Maple varieties - perceived "hit/feel" differences or characteristics?
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What the heck, i'm bored, taking a break from interminable sunday afternoon session of veneer repairs on wife's 1926 BBC table...:^)
If you mean soft maple/silver maple/ = acer saccharinum or big leaf maple for shafts, I don't actually know, but the wood is a whole lot less dense than Hard/"rock/"sugar" = acer saccharum. Some of the former is almost like poplar density. Not something i'd consider.
However for butt parts, with a good core, soft maples are often more readily available with extreme figure than hard maples. BE, fiddleback, and burls. I have avoided it in the past due to access to highly figured hard maple. However, i have some bigleaf burl that tempts me. Soft maple is about as dense as mahogany or maybe a little better, depending on sources of both. Certainly denser than Koa which some use with cores due to the figure.
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If you mean soft maple/silver maple/ = acer saccharinum or big leaf maple for shafts, I don't actually know, but the wood is a whole lot less dense than Hard/"rock/"sugar" = acer saccharum. Some of the former is almost like poplar density. Not something i'd consider.
However for butt parts, with a good core, soft maples are often more readily available with extreme figure than hard maples. BE, fiddleback, and burls. I have avoided it in the past due to access to highly figured hard maple. However, i have some bigleaf burl that tempts me. Soft maple is about as dense as mahogany or maybe a little better, depending on sources of both. Certainly denser than Koa which some use with cores due to the figure.
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Thanks for responding.
More specifically...
I was interested in you Cuemakers' opinions of any "tonal or vibration transmission efficiency" differences that might be, let's say, more than just the usual personal opinion babble that comes out of terms like hit and feel among the masses. I'm well aware that the total "character" of a cue depends on a hell of a lot more than just the pieces that start out laying on a table.
More specifically...
I was interested in you Cuemakers' opinions of any "tonal or vibration transmission efficiency" differences that might be, let's say, more than just the usual personal opinion babble that comes out of terms like hit and feel among the masses. I'm well aware that the total "character" of a cue depends on a hell of a lot more than just the pieces that start out laying on a table.