What are grades of teak?
Grade A teakwood is extracted from the center of the tree. Grade A teak is produced from a tree between 30 and 50 years of age. Its characteristics include a close grain, warm honey color, richness in oils, and free of knots. This type of wood is typically found only in machine-made teak furniture, because the risk in allowing a person of limited skill to work with this expensive, high quality wood only to produce mediocre results is too great. Machine-made teak contains parts that are precise and inter operable. This means that if a part on your chair or table were to need replacement, you could easily get one. This type of teak is also kiln-dried, a process that can take months. The expense of this process often causes it to be ignored by manufacturers of cheap garden furniture. Furniture that is not made from kiln-dried teak can quickly begin to warp and split when left outside and can ultimately cause the furniture to fail altogether. Hildreth’s carries Grade A teak furniture.
