The walnut wood is hard, has good toughness, wear resistance, has certain bending resistance and corrosion resistance, and is very suitable for carving. The walnut wood is not easily deformed and cracked after a long time of drying treatment. The maintenance of walnut wood furniture is generally light-colored material, rubbing oil, and rubbing wax. It can make the texture and gloss of furniture natural and clear, and its style is similar to the pear, and gives a natural and plump feeling. Below, Chen Changwen of China Wood Business Network introduces in detail what kind of wood walnut is and how to deal with it so that it will not crack?
1. What kind of wood is walnut?
1. Walnut is also called walnut, walnut, and walnut, which is a kind of wood. If you have to be serious, the wood with walnuts is walnut wood, and the wood without walnuts is walnut. In fact, there is no essential difference.
2. Walnut belongs to the genus Juglans, the sapwood of deciduous trees is yellowish brown to chestnut brown, and the heartwood is reddish brown to chestnut brown. Sometimes purple, with dark streaks, dark brown over time, with obvious growth rings. The wood rays are thin, and the wood tube holes contain dark gums and oils. The wood is hard and has a good luster.
2. What grade of wood is walnut?
Walnut is a hardwood with a maturity period of more than 50 years to hundreds of years. It is a world-renowned interior decoration material and one of the three most valuable tree species in Northeast China. The material of walnut is quite different. The heartwood is generally light reddish brown to tan, with a tinge of purple. The color of the wood is pleasing and elegant, sometimes with beautiful spots or stripes; the sapwood is light in color, mostly grayish white or light brown. Tree roots, galls, etc. often have special patterns, and they are precious decorative materials after sawing into thin wood. The hardness of walnut wood is medium to slightly hard and heavy, the fiber structure is fine and uniform, and it has strong toughness, especially in terms of anti-vibration and anti-wear performance, and has certain bending and corrosion resistance, but the sapwood needs to be painted to prevent termite. Walnut wood needs to go through a slow drying process. After that, it is not easy to deform and crack. It is very suitable for tenoning, carving, etc., and its adhesive properties are also good. The furniture and carving crafts made of walnut wood are known for their simplicity and elegance, the texture is warm and delicate, the texture is beautiful and solid and durable, which can show the natural beauty of carving and grinding skills and wood texture.
3. What are the characteristics of walnut wood?
Walnut is a world-renowned interior decoration material with a maturity period of more than 50 years to hundreds of years. The material of walnut is quite different. The heartwood is generally light reddish brown to tan, with a tinge of purple. The color of the wood is pleasing and elegant, sometimes with beautiful spots or stripes; the sapwood is light in color, mostly grayish white or light brown. Tree roots, galls, etc. often have special patterns, and they are precious decorative materials after sawing into thin wood. The hardness of walnut wood is medium to slightly hard and heavy, the fiber structure is fine and uniform, and it has the characteristics of strong toughness.
4. How to deal with cracking of walnut wood plank?
The walnut wood panels are all heated by steam. The wood drying kiln uses the circulating steam as the heat source to continuously decompose, evaporate and discharge the moisture and lipids inside the walnut wood panels that need to be dried, so as to achieve drying, For the purpose of shaping, the qualified rate reaches more than 90%, and it has the functions of eliminating the growth stress of walnut wood and killing insects and sterilizing.
5. Is walnut wood plate good for furniture?
Walnut wood panels are very good for furniture. As early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, walnut wood was used as furniture in the homes of officials. The main reasons are:
1. The color of walnut is very beautiful. The sapwood of walnut is milky white, and the heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate, with occasional purple and darker streaks.
2. The tree grain of walnut is generally straight, sometimes wavy or curly, forming a pleasing decorative pattern. The appearance of the walnut panel furniture produced is very beautiful and textured.
3. The heartwood of walnut board furniture has strong anti-corrosion ability, and is one of the most durable woods even in a corrosive environment, and the sapwood is easily damaged by powder beetles.
4. Walnut planks are easy to use with hand and machine tools. Suitable for nailing, auger and gluing. Long-lasting paint and stain retention and can be sanded to a special finish. But drying is slow and care needs to be taken to avoid reduced losses after drying in the kiln.
5. The walnut board has good splitting resistance and toughness, slow drying, good flexibility, good walnut wood, smooth surface, easy to carve, polish, and good adhesion. The walnut wood has straight or oblique grain, fine and uniform structure, medium quality, hardness and strength, dry shrinkage, slow drying, but stable quality and no deformation.
Six, the advantages and disadvantages of walnut plank
Furniture made of walnut board is very common in our lives, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of this board?
The advantages of walnut plank
1. The color of walnut wood is elegant, the wood grain is exquisite and unique, clear and charming, and the furniture produced is elegant and generous;
2. The sweat rate of walnut wood is low, and the dry shrinkage and wet expansion of wood will not have a significant impact on walnut furniture;
3. Walnut furniture is not easy to crack and deform.
4. Strong hot-pressing ability; strong durability; strong anti-corrosion ability of heartwood.