Tiger Maple Hardwood

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Tiger maple hardwood.

Maple trees fall into two broad categories. The tiger maples boards below are ghh set 85. Also known as curly maple or flame maple tiger maple s durability and its array of patterns make the wood a popular with woodworkers who want to design a unique decorative piece of furniture. Curly maple fiddleback maple tiger maple flamed maple rippled maple botanical designation.

Matched cherry walnut and tiger maple table tops that are kept together from the log. Curly or tiger maple is highly prized for all forms of woodworking and can be purchased in 4 4 through 12 4 stock. The hard maple is the state tree of wisconsin vermont new york and west virginia. Northwest timber specializes in highly figured hardwood lumber such as quilted maple figured claro walnut and oregon myrtlewood.

Each week local loggers harvest birdseye maple and curly maple tiger maple trees and bring them to area log bids. Tiger maple matched sets of lumber at good hope hardwoods please left click to enlarge small photos we stock tiger maple in 4 4 tiger maple5 4 tiger maple6 4 tiger maple8 4 tiger maple12 4 tiger maple16 4 tiger maple20 4 tiger maple. Curly hard maple birdseye cherry ambrosia spalted maple black walnut ash torrefied roasted maple stabilized curly wood. 30 2 to 44 0 lbs ft 3 485 to 705 kg m 3 depending on species.

The pair of boards are 99 long cut 8 4 thick. Curly maple tiger maple is traditional hard maple sugar maple rock maple hard rock maple with a soft and flowing figure. The term tiger maple is most often given to curly soft maple because the curly stripe in it resembles the stripe of a tiger. Tiger maple is an exotic hardwood with a distinctive wavy or curly pattern that can resemble tiger stripes.

Buy individual curly figured tiger fiddleback luthier maple and see pictures of each. The term tiger maple is also given to a curly maple with exceptional or heavier than the normal figure. Birdseye maple curly maple. The best description i can come up with is that the growth of the wood fibers is distorted to produce various types of figure that are independent of the wood grain itself.

Tiger curly or figured maple is an aberration that occurs in all the species of maple on an irregular and unpredictable basis and changes a good utilitarian hardwood into one of our true domestic exotics. Primarily temperate regions in the northern hemisphere average dried weight. Not a distinct species of maple. Located in northern michigan we are in the center of birdseye maple country.