How to identify natural wood veneer?

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When you purchase natural wood veneer for your home furniture and hotel project, which are basically a very tough job.  There are a lot of natural wood veneers and artificial veneer which are marked into different grade as the defects, it is very difficult to find out natural veneers without any defects. So, here we are to help you choose the best and natural veneer when you purchase. You need to consider a few things when you look out for natural veneers in the market. Those things are as follows.



2. Check out the grain pattern of wood

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You must know that ideal veneers are sliced into thin sheets of wood peeled off from one round timber logs. So, the grain pattern of the tree remains ingrained on the veneer. If you find that the grain pattern, color and width, length are all uniform on the veneer, it can be assumed that it is natural. If the pattern is either not uniform, or too perfect to be possible, there remains a chance that the veneer is synthetically manufactured. So, before you purchase, you should check out how the grain pattern remains ingrained on wood veneer sheets.


3. Check out the odour of wood veneers -

Natural wood veneers wood has a distinct smell. To identify that smell, you need to be well acquainted with natural veneers. So, we would advise you to take someone with you while shopping for veneer sheets, who has got an expertise in this regard. Manufactures try to imitate the odour on artificial veneers, but an expert can definitely tell the difference.

4. Check out the hardness -

Natural wood veneers are hard and tough. So, when you go for shopping for veneer sheets, you need to knock on the sheets and assess the hardness. However, you should remember that different types of veneer wood display different degrees of hardness. For example, teak veneer is too hard compared to other types of veneers. In this case too, you should take an expert along with you. Nowadays, the duplicate veneers, which are manufactured synthetically are also being made as hard as natural veneer. However, you can differentiate between a natural veneer and an artificial veneer by knocking on the sheet. You would be able to differentiate between the two sounds of knocking quite vividly.

5. Rely on branded products -

If the aforementioned tips to identify a good quality natural veneer from among artificial veneers seem very difficult for you, we would advise you to always go to leading companies who are selling wood veneers. You can rely on these companies  who have earned a trust in the market. Today, there are a few brands marketing veneer sheets which also operate online. You can directly order veneers as per your requirement from their websites. These online operating brands can be relied completely as they would not take the risk of negative publicity.