various pictures of wood identified only as maple and which I am unable to put into any of the other maple categories
my samples:
both sides of a sample plank of vine maple
end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above
silver maple sample plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
maple, most likely hard (sugar) maple, that was recovered from the Platte River in northwestern Michigan after having been on the bottom for about 100 years. It was recovered by a correspondant who tells me that it is technically illegal to salvage logs from Michigan rivers because the Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) prohibits anything from being taken from a waterway, especially a fishery. Notice the nice tight grain on this piece, as shown in the end grain pics below.
side grain and side grain closeup of the salvaged piece directly above
end grain and end grain closeup of the salvaged piece directly above
red maple sample plank, both sides
end grain and end grain closeup of the piece directly above
red maple plank and closeup. Plank has light curl along one edge
curly red maple plank and closeup --- nice color variety, but also some ugly gray mineral stain
curly red maple plank with some spalting and a closeup of the spalted section
curly red maple plank and closeup --- this one is REALLY rife with ugly gray mineral stain
another curly red maple plank with heavy mineral stain
curly red maple plank and end grain
end grain closeup of the piece directly above
curly red maple planks
curly red maple planks
fiddleback veneer --- this is hard maple, I just need to move the picture over to the right page; the confusion stemmed from the fact that this was labled "Sycamore" (which IS its common name in England)
fiddleback red maple veneer
a sheet of red maple veneer and a closeup from it --- despite the name, the white color is accurate, although I'm not familiar enough with the species to know how representative that color is.
wormy maple veneer sheet and closeup
more wormy veneer
small burl block
same small burl block as above but moistened with water, which clearly makes a substantial difference in the color and beauty of the piece
burl veneer matched pairs
burl veneer matched pair with a monkey-face shown clearly
burl veneer sheet and closeup
"Patagonian" maple flooring sample donated by Dale Romain (thanks, Dale) --- I haven't yet attempted to find what this might be a synonym for, if anything. I think it might just mean "South American". I've rough sanded this piece and the scratches are still very visible but both the side grain and the end grain show up very nicely in the enlargements.
web pics
both sides of a burl section
cluster burl veneer
angel step cluster veneer
crotch
figured
listed as "tiger" maple, which is what some vendors call fiddleback or strong curl pieces
figured bookmatched
figured veneer
flat cut figured veneer
raisin veneer
crotch veneer
russian maple
soft maple planks
soft maple veneer
sugar maple
tiger stripe veneer --- some vendors call fiddleback figure "tiger"
western maple burl veneer
western fiddleback veneer
fiddleback veneer
western maple veneer
curly white maple
quilted white maple
listed as "flamed" red heart plank
red heart planks
red maple
red maple burl
curly red maple (this has to be sapwood if it really is red maple)
rotary cut American maple veneer
American maple veneer
burl veneer
bookmatched burl veneer all from the same vendor
bookmatched angel step veneer sheets
angel step veneer sheets
pomelle veneer
sonoma maple burl
pacific coast maple
figured Oregon maple
wormy maple plank
wormy curly maple planks, more or less bookmatched
wormy maple veneer
wormy red maple veneer --- the 2nd pic was listed as "variagated red" veneer
soft maple burl
blistered western maple veneer
listed as "crown" maple
the maple in this little section was listed as "Eastern", a designation that I do not find in any reference works.
listed as quartersawn curly "Eastern rock" maple and looks to me to be red maple
listed as curly "Eastern" veneer
curly red maple planks
curly red maple plank dry and a closeup moistened
curly red maple plank and closeup
bookmatched pair of curly red maple planks
red maple
bird's eye red maple plank and closeup
red maple burl veneer
red maple bowl blank
these are all from the BogusColorVendor. I seriously doubt that the actual wood has much or any of the red shown here. This is typical of the misrepresentation of this vendor.
figured maple
spalted piece with cluster burl
burl plank and a figured plank
platter and bowl made from maple burl
bowl made from red maple burl --- the brilliance of the color seems unlikely, but I cannot say for sure that it is incorrect.
maple burl guitar set
boomerang made from figured maple
cooking spoon made from "vine maple" by correspondant William Brooke in Beautiful Mt. Lehman, B.C. (I say that somewhat tongue in cheek because I have never been to B.C., but william says it is so and who am I to argue). William has provided me with consideable information on vine maple and I will post that when I get his sending of a direct sample of the wood, which he is drying right now. As he points out, the wood appears to have a slighly translucent quality at the transition point between early and late growth.
the bottom of a laminated bowl, with two sections of curly red maple. The pic was taken after the application of one coat of natural stain, and the bottom view shows up the curly red maple to better effect that the pic of the top view. The wood between the two pieces is padauk and behind that is wenge and white limba.
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