The main characteristic of ebony and USES

ebony, formal name is 'striped ebony'. Its depth and white stripes. Lumber luster, no special smell. Grain is black and white alternate with, until the shallow crisscross, Burma and uniform structure, corrosion resistance, durability strong, hard heavy, delicate texture, texture structure is more uniform. Second ebony no special smell, it air dry density is larger, so can sink in the water and more hard.

ebony is a more valuable timber, the cycle of because it grows slowly. Ebony can be used to make furniture, also can be made into wood for people viewing, it also has a certain effect. Ebony stripes don't have a lot of different origin, striped ebony relatively recognition in the market is Indonesia, other origin of ebony quality is relatively poor, and even the produce from other places in the striped ebony called 'false Indonesia ebony'.

, ebony ebony features a quality extremely high hardness, not easy to wear and tear, new wood color shows violet black, slightly mountain shape to the wood grain, pure black old wood, basic no wood grain. Ebony air dry density of 0. 9 - 1. 14, sink into the water, ( Individual parts based on density slightly smaller) , wood structure is very dense, hard heavy and uniform material, wood black with grey brown to pale red light color stripe, abrasion resistance and dry after deformation, high oil content, in the high temperature has obvious phenomenon of oil, the fine after polishing a little sense, is not easy to crack.

ebony characteristics 2, ebony wood scent is very light, is the taste of some dry dry astringent, use the tip of the tongue lick, wood without taste; Water immersion, but out of the dark brown pigment; With alcohol, soon the plumes of dark brown pigment, the pigment in a short period of time will not spread out, very clear; On the white stretch out a little, you can see brown stripes.

want to identify the pattern of ebony, first of all, we can see it, the texture of the ebony is black and white and is straight, texture structure is more uniform, very recognizable. At the same time, the smell of ebony is lighter. The weight of the second you can see it, we know there are some wood can float on the water, but the ebony air dry density is bigger, so it can sink in water, and has a high hardness. Main purpose

Indonesia ebony oil is higher, but the wood small caliber, commonly used in making beads or comb handicraft. The market used to make black sandal wood tea tray, and tea tables and chairs are African ebony ( African striped ebony) 。 Ebony is a famous precious furniture, luxury decoration, craft sculpture, and instrument material. Because the quality of a material is hard, dense, drowned in the water, many now also used to produce high-grade tea tables and chairs and high-grade ebony tea tray.

common ebony black no three kinds:

1, African ebony decorative pattern: this pattern black with stripes are for the same kind of trees out of the material, just different cutting method and pattern is different, the stripe for the longitudinal cutting, the pattern for oblique cutting.

2, striped ebony Africa: obvious black Huang Wen, wood grain is striped, wood fiber is coarse, this also called African ebony wood.

3, mozambique skin ash wood, The windmill wood) : gray color, color close to the film of old wood, pore bulky, has obvious hairy grain, the wood grain direction is in mountain striate, stripes, rare wood grain alternating black and yellow in color.