Curly Hard Maple Lumber

Curly hard maple is hard maple lumber with a figure that typically runs across the width of the board.

Curly hard maple lumber.

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. 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. Curly maple tiger maple is traditional hard maple sugar maple rock maple hard rock maple with a soft and flowing figure.

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. Curly maple figuring is similar to quilted maple but curl is a primarily horizontal pattern perpendicular to the wood grain. 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. 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. 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.