Curly Hard Maple Lumber

Curly maple hard maple overview.

Curly hard maple lumber.

Curly maple or tiger maple so called for its abundant tiger stripe figuring is also not a specific species of maple. Unlike quilted maple curly maple is most pronounced when the board is quartersawn and the curls usually become much less pronounced or absent in flatsawn sections of boards. Curly hard maple has a tight sporadic curl most of the time but the figure in each board can vary making this a unique one of a kind lumber. It is not completely clear what environmental conditions if any cause this phenomenon but there are different grades of curly maple which greatly affect its price.

Our curly maple lumber and curly hard maple lumber are both available in random widths and lengths as well as wide book matched and sets from the same log for consistent color and figure throughout. The figuring is common in many varieties of the acer genus. Curly maple also referred to as sugar maple rock maple quilted maple and hard rock maple is a beautiful wood for any woodworking project that has a soft and flowing figure that many woodworkers seek and curly maple has been a favorite among furniture makers in america since the early. Curly maple tiger maple is traditional hard maple sugar maple rock maple hard rock maple with a soft and flowing figure.

Curly hard maple is hard maple lumber with a figure that typically runs across the width of the board. In the north during the cold nights and warm days of late winter the sugar maple is tapped for its sucrose containing sap the source of maple syrup. While it is most commonly found in the softer maples it is also seen regularly in hard maples which is what we offer. All lumber is custom picked to insure wood quality the best of figure and is kiln dried 6 to 8 moisture content.