Chapter 366

Before coming, Li Du did his homework.

According to his understanding, the most precious resources of Hainan huanghuali and Vietnamese huanghuali among mahogany are almost exhausted, and they are basically in a state of price and no market.

The annual supply of lobular red sandalwood is about 5,000 tons, and high-quality old materials with a length of more than 2 meters can be sold for US$250,000 to US$400,000 per ton.

And this price is still the price of raw materials. If it becomes furniture after being carved and polished, the price will be even more astonishing.

Huge profit margins have attracted a large number of fakes to enter this industry. For example, many unscrupulous merchants use African Zambian blood sandalwood as lobular red sandalwood, and many people use Mexican dimpled sandalwood and dimpled rosewood to imitate Laos red sandalwood. Rosewood.

Li Du suspected that these furniture were counterfeit mahogany. At the beginning, the merchant held an auction here to deceive some customers, and ran away after making a fortune.

This is the best way to solve why merchants leave so many 'mahogany' furniture. If they are genuine, Li Du does not believe that Tron Company will forget to take them away.

What's more, he noticed what little Rick said in the bar last night, and the other party said, "See if you can still be so arrogant after the auction is over."

This passage can be interpreted as that Rick and his son will have a lot to do at the auction, so that they can't buy the warehouse. It can also be interpreted as that the other party knows that there are traps in this auction and must deal with them!

Hans searched the Internet, shook his head, and said, "There's not much about—oh, I found it, here's a post about the Trump Mahogany Pavilion..."

Li Du asked, "Is it a news report?"

"No, someone posted a complaint, saying that he bought mahogany furniture, and then was ridiculed by Chinese friends that he bought fake products. He also said that many forums and news networks had secretly colluded with the Trump Mahogany Museum, and deleted a large number of questions about it. A post from the Mahogany Pavilion," Hans said.

Li Du was still frowning, and he took out a small book prepared in advance, "The Past and Present of Asian Rosewood".

Hans asked, "What's the matter?"

Li Du said: "I looked through the crack of the door and saw mahogany furniture inside, but I deduced it with family secrets and found that these warehouses are worthless."

Hans disappointed: "It's worthless?"

Li Du didn't speak to death, he said vaguely: "No, I can't see clearly, maybe I got it wrong, I have to take a closer look."

He did start to look carefully. Small flying insects were flying on the mahogany furniture, and he checked the situation closely according to the introduction in the information book.

The reason why mahogany furniture is deeply loved by the rich and nobles all over the world is because of its beautiful appearance, mostly with natural colors such as purple red, yellow red, red red or deep red.

In addition, the wood grain of mahogany is simple and beautiful, elegant and fresh, even after painting, the wood grain is still clearly visible.

Once the fake mahogany products are painted, the color will become thick and lack aura, and there will be no wood grain texture to be found.

But Li Du couldn't see this, the furniture inside was all purple, painted and waxed, so he was not an expert in mahogany, so he couldn't make a conclusion from the outside.

In fact, there is another good way to identify mahogany, and that is to measure the density. The density of mahogany is the largest among woods, even hardwoods cannot match it.

However, Li Du couldn't get in touch with these furniture, let alone measure the density.

He looked down and saw that there is a very common method of counterfeiting in mahogany counterfeiting called structural counterfeiting.

Generally speaking, mahogany furniture uses wooden tenons of the same material when making mortise and tenon structures. Tenoning and grooving are very particular, and the size must be appropriate.

When guys connect with mortise and tenon, they use nails or glue, which makes it easier to connect the furniture and increases the durability of the furniture.

For normal mahogany furniture, the use of iron nails and tax connections can also increase the durability of the structure.

But they cannot be used, because mahogany furniture is easily oxidized and corroded by iron nails, and the ability of glue to corrode mahogany is stronger. Perhaps the durability can be increased, but the life of mahogany will be greatly reduced.

Li Du slapped his forehead, how could he forget this? Wouldn't it be good to let the little flying insects get into the interior of the furniture?

Small flying insects got into the table top of a table, and then moved to the table legs.

There are no nails inside the table, but there is a thick layer of milky white crystals where the legs meet the table top, which is the trace of glue.

Seeing this, he cursed in his heart, very unlucky, he might have met a fake mahogany.

But he wasn't too disappointed. Even if it was real mahogany furniture, they couldn't miss it. The furniture was placed outside openly for everyone to see.

In addition to the glue at the joints, Li Du found that there were traces of glue on the surface of the tabletop and table legs, and the texture of the wood on the surface was different from that of the interior.

He checked the information book and saw that there is indeed such a method of counterfeiting, which is called 'skin counterfeiting'.

Fake veneering is to first make furniture out of worthless hardwood, and then paste a layer of mahogany boards on the outside.

Needless to say, the furniture is fake.

Li Du asked Xiao Fei Chong to get into the chair to look again. It was the same situation, and all the furniture in this warehouse were fakes.

This discovery made him very depressed, and it seemed that the auction was going to fail again.

However, he was careful, so he endured his impatience and arranged for the little flying insect to enter the second warehouse to check the small beds and sofas inside.

The furniture in the second warehouse is made of purple-black material. From the outside, it looks like the material of red sandalwood, thick, exquisite and grand.

Li Du felt that even if these things were fakes, it would be nice if they could be obtained at a low price, at least they looked much better than ordinary pine beds.

A small flying insect flew into a bed, and no trace of glue was found, nor was there any fake leather. The material was the same from the beginning to the end!

This discovery lifted Li Du's spirits. Is the mahogany furniture in the Trung Mahogany Pavilion real or fake? This time he met the real thing?

But what puzzled him was that the exterior color of these beds and sofas was different from the interior wood color, whiter on the outside and darker on the inside.

He checked the information book and saw another way of counterfeiting, called craft counterfeiting.

This kind of counterfeiting method is to bleach some low-priced wood into mahogany with similar appearance, which is a very high-end counterfeiting method.

You should know that the current national standard stipulates that there are 33 types of wood in five genera and eight categories in mahogany furniture, and mahogany refers to these 33 types of wood.

Nature is amazing, there are many types of wood that look similar, only they have different properties.

There are woods that look like mahogany but don't have the durability of mahogany, and others have the durability of mahogany but don't have the natural scent of mahogany.

In short, the 33 kinds of mahogany are unique, but the imitation mahogany wood is diverse.

After checking for a while, Li Du vaguely guessed that the beds and sofas in this warehouse were made of a kind of wood called 'iron knife wood', which is often used to imitate small-leaf red sandalwood after bleaching.

The situation in the third warehouse was similar to that of the second one, and it was also a fraudulent workmanship. The furniture inside was all brownish red, as if made of precious red rosewood.

In fact, after Li Du checked the internal texture and color, he judged that this thing is red rosewood imitated by bleaching and dyeing of brocade nanmu...