Making sense of teak wood grades

With all the online stores and retail outlets making claims about the quality of their teak wood used to make their teak furniture products.. How do you know how to determine if what you are paying for is really the grade generally accepted as ‘A’ grade Teak, or ‘B’ or ‘C’ grade teak? We have found outline below to be a very useful guide with respect to the quality and look & feel of the teak wood on teak furniture items you purchase.

Select: Grade ‘A’
No sap wood
No knot (live nor dead)
No black nature grain
Uniform in color
Uniform in grain (quarter cut)
No mirror (when the sun goes on wood, it will shine, on oak it like a shiny tiger mark).
No water grain
No pin hole
Zero defect

Nature: Grade ‘A’ or ‘B’
No sap wood
No knot (live is allowed 5%)
black nature grain is allowed
Uniform in color
Good grain (combination)
Small mirror is permitted.
Little water grain
No pin hole

Rustic: Grade ‘C’ sap wood
Generally, it is the lowest grade, on teak sometime factories uses chemical to manipulate it to look like ‘B’ ‘C’ grade.
Darker wood, grain is very clear and usually dark as well.

We hope you find this guide for buying Teak furniture products very useful. We have found this to be a very useful and objective tool for evaluating teak furniture products.

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