thanks for tasking the time to share your "wood world", with the rest of us! the most wide-spread maple species (N. American, + world-wide), is what is called "Manitoba maple/Box-elder/Ash-leaf maple" (Acer negundo), which grows as far as Australia and Hawaii!..."soft maple" is mostly red maple (A. rubrum) and silver maple (A. sacharinum), the woods of which are almost impossible to distinguish from each other, once lumbered... "hard maple" is also a "grouping" of sugar maple (A. sacharum) and black maple (A. nigra)...."soft" maple, though not as desirable "color-wise" (slighly duller), has the advantages of producing a greater % of figured material (- "birds-eye", - "quilt"), per species/per log, and a greater stability rating, over "hard maple".....my suspicion, is that many of the '58-'60 "bursts", were soft maple.....
The depth of figure varies tree by tree-Anywhere from superficial figure only going in an inch or two all the way to trees that produce figure all the way through the heartwood
@@kimball_hardwoods - Thankyou so much for sharing all this valuable knowledge sir👍🏼👍🏼 if…I ever come across logs like these - I’ll have them Plain Sawn instead.
We don’t. I have a couple of logs out in the yard but the wood is soft and if it’s not crazy flame patterns and colors it just doesn’t sell. The best box elder I’ve seen is coming out of the Ohio valley region not here in the northeast
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thanks for tasking the time to share your "wood world", with the rest of us! the most wide-spread maple species (N. American, + world-wide), is what is called "Manitoba maple/Box-elder/Ash-leaf maple" (Acer negundo), which grows as far as Australia and Hawaii!..."soft maple" is mostly red maple (A. rubrum) and silver maple (A. sacharinum), the woods of which are almost impossible to distinguish from each other, once lumbered... "hard maple" is also a "grouping" of sugar maple (A. sacharum) and black maple (A. nigra)...."soft" maple, though not as desirable "color-wise" (slighly duller), has the advantages of producing a greater % of figured material (- "birds-eye", - "quilt"), per species/per log, and a greater stability rating, over "hard maple".....my suspicion, is that many of the '58-'60 "bursts", were soft maple.....
Hi, Great Tutorial. So - is it kinda safe to say - the “figure” only a few inches, then it’s just plane Heartwood? Thankyou
The depth of figure varies tree by tree-Anywhere from superficial figure only going in an inch or two all the way to trees that produce figure all the way through the heartwood
@@kimball_hardwoods - Thankyou so much for sharing all this valuable knowledge sir👍🏼👍🏼 if…I ever come across logs like these - I’ll have them Plain Sawn instead.
Do you carry any box elder?
We don’t. I have a couple of logs out in the yard but the wood is soft and if it’s not crazy flame patterns and colors it just doesn’t sell. The best box elder I’ve seen is coming out of the Ohio valley region not here in the northeast