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According to his understanding, the most precious of the rosewoods, Hai-Nan Huanghua pear and Vietnam Huanghua pear resources, are almost exhausted, and they are basically in a state of price and no market.

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

And this price is still the price of raw materials, if it becomes furniture after carving and polishing, the price is even more amazing.

The huge profit margins have attracted a large number of fakes into the industry, for example, there are many unscrupulous merchants who use African Zambian blood sandalwood to pass off as small-leaved red sandalwood, and many people use Mexican slightly concave sandalwood and slightly concave sandalwood to color and paint and imitate Laotian red sour branches.

Li Du suspected that the furniture was counterfeit mahogany, and the merchant held an auction here to deceive some customers, and after making a profit, he ran away.

This best solves the problem of why the merchant left so much 'mahogany' furniture, and if they were genuine, Li Du did not believe that the Tran Company would forget to take them.

Also, he noticed what little Rick said last night at the bar, and he said, 'You can still be so arrogant after the auction.'"

This passage can be interpreted to mean that the Rick father and son will have a lot to do at auction, so that they will not be able to auction the warehouse. It can also be interpreted as saying that the other party knows that there are traps in this auction and wants to clean them up!

Hans searched the Internet and shook his head, "There's not much about- oh, I found it, here's a post related to the Tran Redwood Pavilion......"

Li Du asked, "Is it a news report?" ”

"No, someone posted a complaint that he bought mahogany furniture, and then he was ridiculed by Chinese friends that he bought a fake. It was also said that multiple forums and news networks had dark collusion with the Terang Mahogany Pavilion, and a large number of posts about questioning the Mahogany Pavilion were deleted. Hans said.

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

Hans asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Du said: "I looked through the crack in the door and saw that there was mahogany furniture inside, but I deduced it with the secret technique of the family and found that these warehouses were of no value. ”

Hans was disappointed: "Worthless? ”

Li Du didn't say anything, he said vaguely: "No, I can't see it clearly, maybe I was wrong, I have to take a closer look." ”

He did begin to look closely, and the little flying insect flew on the mahogany furniture, taking a closer look at the situation according to the introduction of the reference book.

The reason why mahogany furniture is deeply loved by the world's wealthy and aristocratic people is first of all because of its beautiful appearance, with many natural colors such as purple, yellow-red, crimson or crimson.

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

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

But Li Du couldn't see this, the furniture inside was purple-red, painted and waxed, so he was not a mahogany expert, and he didn't dare to make a conclusion from the appearance.

In fact, there is a good way to identify mahogany, that is, to measure the density, the density of mahogany is the largest in wood, even hardwood can not be compared.

However, Li Du couldn't get his hands on the furniture, let alone measure the density.

He looked down and saw that among the mahogany frauds, there was a very common type of fraud called structural fraud.

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

When the guys are joining the mortise and tenon joints, they will use iron nails or glue, which is 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 the durability of the structure.

However, they cannot be used, because mahogany furniture is easy to be oxidized and corroded by iron nails, and the glue has a stronger ability to corrode mahogany, 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 stubble? Wouldn't it be nice to let the little flying insects get into the furniture?

The little flying insect burrows into the top of a table and moves towards the legs.

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

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

However, he was not too disappointed, even if it was real mahogany furniture, they could not pick up the leak, and the furniture was placed outside in the open, and anyone could see it.

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

He checked the information book and saw that there was indeed this kind of fraud, which was called 'skin fraud'.

Veneer counterfeiting is to first make furniture from worthless hardwood, and then paste a layer of mahogany wood on the outside, and after gluing it tightly, it is not visible from the outside.

Needless to say, the furniture is a fake.

Li Du asked the little flying insect to get into the chair again and take a look, in the same situation, all the furniture in this warehouse was fake.

This discovery made him very depressed, and it seemed that the auction was about to come to naught.

However, he was careful, so he couldn't bear to arrange for the little flying insect to enter the second warehouse and check the few small beds and sofas inside.

The furniture in the second warehouse is purple and black, and from the outside, it looks like a red sandalwood texture, which is heavy, delicate and atmospheric.

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

The little flying insect flew into a bed, and no traces of glue were found in the whole process, and no skin fraud was found.

This discovery lifted Li Du's spirits, could it be that the mahogany family in the Terrang Mahogany Pavilion is real or fake? This time he ran into the real thing?

However, he was a little puzzled by the fact that the exterior color of these beds and sofas was not the same as the wood color on the inside, white on the outside and black on the inside.

He looked at the information book and saw another way of counterfeiting, which was called craft fraud.

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

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

Nature is amazing, there are many kinds of wood that are similar in appearance, but their properties are different.

Some woods have the appearance of mahogany, but they don't have the durability of mahogany, and some have the durability of mahogany, but they don't have the natural scent of mahogany.

In conclusion, all 33 types of mahogany are unique, while imitation mahogany woods are diverse.

After Li Du checked for a while, he 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 the small leaf red sandalwood after bleaching.

The situation in the third warehouse is similar to that of the second one, which is also a fraud in craftsmanship, and the furniture inside is all brown and red, like precious red acid branches.

In fact, after Li Du checked the internal texture and color, he judged that this thing was a red acid branch that was dyed and traced after the bleaching of Jinnan wood......