Maple, Bird’s Eye & Hard Curl

Hard white Northern Maple is Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), which has the hardest and whitest sapwood of the Maple family. It has a brown heartwood, which is seen in the mill run that we saw in our mill, and less in evidence in the wood that has been sorted as FAS.

It is straight grained with a fine and uniform texture. It turns well on a lathe and machines well. It is heavy strong, stiff, resistant to shock and very hard.

The wood is resistant to abrasion and is often used in cutting boards and was used in old wooden butcher blocks. It is the only wood that purportedly contains an enzyme which aids in the elimination of food bacteria.

Figuring occurs in hard maple and may be described as birds-eye, curly, tiger, or fiddleback.

Hard maple is used in flooring, furniture, cabinets, cutting boards and butcher blocks, pianos, billiard cues, handles, bowling alleys, dance and gym floors, spools, and bobbins.

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