by Some of the Maple I've come across over the years has crazy figure and me being me, picked it up (ordinary Tiger stripe/Flamed is so yesterday
). This plank, which I got from a retiring cabinet maker a few years back, is supposed to be Red Maple (Acer Rubrum), It's very plentiful in the Eastern USA and into South Eastern Canada but this is the first time I've had an opportunity to work with it...and I really like it. In the raw it's a little pinkish not creamy or whiteish like Big leaf or European. I find it falls between Big leaf and European in terms of hardness, weight and density (or at least the piece I have does). It bends very well and takes to a finish like a fish to...I just wish I could figure out how to photograph it properly. The light refracts everywhere so you don't get the full motion sickness inducing effect...any hintsMost often Quilt patterns like this are found in slab cut wood (flat sawn) but believe it or don't this is almost perfectly quartered. Maybe that helps explain the craziness going on in the upper bout with the sweep up into a Warf from Star Trek forehead.
Anyways, break is over...
