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Bowling alleys and bowling pins are both commonly manufactured from sugar maple. Trees with wavy wood grain, which can occur in curly, quilted, and "birdseye maple" forms, are especially valued. Maple is also the wood used for basketball courts, including the floors used by the NBA, and it is a popular wood for baseball bats, along with white ash.
Bird's eye maple may be expensive, up to several times the cost of ordinary hardwood. It is used in refined specialty products, such as in automobile trim, both in solid form and veneer, boxes and bowls for jewelry, thin veneer, humidors, canes, furniture inlays, handles, guitars, bowed instruments, custom rifle stocks and pool cues are popular uses.
Quilt or quilted maple refers to a type of figure in maple wood. It is seen on the tangential plane ( flat-sawn ) and looks like a wavy "quilted" pattern, often similar to ripples on water. The highest quality quilted figure is found in the Western Big Leaf species of maple. [ 1 ]
Some maple wood has a highly decorative wood grain, known as flame maple, quilt maple, birdseye maple and burl wood. This condition occurs randomly in individual trees of several species and often cannot be detected until the wood has been sawn, though it is sometimes visible in the standing tree as a rippled pattern in the bark.
Acer amplum Rehder – broad maple [17] Acer campestre L. – field maple; Acer cappadocicum Gled. – Cappadocian maple; Acer chunii Fang; Acer divergens Koch ex Pax; Acer fulvescens Rehder in Sargent; Acer lobelii Ten. – Lobel's maple [18] Acer longipes Franch. ex Rehder; Acer miaotaiense P.C.Tsoong [19] Acer miyabei Maxim. – Miyabe's ...
Split tiger maple log shows the physical waviness. When wood from a tree with undulating grain is split, the wood splits along the undulations, so that the split log shows, and one can feel, the physical waviness. Tiger maple sawn flat and stained. The stain accentuates the alternating flat and end grain of the wood.
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Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, [3] creek maple, silverleaf maple, [3] soft maple, large maple, [3] water maple, [3] swamp maple, [3] or white maple, [3] is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada. [3] [4] It is one of the most common trees in the United States.