Wood definitions


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Carving and/or embossing: when you look at craving on a furniture item you should, at least as a point of information, ask if the area was carved or embossed. In all fairness, real human craftsman any more. A few remaining craftsmen which are then put into master craving machines to produce ten or twenty carved sections at a time. These machines produce outstanding carved sections. Put society just doesn’t need a lot of wood carvers any more, and thus it is a dying duce them quickly in the quantities needed for large production runs

Chipcore, particleboard, high density boards : good or bad? Well, like most other things in this world, they can beBoth good and bad. If someone told you an item was "all wood", would that really tell you anything? It shouldn't, because "all wood" doesn't tell you anything about the kind wood used, how it was handled, how it was finished and so on. You simply do not have enough information with which to make an informed judgment. This is the case with chipcore and particleboard. It is a tact that qualitv items are manufactured using these products because they produce a superior foundation for veneers. These manmade core materials, when well-made, have the advantage of being almost impervious to Moisture, thus providing a foundation for veneer that is not going to move, swell or shrink-it is dimensionally stable. This stable foundation will allow veneer to be positioned without any undue tension on it, so that stress on the finish will be minimized, and any chance of the finish crazing, etc., is greatly reduced. Done Propertly , it is a plus for you. Done improperly, it simhly makes a piece of Poor furniture. I would bet the piece of furnitureyou are looking at would have revealed itself to you as poor quality long before you needed to ask if any "chipcore" was used in the manufacture of it.

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