How can i determine if my kitchen cabinets are REAL wood.?
Question:I want to do some renovating but need to know if my cabinets are REAL wood...how can i be sure of this? they are currently painted white and i just really dont know!
Answers:
Try banging a small nail in a secluded part of the cabinet. If it won't go through, it isn't wood.
Remove a hinge and see what it under it.
lick them.
first look at the bottom, then you can see on the divisions and drill a little whole and if there is no paper coming and is only a straight whole is wood, then also you can see if by the doors there are peelings, and usually if is wood you can see as well the rings, that is part of the aging of the tree
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Let a coupleof termites loose in your cabinets. If there is a swarm of termites a week later then your cabinets are real wood. There is probably a better way of finding out put this way is much more fun. Where's my two points for answering this question?
you have to look at it at a place whrere the material is exposed. if it is made up of a bunch of filings packed in there, it is not wood. if it is made of large, solid pieces, it is wood.
Do you mean real plywood, real particle board, or real hardwood (solid)? Or plastic?
Besides taking off a hinge to look, I would suggest drilling a small (1/16th inch diameter bit) hole in the backside in a corner and see what kind of particles come out. You may need a magnifying glass.
To tell if it's solid hardwood, plywood, or particle board, you may need to drill a slightly larger hole.
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Try scrapping a little of the finish off of the bottom, or the inside of the cabinets. Don't bother doing that on the doors, many cabinets use fake wood doors and that wouldn't give you the true answer. Bye
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