Hey, This video is a “must see” for me. All the confusion I’ve had on this subject is resolved now. Presenter has a natural talent to wipe away the minutiae (unnecessary BS) and go clearly for the bones of the subject. Would you consider running for The White House in 2020?
If you're ever in need of content ideas just keep rolling this type of video out through all of the different species out there. This is excellent knowledge. Also, props to your production team. Your vids have excellent production value.
Best review of maple I have ever heard. Own a bowling alley and have replaced the hard maple with synthetics. It’s less maintenance and more durable. However, I kept all the maple wood. Put a dance floor in my banquet room with some of it. Now everybody wants a chunk of the old maple. Such beautiful wood.
Well done! My pop ran a lumber company in the 1960s and was also a fine furniture maker. He hoarded hundreds of board ft. of birdseye maple. I am currently working on a mammoth 3 in thick live edge tiger maple piece. Lucky I could find a company with a helical plane that could plane this wide of a piece. You did a nice job explaining in the video.
the heart wood and the ambrosia maple are real nice looking with the contrasts. it’s great to listen to someone that has all this knowledge about lumber. i’ve watched and listened and trying to retain it all but you have it stored in your brain like a computer. great video! cheers!
Well I you just had to go and get me so interested in this video I just had to subscribe! I have been to your website and it is way beyond my price! But the info you give always coreects my understanding of the various types of wood. So keep the good info coming even if I can't afford anything but yellow pine and an occasional board of red oak!
How funny that this video popped up tonight courtesy of RUclips...I JUST finished placing the first coat of urethane on our Ambrosia Maple floor! Bought a pick up load from a sawmill, took it to a millwork shop and had it milled, laid over 400 sq ft of it. Should come out to about $5 a square foot since I did all the labor. Not cheap but you can't buy a floor like this from a home center. It looks amazing. For an alleged soft wood it's hard as rock!
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. I just started woodworking about six months ago, and burned through all the "how-to" videos on RUclips. Your videos fill a completely different need, and they are informative and entertaining. Great work, and I've learned a ton.
Well done! Been at it 42 years and agree with every word of this video. Although it is seldom available through commercial channels, I understand boxelder is a true maple and has its own characteristics.
I really appreciate the quality answer to beginner questions but also packing in some extra info that most people probably don't know. Thanks for the great content!
Thanks for taking your time to make this video. Definitely helps to know what you're looking at when there are so many woods to choose from. Keep up the good work and I'll be staying tuned.
Thanks for all of your videos, Mark!. They eliminate many of the questions I'd have to ask when I'm in your store! Much easier on the consumer too. Great job!
VERY INTERESTING MAN! As a guitarist i knew about flamed, quilted for lp tops and rock for necks! But i appreciate you sharing your knowledge! Ambrosia looks different but lush all the same!
You have the gift of k.i.s.s.. Thanks for keeping it simple, and I've been a woodworker for years, yet learn something new from every video you post. Subscribed
Awesomeness!! And answered some questions that I had. I bought some hard maple from my local lumber yard but notice that it had some curly waves in it. guess I was just lucky to come across some of that never seen it in person before
Wow, this was a great video! Tons of info, and packed into under 7 minutes, which is always sought out on RUclips. Kudos, and thank you for sharing it!
Another excellent quality video. Thank you!!! I always appreciate your brevity. You don't mess around. You say what needs to be said all with high-level editing.
thanks. super helpful. just finished a round coffee table top made of that "country maple." my local lumber dealer has it labeled as "brown maple" -- i'm assuming it's the same thing. anyway, it's lovely. thanks for the great info!
I usually have a comment about something missed, but wow, you did a good job here. I've been working with figured maple for 40 or more years. I tend to use a thickness sander, (wide belt) for prep on all figured stock. Great video here. You didn't miss a thing, and provide a lot of clear and correct information. I agree that rarely does one find decent birdseye maple at the hardwood stores. And even rarer will some carry quilted for instance. There ARE some specialty mail order places now that carry really good quality figured maple, but one has to be prepared for the price.
Wow! and Wow! again. As a newbie I haven’t seen a video that comes close to this one for information and understanding, it’s clear, concise and easy for a dummy like myself understood it. Thank you very much indeed.
Thank you so much for these! Your videos about the various species of wood have been an excellent, excellent resource for me. I'm still a bit new to woodworking, and I'm the type that wants to know what he's getting into before busting open the piggy bank for more interesting wood to play with. Love the format, too -- a lot of meat, very little fat, while still maintaining a high production value. Perfect.
Thanks! this is a really informative and concise video with lots of useful info. I'm about to start various projects using maple you've answered questioned that I haven't yet thought of asking!
Another "thumbs up", Mark. I've used the color, seal, sand and re color with another color to get some interesting results........something I learned from Charles Neil; God rest his soul.
Nice fast paced and informative video. You got'a get rid of the Ikea cup though. Try a NotNeutal cup with a red ring at the bottom of the cup. Their hard to find but worth it. Thanks for the video. Sweet.
Really enjoying your videos! Thank you. Would enjoy learnign about the different types of Walnut species, particularly the difference between black Walnut and, well, 'regular' Walnut. I make wooden spoons out of Maple and Walnut, folks cant get enough of the walnut, particularly the black walnut. Thanks for taking the time to do these! Love em!
Good stuff. In our area soft maple is called silver maple. I just took one down in my yard that was filled with ambrosia streaks. It’s all milled and drying now. Another tree that is affected by a beetle is the Box elder. That’s what gives it those awesome red streaks. Make sense since it in the maple family
Agreed, & although your “Maple Species 101” was set on a fast track, still not at all difficult to follow, ... great tips for hard vs soft varieties, with a tutelage level, that could be understood by a 2nd grader, ... keep em coming!
Very good information. As a Luthier, and I can only speak to electric guitars, solid body, or semi-hollow body, construction. Maple often used for the neck, and always for the fretboard, hard Maple, Rock Maple is used. Birdseye, because of its tendency to twist as it dries, or over time with changes in humidity, increasing and decreasing,, is not a good choice for the neck, but is quite suitable for the relatively thin fretboard. The decorative tops on guitar bodies can be any figured maple. I get Sugar, "Rock," Maple from only a few suppliers here in Wisconsin, or the UP of Michigan, and I have some incredible figuring on these boards. I did test the hardness to verify it was hard Maple, and no question, it is very hard.
Since some softwoods are harder than some hardwoods, is there a scale somewhere, and how is the hardness of wood measured? I was a parts inspector many years ago, and we had Rockwell machine that used a "Brale" probe with a very specific size and shape of tip to measure metal hardness. It was pressed onto a sample of metal and it made a dent. The depth of the dent produced a number to tell how hard the metal was. Is there a method like this for wood?
Yes! It’s called the Janka hardness test. Results are expressed in psi. Very similar test to the one you described, it’s a steel ball .44” in diameter and pressed into a sample of the material until it’s embedded half of its diameter. Due to the nature of wood in that one piece can have a slightly different density or hardness than another piece, the number you find for a species of wood will be an average of the reported tests.
Thanks for spreading the knowledge! I'm another guy just like the one at the beginning of this vid...so much to learn, and so great to have you as a go to source...I've used some "spalted Maple" on a few projects and really like the figure/character it offers...hope you can find the time to offer some tips on this particular wood as well...Thanks again from the legion of newbies!
When I got into woodworking maybe 10 years ago, I thought I needed to downplay how excited I was about it. Woodworkers are gruff badasses right? An ex-musician doesn't fit in with these guys, right? That couldn't be further from the truth. Every woodworker I've met is just as into it as this guy is. Thanks for the great video. I'm going back to work on finishing my daughter's flame maple jewelry box.
Similarly to the ambrosia maple, locally we produce a lot of maple syrup. So those trees which have been tapped can also be used and have a really interesting colours where the fungus has grown in. A niche market, but neat to see two uses of the same tree.
Thank you for the tutorial!!! What I don't know would fill a library!!!!! Been making stocks from blanks for 50 years, and there is always something to be learned. I am more learned, and astuter! LOL!!!
Interesting tidbit for you direct from my main supplier of curly/quilted/figured maple on Vancouver Island says he always finds figured wood seems to come from trees with one main tap root running down a slope side into water. He's licensed and has hunted specialty woods for over thirty years. We talked about the quilting phenomenon and decided that it has to happen on trees where part of the tree structure has grown over less stable ground which, as the tree sizes up, it's weight has to be held more by one or two sides than the other (usually there are three main stabilizing roots)
Mark, THANK YOU your video’s are GREAT. I live in Tucson and Woodworks Source is my go to place. I have made a live edge Mesquite bench for the patio. It will reside in full sun. Any advice on a finish. I know it will require regular maintenance. But I’d like to protect the beautiful colors the best I can.
Whatever you choose to finish it with, pick up a bottle of Howard’s Sunshield to apply on top of it. Seems like it’s the best thing to help against the damage from UV
some of the best flame-quilt maple can be found growing on a slightly steep hillside in the pnw Oregon and Washington.also big walnut trees can be found growing in similar conditions. heck even old huge stumps can be found sometimes witch is like finding gold if you know what you are doing.
Hey thanks, I got a project I decided to use maple for.( Curtain shelves) I thought a bit of learning was good. I will probably end up using HD maple. not sure where to get nice wood in my area yet. Thanks again for the info ! Subbed thumbs up.
This is pretty awesome. I knew some of this things but not all. It is very cool and you make it interesting. Could you make another for types of Oaks or other lumbers that have several variations like this? Thank you!
Awesome video, very informative! Would you (or anyone in this thread) share thoughts on any precaution needed for air drying spalted maple? I just purchased some green splatted maple and I see remnant fungus (basically mushroom looking things on the wood), and I can’t find any really good info if this. Any precautions need to be taken to ensure the tree doesn’t rot away or just let it be and let it air dry like any other wood?
thanks for mentioning guitars as thats where my interest lies - maple isnt a super popular wood for solid bodies but it is extremely common in neck construction.. black walnut is also a common neck wood - mahogany is still the ideal wood for bodies, but weight is a factor (my les paul, w/ mahogany body, quilted maple cap, and bonded maple neck is an absolute dumptruck - it should've come with sturdy handles - but it sure does sound nice) anyway, the term "spalted maple" is commonly used in guitar circles, and im going to assume from the info you provided that its just another word for (or maybe a specific type of) "country maple" thanks!
Spalted maple is actually different. Spalting is actually a series of black streaky veins that come from a particular mold type condition setting in if the tree was starting to rot, or was improperly stored while drying (like sitting out in silt and water). It creates some really cool patterns, but is less about the actual wood itself, and more about the drying process.
Great video. Thanks! I would love to see more videos like this one about other types of trees. I believe the Ambrosia Maple is also called Spalted Maple. Is that true?
TheWoodWorkingPilot spalted maple does get its color from fungus infiltrating the wood, but not from beetles getting in. Often this comes from a tree that fell and laid outside in the damp for a long time.
Other types of wood can also be spalted. It is an early stage of decay or maybe better said, an indicator of beginning decay. Caused by moisture and fungus infiltration, as David Houston said. The fungus imparts a blueish gray to black color to some of the grain. It’s considered to be a desirable effect in some circles. This effect takes place after the tree is harvested whereas the ambrosia effect occurs as the tree is growing.
another less common maple is the box elder - which is frequently home to the box elder beetle - but is also known for red streaks in the heartwood. Perfect for small pieces.
Box elder makes great fiberboard. Both the seeds and the wood can be toxic, so dust collection and face masks are probably a good idea when working with this wood.
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love the format, no blah blah !! Just to the point clear ,concise , and awesome presentation. Thanks .
Can you frame with soft maple? Like 16 oc walls.
If you're ever in need of content ideas just keep rolling this type of video out through all of the different species out there. This is excellent knowledge. Also, props to your production team. Your vids have excellent production value.
Agree, would like to see your similar takes on other species.
Best review of maple I have ever heard. Own a bowling alley and have replaced the hard maple with synthetics. It’s less maintenance and more durable. However, I kept all the maple wood. Put a dance floor in my banquet room with some of it. Now everybody wants a chunk of the old maple. Such beautiful wood.
Well done! My pop ran a lumber company in the 1960s and was also a fine furniture maker. He hoarded hundreds of board ft. of birdseye maple. I am currently working on a mammoth 3 in thick live edge tiger maple piece. Lucky I could find a company with a helical plane that could plane this wide of a piece. You did a nice job explaining in the video.
the heart wood and the ambrosia maple are real nice looking with the contrasts.
it’s great to listen to someone that has all this knowledge about lumber.
i’ve watched and listened and trying to retain it all but you have it stored in your brain like a computer.
great video!
cheers!
Well I you just had to go and get me so interested in this video I just had to subscribe! I have been to your website and it is way beyond my price! But the info you give always coreects my understanding of the various types of wood. So keep the good info coming even if I can't afford anything but yellow pine and an occasional board of red oak!
How funny that this video popped up tonight courtesy of RUclips...I JUST finished placing the first coat of urethane on our Ambrosia Maple floor! Bought a pick up load from a sawmill, took it to a millwork shop and had it milled, laid over 400 sq ft of it. Should come out to about $5 a square foot since I did all the labor. Not cheap but you can't buy a floor like this from a home center. It looks amazing. For an alleged soft wood it's hard as rock!
35 yrs a wood miser and still learning ...great video ty.
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. I just started woodworking about six months ago, and burned through all the "how-to" videos on RUclips. Your videos fill a completely different need, and they are informative and entertaining. Great work, and I've learned a ton.
That is great to hear, thank you. So glad you found the vids helpful 👍
Well done! Been at it 42 years and agree with every word of this video. Although it is seldom available through commercial channels, I understand boxelder is a true maple and has its own characteristics.
well im 43 yrs so im the authority here.
I really appreciate the quality answer to beginner questions but also packing in some extra info that most people probably don't know. Thanks for the great content!
Just found your videos. Informative and easy to understand. Been a woodworker for twenty + years and I learned something. Thank you.
What a charming, pleasant talk. You have a gift for this video thing.
Thanks for taking your time to make this video. Definitely helps to know what you're looking at when there are so many woods to choose from. Keep up the good work and I'll be staying tuned.
Always enjoy the quality of your videos! You can really sense the passion the company has. Looking forward to see what else is to come.
Thank you very much! So glad to spread the fun and know others "get it" too
Thanks for all of your videos, Mark!. They eliminate many of the questions I'd have to ask when I'm in your store! Much easier on the consumer too. Great job!
I love wormy and spalted maple. My absolute fav. Thanks for sharing.
VERY INTERESTING MAN! As a guitarist i knew about flamed, quilted for lp tops and rock for necks! But i appreciate you sharing your knowledge! Ambrosia looks different but lush all the same!
You have the gift of k.i.s.s.. Thanks for keeping it simple, and I've been a woodworker for years, yet learn something new from every video you post. Subscribed
Awesomeness!! And answered some questions that I had. I bought some hard maple from my local lumber yard but notice that it had some curly waves in it. guess I was just lucky to come across some of that never seen it in person before
Subscribed only 1:58 into the vid. Great info, great editing, great tone inflection to keep interest. Can tell ima be binging on your posts!
Wow, this was a great video! Tons of info, and packed into under 7 minutes, which is always sought out on RUclips. Kudos, and thank you for sharing it!
Totally agree with this comment
Excellent video. You just taught me more than I ever knew about maple, one of my most used woods.
Another excellent quality video. Thank you!!! I always appreciate your brevity. You don't mess around. You say what needs to be said all with high-level editing.
Super. Thanks.
This is one of the most informative woodworking videos I've seen. Thanks for making it!
Wow, thanks!
Another great video, Mark. You now your stuff; that is for sure. Thank you for sharing.
Love your site, great content and you make it interesting without being, preachy. Keep up the good work Thanks.
I've learned so much from such a few videos from you guys. I really appreciate it.
More of these! This was great and very helpful!
Thanks for the info! Your videos are always so nice to watch.
thanks. super helpful. just finished a round coffee table top made of that "country maple." my local lumber dealer has it labeled as "brown maple" -- i'm assuming it's the same thing. anyway, it's lovely. thanks for the great info!
Thanks for putting all that effort into the video. Well lit, good sound, etc. As others have said this is very good information presented very well.
I usually have a comment about something missed, but wow, you did a good job here. I've been working with figured maple for 40 or more years. I tend to use a thickness sander, (wide belt) for prep on all figured stock. Great video here. You didn't miss a thing, and provide a lot of clear and correct information. I agree that rarely does one find decent birdseye maple at the hardwood stores. And even rarer will some carry quilted for instance. There ARE some specialty mail order places now that carry really good quality figured maple, but one has to be prepared for the price.
Many thanks for your great videos. Your delivery is amazing.
Wow! and Wow! again. As a newbie I haven’t seen a video that comes close to this one for information and understanding, it’s clear, concise and easy for a dummy like myself understood it. Thank you very much indeed.
Had to subscribe. Love how you explain it all in simple terms and not try and sound all booksmart about it👍
Thank you so much for these! Your videos about the various species of wood have been an excellent, excellent resource for me. I'm still a bit new to woodworking, and I'm the type that wants to know what he's getting into before busting open the piggy bank for more interesting wood to play with. Love the format, too -- a lot of meat, very little fat, while still maintaining a high production value. Perfect.
Thanks! this is a really informative and concise video with lots of useful info. I'm about to start various projects using maple you've answered questioned that I haven't yet thought of asking!
Another "thumbs up", Mark. I've used the color, seal, sand and re color with another color to get some interesting results........something I learned from Charles Neil; God rest his soul.
Nice fast paced and informative video. You got'a get rid of the Ikea cup though. Try a NotNeutal cup with a red ring at the bottom of the cup. Their hard to find but worth it. Thanks for the video. Sweet.
Really enjoying your videos! Thank you. Would enjoy learnign about the different types of Walnut species, particularly the difference between black Walnut and, well, 'regular' Walnut. I make wooden spoons out of Maple and Walnut, folks cant get enough of the walnut, particularly the black walnut. Thanks for taking the time to do these! Love em!
Well done. Please post more information about types of wood as this information is very hard to find. Thanks
Good stuff. In our area soft maple is called silver maple. I just took one down in my yard that was filled with ambrosia streaks. It’s all milled and drying now. Another tree that is affected by a beetle is the Box elder. That’s what gives it those awesome red streaks. Make sense since it in the maple family
Agreed, & although your “Maple Species 101” was set on a fast track, still not at all difficult to follow, ... great tips for hard vs soft varieties, with a tutelage level, that could be understood by a 2nd grader, ... keep em coming!
Very good information.
As a Luthier, and I can only speak to electric guitars, solid body, or semi-hollow body, construction.
Maple often used for the neck, and always for the fretboard, hard Maple, Rock Maple is used. Birdseye, because of its tendency to twist as it dries, or over time with changes in humidity, increasing and decreasing,, is not a good choice for the neck, but is quite suitable for the relatively thin fretboard. The decorative tops on guitar bodies can be any figured maple.
I get Sugar, "Rock," Maple from only a few suppliers here in Wisconsin, or the UP of Michigan, and I have some incredible figuring on these boards. I did test the hardness to verify it was hard Maple, and no question, it is very hard.
I've watched about 6 or 7 videos now and while I'm not one to comment much... I feel so inclined. You are AWESOME!
So kind, thank you for watching!
Great video!, I just tried making a reclaimed pallet wood step stool out of what appears to be "country maple" according to your video! Thanks
Just discovered your explanatory videos; these are extremely well done and helpful, many thanks.
Since some softwoods are harder than some hardwoods, is there a scale somewhere, and how is the hardness of wood measured? I was a parts inspector many years ago, and we had Rockwell machine that used a "Brale" probe with a very specific size and shape of tip to measure metal hardness. It was pressed onto a sample of metal and it made a dent. The depth of the dent produced a number to tell how hard the metal was. Is there a method like this for wood?
Yes! It’s called the Janka hardness test. Results are expressed in psi. Very similar test to the one you described, it’s a steel ball .44” in diameter and pressed into a sample of the material until it’s embedded half of its diameter. Due to the nature of wood in that one piece can have a slightly different density or hardness than another piece, the number you find for a species of wood will be an average of the reported tests.
Excellent introduction to maples - well presented - I wish he spent a little time on how he made the boxes
Thanks for spreading the knowledge! I'm another guy just like the one at the beginning of this vid...so much to learn, and so great to have you as a go to source...I've used some "spalted Maple" on a few projects and really like the figure/character it offers...hope you can find the time to offer some tips on this particular wood as well...Thanks again from the legion of newbies!
Great video topic! Please make a series out of it and introduce oak, pine and lots of others.
When I got into woodworking maybe 10 years ago, I thought I needed to downplay how excited I was about it. Woodworkers are gruff badasses right? An ex-musician doesn't fit in with these guys, right? That couldn't be further from the truth. Every woodworker I've met is just as into it as this guy is.
Thanks for the great video. I'm going back to work on finishing my daughter's flame maple jewelry box.
I hear you! I’m an ex-touring drummer...but most woodworkers I know/met are all pretty rad people :)
Started building drums lol.
I have to say, that was an amazing description of workable maples. Thank you very much.
Happy to find your channel. Great video and conveyed a lot of info even better with your articulation. Subscribed
Similarly to the ambrosia maple, locally we produce a lot of maple syrup. So those trees which have been tapped can also be used and have a really interesting colours where the fungus has grown in. A niche market, but neat to see two uses of the same tree.
Wow, another great, informative video on Maple Wood. And FYI, I live just outside of...Maplewood...
I got 10 acres of red and silver maple and wasn't sure if it would be worth milling. This at least gets me started. Nice video.
Thank you for the tutorial!!!
What I don't know would fill a library!!!!!
Been making stocks from blanks for 50 years, and there is always something to be learned. I am more learned, and astuter! LOL!!!
Nice to know some more details about maple! From watching your video I now know that all the times I’ve worked with maple it’s been soft maple.
Great video! Have you got a video on those beautiful little boxes?
Very informative. One can learn something new every day. Thank you, that was interesting.
Thanks for this very helpful info. And would like to ask what's the best way to organize a small shop? And what's the must have tools?
Very informative. Excellent photos / videos to illustrate your points. Thanks! 👍
Very well done. Have 3 boards here and now I know for sure their type. Excellent presentation. Maybe walnut could be next? Suscribed.
Interesting tidbit for you direct from my main supplier of curly/quilted/figured maple on Vancouver Island says he always finds figured wood seems to come from trees with one main tap root running down a slope side into water. He's licensed and has hunted specialty woods for over thirty years. We talked about the quilting phenomenon and decided that it has to happen on trees where part of the tree structure has grown over less stable ground which, as the tree sizes up, it's weight has to be held more by one or two sides than the other (usually there are three main stabilizing roots)
These videos are fantastic. Thanks.
Love the videos, very helpful for someone just getting into hard woods.
Mark, THANK YOU your video’s are GREAT. I live in Tucson and Woodworks Source is my go to place. I have made a live edge Mesquite bench for the patio. It will reside in full sun. Any advice on a finish. I know it will require regular maintenance. But I’d like to protect the beautiful colors the best I can.
Whatever you choose to finish it with, pick up a bottle of Howard’s Sunshield to apply on top of it. Seems like it’s the best thing to help against the damage from UV
Great info. Huge fan or curly for knife handles.
some of the best flame-quilt maple can be found growing on a slightly steep hillside in the pnw Oregon and Washington.also big walnut trees can be found growing in similar conditions. heck even old huge stumps can be found sometimes witch is like finding gold if you know what you are doing.
really impressed with your videos. you know your stuff. thanks for the education
fantastic explanations. Love it.
Thanks for this :)
Like to learn something new every day, and you delivered!
Thank you for a very informative, educational and nicely presented video. I have just subscribed.
Wow, super informative.. everything I wanted to know about maple. What type of maple would you recommend for picture frames?
Time to check to see if you made one of these for other species! Thanks!
Hey thanks,
I got a project I decided to use maple for.( Curtain shelves) I thought a bit of learning was good.
I will probably end up using HD maple. not sure where to get nice wood in my area yet.
Thanks again for the info !
Subbed thumbs up.
Great Explanation. Learned a lot. Thx
Great video! short, simple and informative.
Appreciate the info and the enthusiasm from Jeremy Renner's woodworking cousin!
This is pretty awesome. I knew some of this things but not all. It is very cool and you make it interesting. Could you make another for types of Oaks or other lumbers that have several variations like this?
Thank you!
Well done and very helpful, many thanks!
Can you do a video like this on Padauk? It’s my new favorite wood 😃
Super hard and has a bacon smell...but man is it gorgeous!
Thanks!
:)
Thanks for a fun video. Now, where can I get some of that awesome wood? The hunt is on.
PS Those are gorgeous boxes you had for displays. Thanks.
New to wood working, man I love that curly maple.
This is a great and very informative video, thank you so much for the showing this and showing great examples.
Great video, so much info and great presentation. I like how you outlined the workability qualities of all the types.
You are good at this video thing... great job.
Awesome video, very informative! Would you (or anyone in this thread) share thoughts on any precaution needed for air drying spalted maple? I just purchased some green splatted maple and I see remnant fungus (basically mushroom looking things on the wood), and I can’t find any really good info if this. Any precautions need to be taken to ensure the tree doesn’t rot away or just let it be and let it air dry like any other wood?
EXCELLENT Video!.... Prociate’ all the knowledge Brother! Have A Super Week!.....Gus
Love this video! Have you done any other woods? I never new maple was sap wood. That’s pretty crazy
thanks for mentioning guitars as thats where my interest lies - maple isnt a super popular wood for solid bodies but it is extremely common in neck construction.. black walnut is also a common neck wood - mahogany is still the ideal wood for bodies, but weight is a factor (my les paul, w/ mahogany body, quilted maple cap, and bonded maple neck is an absolute dumptruck - it should've come with sturdy handles - but it sure does sound nice)
anyway, the term "spalted maple" is commonly used in guitar circles, and im going to assume from the info you provided that its just another word for (or maybe a specific type of) "country maple"
thanks!
Spalted maple is actually different. Spalting is actually a series of black streaky veins that come from a particular mold type condition setting in if the tree was starting to rot, or was improperly stored while drying (like sitting out in silt and water).
It creates some really cool patterns, but is less about the actual wood itself, and more about the drying process.
Mahogany is the main wood of electrics but rosewood is the preffered wood for most high quality acoustic bodies.
Great video. Thanks!
I would love to see more videos like this one about other types of trees.
I believe the Ambrosia Maple is also called Spalted Maple. Is that true?
TheWoodWorkingPilot spalted maple does get its color from fungus infiltrating the wood, but not from beetles getting in. Often this comes from a tree that fell and laid outside in the damp for a long time.
Other types of wood can also be spalted. It is an early stage of decay or maybe better said, an indicator of beginning decay. Caused by moisture and fungus infiltration, as David Houston said. The fungus imparts a blueish gray to black color to some of the grain. It’s considered to be a desirable effect in some circles. This effect takes place after the tree is harvested whereas the ambrosia effect occurs as the tree is growing.
another less common maple is the box elder - which is frequently home to the box elder beetle - but is also known for red streaks in the heartwood. Perfect for small pieces.
there is a lot of this stuff in Russia, btw - an invasive species here, but it really likes to form big burls, grows insanely fast, so it's a plus..
Box elder makes great fiberboard. Both the seeds and the wood can be toxic, so dust collection and face masks are probably a good idea when working with this wood.
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