Best buy for quality and durability, Dixon Ticonderoga; sadly no longer made here; a satisfactory substitute: General Pencil.
Posted on 10/27/2016 9:26:24 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The commission tested 59 sets of furniture, advertised as being made of high quality wood, and found 46 percent had been sold under false pretences. The furniture tested was bought by consumers who suspected they had been conned.
One of them bought four pieces of “rosewood” furniture for 47,000 yuan (US$7,014) from the Guangzhong Road outlet of Shanghai Wubo Business and Trade Co last June.
The furniture started cracking soon after. The “rosewood” turned out to be vene wood according to the commission’s tests. The market price of vene wood is about 8,000 yuan per ton, compared with 100,000 yuan for rosewood.
Another of the consumers paid 27,500 yuan for seven pieces of “rosewood” furniture made by Shanghai Jinxuan Furniture Co. In this case, mopane was used, which has a market price of 8,000 yuan per ton.
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You have to have a test for this? Anyone with any sense can look at it and see the poor quality.
This is one of the reasons when Freepers go off about a war with China I think, not if their weapons and equipment are made in China and maintained with Chinese tools. I can’t fix their products with their tools.
They are pretty good at building railroads, at least in this country.
Chinese furniture manufacturers are committing fraud. Shocked! I am shocked! NOT!
Hard to believe they buy their own tools.
Wonder what they will pay for good furniture.
We used to make it HERE
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/furniture-making-in-america-hi-152371
Mr. niteowl77
Military advisors are concerned about Chinese electronics, especially with embedded code.
As the military uses more and more electronics, they have come to rely on questionable appliances; even the chips are made in China.
I think we saw a week ago (10/22/16) how vulnerable many home electronics are to an unsecured internet connection, and that was demonstrated by a Chinese company.
Chinese made may be cheaper , but are not as reliable as the old "Made in Japan" items.
Pretty bad tools but not as bad as that stuff out of India.
Case in point, pencils, simple writing pencils made in China. Crap.
My mother collected antique pottery & glass. She shied away from *Nippon* marks her whole life, considering them inferior in quality.
**The case of Nippon or Japanese Porcelain marks is a bit more peculiar. The word “NIPPON” is the official name of the country of Japan and Japanese makers and trading companies initially marked their porcelain with the name Nippon. However, in 1921, the US Congress requested that Japanese Customs Authorities change the name to JAPAN. Therefore, Porcelain and China antiques that are marked “NIPPON” were made prior to 1921 and items that are marked “JAPAN” were made after 1921. Furthermore, most Porcelain and Chinaware imports from Japan were rarely marked with the actual manufacturer’s mark. Instead, they used the Exporter or Trading Company’s logo. Noritake is one of the most famous examples of this practice since they used nearly 400 independent porcelain factories to make items for them, either to order or selected from a catalogue. The same is true of all other major companies from Japan, each using different porcelain marks to distinguish their products or different periods of operation. In essence, when a porcelain mark reads “Japan” or “Nippon”, and other than the period distinction mentioned above, the item was made by one of several hundreds of porcelain factories and was imported to the US and Europe by the trading company whose logo or backstamp is shown. Most Japanese porcelain marks are stamped or on a label.**
http://www.marks4antiques.com/Porcelain_marks_pottery_antiques.htm
Interesting you should bring that up, because I recently had a laughable experience with a pencil whose lead was seemingly pre-broken for its entire length. "Bonded"… ri-i-i-i-ight. Sure enough, it was made in China.
I know that the Chinese can produce beautifully-made items, but in every case that I personally have knowledge of, the price of the product is as high - or close to it - as it would be if made in the USA or elsewhere.
Mr. niteowl77
An experienced woodworker looks underneath. Whenever we need a new piece of furniture, we either go to the antique shops or make it ourselves.
Best buy for quality and durability, Dixon Ticonderoga; sadly no longer made here; a satisfactory substitute: General Pencil.
Suggest to your friend with the failed wood that he use a product called Git-Rot.
It is a pent rating (low viscocity) epoxy which generally works ad advertised.
Suggest to your friend with the failed wood that he use a product called Git-Rot.
It is a pent rating (low viscocity) epoxy which generally works ad advertised.
China products are often cheap and shoddy
I can just imagine all those container ships sitting offshore awaiting for the one in front to be inspected and more than likely rejected.
Interesting fact that just happened to me, last june i bought at auction for $850 an inoperative 66kw 3 phase generator, new they are $66,000. Went through it, John Deere diesel runs great, the genset after i dug into it has a faulty diode plate, 2 of the six exciter diodes were bad.
I call up an electrical repair shop, he says the part is $462.00, i found the EXACT same part from China and bought it for $32.30, and thought it “might” work the problem is the expensive one probably came from the same place and is marked up.
Nobody makes it in America though you can buy just the unsoldered diodes and solder them in.
We need to bring back the manufacturing jobs in America, make it HERE. Reason it costs so much is EPA and other regulations and penalties brought on to kill the American production.
Abd it started with the Clintons.
Doesn’t much matter. Hillary will initiate WWiV with Russia, We, and the Russian people will end up living in radioactive caves, and the Chinese will rule the World!
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