
Silver maple woodworking. 221 likes 2 talking about this. Claim your slab online or call 970 213 8608 to purchase. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. That would even out the playing field.
It can be temperamental particularly when finishing and is susceptible to shrinkagemaking sure that your maple is well seasoned and properly acclimatized to your environment will make a big difference in how your maple woodworking projects turn out and how they hold up over time. Grain is generally straight but may be wavy. Maple does have its drawbacks. Compared to red maple silver maple is a bit lower in density and therefore machines a bit more easily with a slight increase in tendency to fuzz.
View our current inventory of live edge silver maple slabs. Not worth the effort if let dry so that you have to fight it to split it. Silver maple makes excellent fire wood if it is cut into 16 inch lengths and split when it is green. No one would want to use wood that was.
Unlike most other hardwoods the sapwood of maple lumber is most commonly used rather than its heartwoodsapwood color ranges from almost white to a light golden or reddish brown while the heartwood is a darker reddish brown. Silver maple should just be called maple and sugar maple should be called unnecessarily hard maple. Silver maple can also be seen with curly or quilted grain patterns. It is one of the two major species silver and red that combine to the group called soft maple.
Seriously folks we get this. So what you have is regular soft maple.