It is fairly soft, unlike Rock/Sugar maple here in the East.Exotic Wood Species Acacia African Blackwood African Mahogany Afrormosia Afzelia Burl Amazon Rosewood Amboyna Burl Ambrosia Maple Angelim Pedra Anigre Aspen Bark Pocket Maple Basswood Birch Birdseye Maple Black & White Ebony Black Palm Bloodwood Bocote Bolivian Rosewood Brazilian Ebony Brown Ebony Brown Mallee Burl Bubinga Buckeye Burl Butternut Camatillo Canarywood Chakte Viga Chechen Cherry Cherry Burl Cocobolo Cumaru Curly Cherry Curly Hard Maple Curly Narra Curly Oak Curly Pyinma Curly Soft Maple Curly Western Maple Curly White Ash E. Brush against it, and you're bleeding.īigleaf maple, almost without a doubt - have used it on a few occasions and appears identical to what you have. About the sharp point comment, I have some Siberian elm burl with the bark taken off. A brighter light for the photo would confirm that. If it is maple I am going to see about buying it in veneer. Western Maple, sometimes called big leaf maple, broadleaf maple, or white maple is. Sure looks like Carpathian elm burl to me and we use a lot of the veneer. Going against the grain is literally what gives Flame Maple its beautiful perpendicular, undulating, almost iridescent stripes. LATIN: ACER MACROPHYLLUM ORIGIN: NORTH AMERICA. Note: our wood products are sold with no guarantee of moisture content. It just so happens after 37 years in America with an Italian passport and a greencard (since I was 4) I finally became a citizen. Big Leaf Maple (Curly Figure) (representative sample). They do need something like a 1" square, but they can reliably identify domestic species every time.
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Don’t see how that is possible, but hey?įorest Products Laboratory is run by Dept of Agriculture and has free wood ID service (if you are US Citizen). What do you think it’s worth? I seem to remember that there is a place where you can send wood samples to and they will scientifically identify it for you. This broadens maple’s tonal range from a single-dimension sound to a more musical, more versatile voice.
I will make him something for the gesture (he doesn’t need the money). Overview: Maple has long been associated with a bright acoustic sound, but Taylor’s maple guitars are voiced to bring out greater warmth, richness and sustain. To the original questioner: So what did you pay for the beautiful Birdseye Maple slab?Ī friend gave it to me after I asked if I could buy it from him. We've got a bunch of it in our shop and it's identical to the picture. I've never run across another burl wood that looks like it in my forty years of woodworking.Ĭontributor A is right, it is Big Leaf maple burl it's pretty unmistakable. I've been working with this material for the past twenty years and have close to 100 pieces of it slabs, blocks, and whole burls stashed around my shop. It is bigleaf maple burl from the Northern California to Washington area of the west coast (also known as West Coast maple). Carpathian elm burl looks similar but is typically seen in veneers. Birdseye certainly can occur in most species but seems fairly common in maple, redwood and pine and oak to name a few. They each pretty much co-relate to a birdseye figure. Those thorns and spikes are a way to identify birdseye grain patterns in trees and logs. Other Common Names: Big Leaf Maple, Oregon Maple, Northwest Maple, Red Maple, Western Maple.
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