Rosewood Has A Fine Structure And A Strong Performance

Rosewood is a plant of the genus Dalbergia in the subfamily Dalbergia in the legume family. It is named after its wood has a pungent sour smell after splitting. Rosewood is a collective name for a variety of woods, which are mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. Southeast Asia is the main producing area, and part of the rosewood is also distributed in vast areas of China.

The rosewood mainly consists of red rosewood and black rosewood. Generally, rosewood with "grease" is of high quality, has a fine structure, and is hard and heavy, and can sink in water.  It is particularly obvious that dark brown or black stripes are often sandwiched in deep red, which is clear and full of changes.

Red rosewood of reddish series: the new section of the heartwood is lemon red, reddish brown to purple reddish brown, often with obvious black stripes, heavy density, air-dry density 1.0 g/cm3, and the main producing area is the Indochina Peninsula. The color of the heartwood is also darker and lighter, with a lighter yellowish color and straighter texture.

The red rosewood that is common in the market has a straighter texture, with some chestnut brown stripes resembling black rosewood, which are called "green tendons" in the industry, just like the blue tendons under the skin-blood vessels. The high-quality long-term setting will darken the wood color, from dark maroon red to purple red, and the color is similar to sandalwood red sandalwood. The wood is as fine as that of Lushi black rosewood. It is the top grade of red rosewood.

Brownish red rosewood: The new section of the heartwood is purple-red-brown or dark-red-brown, often with black-brown or chestnut-brown pinstripes. It is produced in Southeast Asia. The high-quality heartwood is purple-red or dark red-brown, and the stringed surface has fish skin patterns on the belly of yellow croaker. There are also special types of texture in red rosewood. There are string sections with light-colored stripes like muscle fibers, which are slightly like wenge "V"-shaped texture; there are also string sections with distorted and exaggerated and gorgeous patterns.