Tiger Maple Hardwood

Curly maple tiger maple is traditional hard maple sugar maple rock maple hard rock maple with a soft and flowing figure.

Tiger maple hardwood.

Curly or tiger maple is highly prized for all forms of woodworking and can be purchased in 4 4 through 12 4 stock. Curly hard maple birdseye cherry ambrosia spalted maple black walnut ash torrefied roasted maple stabilized curly wood. Northwest timber specializes in highly figured hardwood lumber such as quilted maple figured claro walnut and oregon myrtlewood. Birdseye maple curly maple.

Tiger maple is an exotic hardwood with a distinctive wavy or curly pattern that can resemble tiger stripes. The pair of boards are 99 long cut 8 4 thick. 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. 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.

The term tiger maple is most often given to curly soft maple because the curly stripe in it resembles the stripe of a tiger. 1600 for the pair. Matched cherry walnut and tiger maple table tops that are kept together from the log. Curly maple fiddleback maple tiger maple flamed maple rippled maple botanical designation.

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. Not a distinct species of 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. Maple trees fall into two broad categories.

30 2 to 44 0 lbs ft 3 485 to 705 kg m 3 depending on species. Located in northern michigan we are in the center of birdseye maple country. The term tiger maple is also given to a curly maple with exceptional or heavier than the normal figure. Buy individual curly figured tiger fiddleback luthier maple and see pictures of each.

Curly maple is considered a grain pattern that can be found in nearly all acer species. The hard maple is the state tree of wisconsin vermont new york and west virginia. We regularly visit these bids to choose the best logs available. Quality hardwoods in wide widths up to 20 unsteamed black walnut.