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.

Curly hard maple lumber.

All lumber is custom picked to insure wood quality the best of figure and is kiln dried 6 to 8 moisture content. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. While it is most commonly found in the softer maples it is also seen regularly in hard maples which is what we offer.

The figuring is common in many varieties of the acer genus. 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. Curly hard maple is hard maple lumber with a figure that typically runs across the width of the board. 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.