Treasure Hunt Tycoon

Before coming here, Li Du did his homework.

According to his understanding, the most precious Hai-Nan Huanghua pear in the rosewood and Vietnam Huanghua pear resources are almost depleted, and they are basically in a state of no value.

The small leaf rosewood has a supply of about 5,000 tons per year, and high-quality old materials with a length of more than 2 meters can sell for $ 250,000 to $ 400,000 per ton.

This price is still the price of raw materials. If it becomes furniture after polishing, the price will be even more amazing.

The huge profit space has attracted a lot of fakes to enter the industry. For example, many illegal merchants use African Zambia blood sandalwood to impersonate rosewood rosewood, and many people use Mexican concave concave rosewood and concave concave rosewood. Rosewood.

Li Du suspected that the furniture was counterfeit mahogany. At the time, the merchants held an auction here to cheat some customers.

This is the best solution to why merchants leave so many 'redwood' furniture. If they are genuine, Li Du did not believe Trang would forget to take them.

What's more, he noticed what Little Rick said when he was at the bar last night, and the other party said, `` Can you be so arrogant after watching the auction? ''

This passage can be interpreted as Rick and Son will be very promising at the auction, making them unable to photograph the warehouse. It can also be interpreted as, the other party knows that there are traps at this auction, and they need to clean up!

Hans searched the Internet and shook his head: "There isn't much about it-oh, found it, here is a post about Trang Redwood Pavilion ..."

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

"No, someone posted a complaint that he bought mahogany furniture, and was mocked by Chinese friends and said he bought fakes. He also said that multiple forums and news networks had dark collusion with Trang Redwood Museum, and a large number of questions were deleted. Redwood Pavilion post. "Hans said.

Li Du still frowned. He took out a small book prepared in advance, "The Past and Present of Asian Redwood."

Hans asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Du said: "I looked through the door slit and saw that there were mahogany furniture inside, but I deduced by family secrets and found that these warehouses were of no value."

Hans was disappointed. "No value?"

Li Du didn't say anything dead, he said vaguely: "No, I can't see clearly. Maybe I read wrong. I have to look carefully."

He did start to look carefully, and the little flying insect flew over the mahogany furniture, and looked closely at the situation according to the introduction of the information book.

The reason why mahogany furniture is loved by the rich and nobles around the world is, first of all, because of its beautiful appearance, it has many natural colors such as fuchsia, yellow-red, red, or crimson.

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

And once the fake mahogany products are painted, it will make the color thick and lack the aura, and there is no wood grain texture to find.

But Li Du could not see that the furniture inside was purple-red, lacquered and waxed, so he was not a mahogany expert, and he was afraid to make a conclusion from the appearance.

In fact, there is another good way to identify mahogany, which is to measure the density. The density of mahogany is the largest among the woods, and even hardwoods are not comparable.

However, Li Du had no access to these furniture, let alone to measure density.

He looked down and saw that in mahogany fraud, there is a very common form of fraud called structural fraud.

Normally, mahogany furniture uses tenon of the same material when making tenon-and-tenon structure. The tenon and groove are very particular and must be the right size.

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

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

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

Li Du patted his forehead, why did he forget the stubble? Wouldn't it be nice to let the little bugs get inside the furniture?

The little bug crawled into the table top of a table and moved towards the table legs.

There are no iron nails inside the table, but there is a thick layer of milky crystals where the legs of the table and the table meet. This is the trace of glue.

Seeing this, he cursed in his heart, very unlucky, he may have encountered fake mahogany.

However, he was not disappointed. Even if it was real mahogany furniture, they couldn't pick it up. The furniture was brightly placed outside and anyone could see it.

In addition to the glue at the junction, Li Du found that the surface of the table and the legs of the table also had traces of glue, and the wood texture of the surface was different from the interior.

He looked at the information book and saw that there was indeed such a method of fraud, called ‘skinny fraud’.

Fake skinning is first made of valuable hardwood furniture, and then pasted with a layer of mahogany planks, tightly bonded, no fakes can be seen from the outside.

Needless to say, these furniture are fakes.

Li Du asked Xiao Fei Zhe to get into the chair and look at it. In the same situation, all the furniture in the warehouse was fake.

This discovery made him very depressed, and it seems that this auction will return to nothing.

However, he was careful, so he couldn't bear to arrange Xiao Fei to enter the second warehouse to look at the small beds and sofas inside.

The furniture in the second warehouse has a purple-black texture ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ From the appearance, it looks like a red sandalwood texture, thick, exquisite and atmospheric.

Li Du thinks that even if these things are fakes, it would be good if they can be obtained at a low price, at least it is much better than the ordinary pine bed.

The little flying insect flew into a bed. No glue traces were found throughout the process, and no fake skin was found. From beginning to end, the material is the same!

This discovery refreshed Li Du's spirit. Does the mahogany home in Trang Redwood Pavilion have real or fake? This time he came across the real thing?

But what puzzled him a bit was that the exterior colors of the beds and sofas were not the same as the color of the wood on the inside, whiter on the outside and blacker on the inside.

He looked at the information book and saw another method of counterfeiting, called craft counterfeiting.

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

It should be known that the current national standard stipulates that the wood species of mahogany furniture are 33 species of wood in five genera and eight categories, and mahogany refers to these 33 types of wood.

Nature is amazing. There are many kinds of wood that look similar, but they are different in nature.

Some woods look like mahogany, but they don't have the durability of mahogany, and some have the durability of mahogany, but they don't have the natural aroma of mahogany.

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

After looking around for a while, Li Du vaguely guessed that the bed and sofa in this warehouse were made of a kind of wood called "iron knife wood", which was often bleached to imitate small rosewood.

The situation of the third warehouse is similar to that of the second one, and it is also a counterfeit of craftsmanship. The furniture inside is all brown-red, like the precious red rosewood material.

In fact, Li Du looked at the internal texture and color, and determined that this thing was a red rosewood that was dyed and imitated after bleaching Jinnan wood ...