Maple

Maple - Hard (Acersacchanumn) Bird’s-Eye Maple, Curly Maple, Fiddleback Maple, Northern Maple, Rock Maple, Sugar Maple, Black Maple (See Photos 141-142) Source: Lake States, Appalachians, Northwest United States; Canada. Color: Cream to light reddish-brown heart-wood; thin white sapwood tinged slightly with reddish-brown. Pattern: Usually straight-grained; sometimes found highly figured with curly, fiddleback, blistered, quilted, Birds Eye or burl grain, scattered over entire free or in irregular stripes and patches. Characteristics: Heavy; hard; strong; close-grained; tough; stiff; uniform texture. Excellent resis­tance to abrasion and indentation. Uses: Furniture; interiors; fixtures; flooring, woodenware; cutting surfaces; bakery pad­dles and other industrial uses; school furniture; decorative inlays and overlays. Availability: Plain maple-readily avail­able as veneer (plain sliced, half-round, full rotary); Figured maple (including bird’s-eye, Butts etc.) limited as veneer (all cutting methods used). Price range: Plain maple - average; Figured maple - valuable.