you can still feel the odor. However, if it is the fake camphorwood, you can hardly feel the odor after tearing into pieces because it is too difficult for essence water permeating inside of other wood.
Because of the red and bronze color, beautiful and clear wood texture, hard wood character, camphorwood is the good raw material for top quality furniture. In the past, there are only a small number of camphorwood so that they are precious at high price, only the rich are able to place camphorwood furniture at home for decoration. Nowadays, more and more camphorwood are planted and then chopped down based on the effective planning, therefore it is common to find the camphorwood furniture in the furniture market and even the ordinary households are able to choose them for home decoration.