The texture of Indonesian ebony is light stripes and grayish brown or light red. If the sample is put in water, dark brown pigment will appear, and if it is put in alcohol, dark brown pigment will also appear. The smell of wood is very light, just a little dry. When you lick it with the tip of your tongue, wood has no taste. Draw a little hard on the white paper and you will see brown stripes. Soaking in alcohol, plumes of dark brown pigment will appear immediately, and these pigments will not disperse in a short time, which is very clear.
Ebony beads are woody and shiny. The texture is slightly staggered, the structure is thin and uniform, the quality is heavy and hard, the strength is high, and the shrinkage is large. Good adhesion and paint performance, slight corrosion resistance, slow drying and good performance. Tan, Sanskrit means giving.
Because its wood is firm and hard, its fragrance is eternal, its color is colorful and changeable, it is harmless and immortal, and it can ward off evil spirits and diseases, so it is also called holy sandalwood. There are only a few varieties of sandalwood in the world, and the number of sandalwood, sandalwood, sandalwood, rosewood, ebony and rosewood is extremely limited. People often use it as a mascot to protect Anji Xiang.
Extended information: Introduction to Ebony:
1. ebony, persimmon, commonly known as windmill wood. Alias: ebony, ebony. Big tree, 45 meters high and 2.5 meters in diameter; Big root; Small grooves common on the surface of wood. There are 15 species in this genus.
2. The sapwood of ebony is obviously different, and the sapwood is white to light reddish brown; Heartwood black and irregular black heartwood. The wood is shiny and has no special smell.
3. This species is often imported from Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. There are obvious differences in heartwood in cross section. Heartwood is painted black or dark brown. The sapwood is almost white. The rings are not obvious. Slightly shiny; Textures are staggered; The structure is very thin; Very hard; High strength; The shrinkage is great. Difficult to machine, containing silicon dioxide, dull tools and smooth section. Good adhesion and polishing performance. The nail must be driven first. Very resistant to decay. Slow drying and easy to crack.
4. The so-called "ebony" is not a scientific name, but a common name for merchants to drive up prices in the market. Wang, an expert on furniture research in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, told reporters that the reason why merchants like to label furniture base materials with nonexistent tree names such as ebony and rosewood is because the names of ebony, black rosewood and rosewood are close to some mahogany names in the industry, which makes people associate with each other, thus raising the value of furniture, which is suspected of "scratching the ball".
5. Trees and their distribution: small trees with many branches, with a height of 4 ~ 6m and a DBH of 0.2m They usually have defects such as cavities, deep ditches, bending and twisting, and some of them are covered with tree tumors. The end face of the trunk is wavy. This genus is about 120 species, distributed in tropical regions of the world. This species is often imported from Tanzania and Mozambique in Africa, and is generally a small log with a length of about L meters, with extremely low yield.
6. The bark is 0.3 ~ 0.5 cm thick, hard and easy to peel off. The skin is yellow and white, with irregular shallow longitudinal cracks, small flakes falling off and small black spots and lenticels. Endothelium reddish brown; The bast fibers are well developed and can be layered. The heartwood in the cross section is obviously different, and the heartwood is dark purple-brown to nearly black with black stripes. The sapwood is narrow, about 2.0cm, light yellow. On growth ring.
7. The tube holes under the magnifying glass are obvious, and the number is small but slightly small, mainly single tube holes, with a small number of radial multi-tube holes (2 ~ 3); Rich in dark brown gum and exudate. Under the magnifying glass, axial parenchyma can be seen, which is developed, mainly in the shape of chordwise thin lines (wavy, closely arranged), and some of them are annular, short-winged and multi-winged. Visible under the wooden ray magnifying glass, dense and narrow.
8. Wood has weak luster, wet wood acid and slight oil. Straight texture; Thin and uniform structure; Very hard; Extremely high strength; The shrinkage is small. The planing saw is difficult to process, and it is easy to be blunt when sawing, but the section is smooth and delicate. Nails need to be punched first. Very resistant to decay. Slow drying and easy to crack. Air drying density1.32g/cm3.
9. Wood is used for sculptures, handicrafts, mahogany furniture, inlaid ornaments, chess pieces, brush sticks, handles, crutches and woodwind instruments. The material is better than ebony. The endothelium is arranged in yellow, white and dark brown layers. Logs have many defects, such as cavities, bends, deep grooves, tree tumors and so on. The heartwood is dark purple-brown with black stripes. The material is hard, the structure is thin, and it is submerged. Wave marks can be seen on the chord surface.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia Ebony