Curly Hard Maple Lumber

For over 50 years we ve been offering superior custom selected kiln dried figured hardwoods such as curly maple curly cherry curly red oak curly yellow birch etc.

Curly hard maple lumber.

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. All lumber is custom picked to insure wood quality the best of figure and is kiln dried 6 to 8 moisture content. The figuring is common in many varieties of the acer genus. 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 maple or tiger maple so called for its abundant tiger stripe figuring is also not a specific species of maple. 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 figuring is similar to quilted maple but curl is a primarily horizontal pattern perpendicular to the wood grain. Curly maple tiger maple is traditional hard maple sugar maple rock maple hard rock maple with a soft and flowing figure.

While it is most commonly found in the softer maples it is also seen regularly in hard maples which is what we offer. 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 hard maple is the state tree of wisconsin vermont new york and west virginia.