3 Maples - Are they the same?

Maple is a very softwood. And unless you're a expert those three names described the exact same wood.

There's no such thing as Maple being a hardwood like teak, or desert wood or iron wood anyone that says different Is an idiot. If you want to talk about the gravity or density then you can get into measurable numbers an results an maple is harder than Cedar but it's certainly no Oak wood with its density. It's just a softer hard wood.

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So long as it says MAPLE. It's still maple.

There is a TIGERWOOD many cues have been made from it, but that's not a Maple Wood.

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RCLane said:
Maple is a very softwood. And unless you're a expert those three names described the exact same wood.

There's no such thing as Maple being a hardwood like teak, or desert wood or iron wood anyone that says different Is an idiot. If you want to talk about the gravity or density then you can get into measurable numbers an results an maple is harder than Cedar but it's certainly no Oak wood with its density. It's just a softer hard wood.

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Have a look at this :

http://workshoppages.com/WS/Misc/Wood-Hardness-Chart.pdf

A few selected entries :

Maple, Soft 999
Teak, Plantation 1000
Oak, Tasmainian 1010
Teak, Old Growth 1155
Teak, Ruby or Brown 1200
Red Oak, Domestic 1260-1290
White Oak, North American 1360
Maple, Hard North American 1450
Maple, Ivory 1500
Teak, Striped, Shedua 1650

Dave <-- idiot perhaps, but thinks Acer saccharum is pretty darned hard .... your favorite Acer (there are over a hundred "Maples" to choose from) may vary

PS to Mr. Chicken ... most cue maple (all ???) is Acer saccharum, otherwise known as Hard Maple, Hard Rock Maple, or Sugar Maple. It comes with various figure, curly, tiger, fiddleback being descriptive terms for the figure within the Acer saccharum. Birdseye is also a figuring within Acer saccharum, caused by a disease as I understand.
 
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You Ever worked with maple. Vs Teak it's no comparison

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Now this isn't SPF CRAP that is at Lowe's or Home Depot.

I'm talking Expensive Wood For Expensive Houses an Decks an other Very High End decorative outdoor Things That I've built an built for many Houses when I did home Frame An Finish Carpentry.

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RCLane said:
You Ever worked with maple. Vs Teak it's no comparison

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Yes, I have. As I suggested, it depends on the species of maple and the species of teak. Both can be tough, and teak has the added issue of being so oily, but to suggest that Acer saccharum is a soft wood is foolish imo.

Dave <-- has run many board feet through saws and planners and jointers etc.
 
I've never had to much trouble with oil when I did decks outta teak. Those were a gigantic pain in the ASS because it chewed up blades like nobody's business.

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I never used that much maple expect on Cabinets doors an Flourettes

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RCLane said:
Now this isn't SPF CRAP that is at Lowe's or Home Depot.

I'm talking Expensive Wood For Expensive Houses an Decks an other Very High End decorative outdoor Things That I've built an built for many Houses when I did home Frame An Finish Carpentry.

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These days I shop at the local Windsor Plywood :

http://www.windsorplywood.com/Wood-Plywood.aspx

Lowes doesn't exist here, and Home Depot has very limited wood varieties, spruce being the most common ... not a terrible thing considering we have quite the spruce industry here in Saskatchewan :thumbup:

Dave
 
Oh Lord, you guys are real close to the forests then. With BC an Alberta An you Nation/States lumber industry then you've got a ton of lumber industry out by Montreal an Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire.

Canada has tons of SPF.

I watched this Awesome Show They had on National Geographic or Something about a Company that Builds Log Cabins an Then sends them abroad.

They had a giant whole Spruce or Conifer it was probably 70-100 Years with all the Roots an they made it into a Structural support an decorative at the same time. I worked on one log cabin that was from Montana but it was a little pimple compared to some of those Cabins I saw on that Show. I can't Remember if those guys are in Alberta or Saskatchewan

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