What are the advantages and disadvantages of elm furniture?

1, the mortise and tenon structure of elm furniture, without a nail, is rigorous in structure and fine in workmanship. The frame structure of elm furniture production combination mode adopts scientific tenon-mortise structure, which is simple and firm and conforms to the mechanical principle.

2. The elm furniture in China is mainly Ming style, with simple shape, smooth lines and elegant style. Ming-style furniture is moderately decorated, moderately complicated and locally decorated.

3. Elm furniture is durable, painted and hand-painted, environmentally friendly, odorless and pollution-free. Ulmus pumila, the wood needed for elm furniture, has a mature period of more than 50 years, high density, hard wood and beautiful natural texture. Generally, it takes only three to five years for Fraxinus mandshurica, pine and cherry to become timber, with short timber time, short wood fiber, soft wood and easy deformation.

4. The sapwood of elm is clearly distinguished, with dark yellow sapwood and dark purple-gray heartwood.

5. Elm is tough, with high mechanical strength and strong corrosion resistance; Moderate hardness and strength, suitable for carving, and can be adapted to general relief carving.

Disadvantages are as follows:

1, elm furniture that has been strictly dried in the drying room is not easy to crack, but elm is not easy to dry. At present, there are many elm boards on the market, and the wood is not dried properly because of many problems in cost or equipment, and the elm furniture made is easy to crack and deform.

2. Elm is divided into old and new, easy to deform, love insects and shrink seriously, which are the shortcomings of new elm furniture; The disadvantage of the old elm is that there will be old wormholes, old cracks and old tenons in some places.