Teak or not to Teak? How to spot fake teak furniture

[@tdeseve]

Building a desk with teak legs. Nice blonde and brown color to it and funky smell. Amazing wood when you can get the real deal.

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

I live in South east Asia so it's an easy get for me, white oak on the other hand is damn near impossible

[@phildangerfield4031]

Ah, so true. Teak aint teak no more! Imagine building a boat out of the crap they are trying to flog us nowadays.

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

Sometimes when the deal is too good to be true ...

[@wavehaven1]

You know it... Good teak aint cheap...at all. Today teak is $30-$45 a board foot and the other fake teak can be alot cheaper. Good hardwoodis around $9 a board foot. Yaa def., look for the stain and grain. IDK wtf they send but its wood like Sissoo /Sheesham, Shorea, Sal, plantation teak or Grade C teak which is weak teak. If you see blonde streaks thats not good teak or its something else. When you see alot of blonde in the wood its def., not teak. Even old good brown teak aroma is awesome when sanding and cutting....

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

Lots of my jobs is giving the owners the bad news... Generally they don't believe me. Nobody wants to feel like they have been slighted, or tricked I guess. And I so agree with your comment about the smell of teak. Sanding old brown teak is the highlight of my day everytime I get to do it. Thanks for dropping a comment Be well friend

[@jeshujoseph5623]

Good

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

Thank you for those kind words. It's nice to know we are reaching people who enjoy our work

[@Automedon2]

I saw an ad on Craigslist - someone GIVING away a 'solid teak' dining table. Of course I ran over. The top was a bit marked up, but what the hell, right? The freaking thing was a teak grain printed onto fiberboard. The legs were hardwood maybe even teak, but when I started sanding the skirt, it was a printed on grain again over really low grade pine. I bet that person who gave it to e bought it as teak and believed she had a teak table all the time. Chinese fakery.

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

yea unfortunately teak now seems to be a brand name rather than a statement of fact . I constantly have customers with "teak" furniture and I have the unpleasant task of giving them the bad news, Surprisingly I'd say 40-50% of the time they don't believe me . I've long since given up trying to argue I just agree and say "yea you are right. it's my mistake" and take their money to restore their "teak" furniture... what are you going to do, right?

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

Last week I had a client bring me a red oak table she bought on marketplace. It was 1mm veneer on OSB... I told her and she got angry at me A fool and their money ....

[@AnyAssholeCanDoItCarpentry]

@@Automedon2 now any asshole can start a business called "made in denmark" and sell substandard garbage to the world... Times have changed