Most people have such a mentality when buying furniture: all solid wood is relatively high-end!

For this view, I can only say that it is superficial! Because the real high-end solid wood furniture not only requires the material to be pure solid wood, and does not use a nail in the production process, but uses a tenon-and-mortise structure to fix the furniture frame.

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What is tenon and tenon

Tenon and mortise is the main structural method of ancient buildings, furniture and other instruments.The combination of concave and convex parts is used to link and strengthen the two parts. The protruding part is called tenon and the concave part is called mortise.

 As long as the tenon and mortise are used properly, the two pieces of wood can be tightly coupled together to achieve a "seamless" level, which is also an important criterion for the quality of the carpenter's craftsmanship.

In modern society, the use of mortise and tenon joints has become less and less, especially in construction, high-rise buildings are no longer suitable for fixing with tenon joints and joints. In the field of furniture, only some solid wood furniture still uses mortise and tenon structure, and more of them are inheriting history and art.

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What are the types of tenon and mortise

Tenon and mortise is a structure, there are dozens of different types, classified according to structure and function, can be roughly divided into three types:

One type is a fixed "face-to-face" structure. Such as "groove tenon", "groove tenon", "dovetail tenon", "wearing tenon", "tie tenon" and so on.

Another category is the structure of fixed "points". Such as "grid shoulder tenon", "double tenon", "double clip tenon", "hook-hang tenon", "screw tenon", "half tenon", "through tenon" and so on.

There is also a structure that combines three components together, in which the tenon and tenon are more complicated. Such as "support angle tenon", "long and short tenon", "shoulder tenon", "zongjiao tenon" and so on.

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Why is it very high-end to use tenon and tenon to fix furniture?

As a traditional furniture structure, tenon and tenon joints have high requirements on wood. Only pure solid wood furniture with high hardness is suitable for fixing with tenon joints and tenon joints. Other man-made boards are not suitable for use. That is to say, you can judge whether the furniture is pure solid wood or whether it is wood from whether it uses a tenon-and-mortise structure.

On the other hand, the tenon-and-mortise structure requires very high craftsmanship. It is said that a woodworker with exquisite craftsmanship will take half a day to make a set of mortise and tenon, and the monthly salary of this woodworker is about 2W. Even if the tenon and tenon joints are machined, there are dozens of machine tools. Therefore, if the merchant still insists on using the tenon-and-mortise structure, it will inevitably increase his production cost.

In today's fast-moving market, there are fewer and fewer manufacturers willing to spend such a large cost and energy to make furniture. Only some high-end brands that pursue quality and craftsmanship will adopt the tenon-and-mortise structure at all costs.

So, if someone will show off how high-end their solid wood furniture is in the future, let's take a look at the nails used in those solid wood furniture or tenon and mortise.

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