Tiger maple is the same as curly or flame maple. Your wood could also be an unusual example of maple, stained. All woods have their freakish examples, but the close up grain of most maple is not like your cue.
what we see happening in this thread is exactly why Eric Crisp had such a meteoric rise as a cuemaker - besides making one hell of a stiff-hitting cue, that is.
the woods he chose to use were extraordinary, to say the least.
there's some knowledgeable az'ers scratching their heads over this cue. :smile:
too bad Eric had to step away from it for a while.