The TOP Quality maple for shafts source area is?

[brunswick1901]

UP UP

Yes, the UP or Upper Peninsula looks like an odd shaped island above Michigan has been and hopefully will continue to be a great place to find hard maple which grows on a narrow strip of land on both sides of the U.S. and Canadian border between the Midwest and the East Coast. Too far West the maple is soft, too far North it is too cold and too far South it is too warm. I seem to remember Chuck saying this narrow strip is the only place in the world to find Hard Maple.

This information is from Chuck Truesdell who in the 1990s supplied vacuum dried Straight and Birdseye Maple to best cue makers in the world.

 

[JoeyInCali]

I think you're going to have a hard time getting answers to this question, beyond the big name lumber places most are familiar with.

Very few are willing to give up their source, good wood is hard to come by

I wouldn't.
Specially to someone with no name.

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[ghj26563047]

Yes, the UP or Upper Peninsula looks like an odd shaped island above Michigan has been and hopefully will continue to be a great place to find hard maple which grows on a narrow strip of land on both sides of the U.S. and Canadian border between the Midwest and the East Coast. Too far West the maple is soft, too far North it is too cold and too far South it is too warm. I seem to remember Chuck saying this narrow strip is the only place in the world to find Hard Maple.

This information is from Chuck Truesdell who in the 1990s supplied vacuum dried Straight and Birdseye Maple to best cue makers in the world.

Have any continued about his company???

 

[brunswick1901]

Have any continued about his company???

Chuck no longer sells maple for cues.

 

[Mensabum]

Sounds a lot like how I did it. I had found some wire shelves with one inch on center holes. I would hang shafts vertically and turn a bit off every few months. Six or eight turnings to get near final dimensions. I gave up my cue shop when my eight year old river of wood was lost in a hurricane.

Hu

Thats just sad!!

 

[ShootingArts]

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Thats just sad!!

Bad thing, I had moved my wood to my bedroom to be safe while I was moving my shop location. Thanks to the corp of engineers making a funnel to my community 7000 homes that had never flooded in over twenty-five years flooded. Water rose at least six feet in less than three hours. I waded out to national guard transport in water that was almost neck deep in the road, twenty-six inches from the swamp, wetlands, and sewage treatment plant in my house. Mold grew headhigh overnight, bulldozers came.

Last I heard the fed corp of engineers was planning to build a ring levee around my community for an estimated two billion dollars, probably expanded to three or four billion. The communities next up the river that will become the new spillway will be thrilled no doubt!

Hu

 

[garczar]

I love wood things myself but this thread shows clearly why all the selecting/aging/turning of HRM shafts will be a thing of the past before long. Carbon-fiber is a superior product for the job. Its tunable so any size/taper/flex can be made on demand and repeated ad nauseum. I know this sounds like total heresy to some old-schooler's but that's what is happening. Been playing with maple for 40yrs and recently took the CF plunge on a Rhino. Don't see my Mezz HybridPro(GREAT shaft btw) coming out of the case anytime soon. Just my $.02 here, nothing more.

 

[Mensabum]

Bad thing, I had moved my wood to my bedroom to be safe while I was moving my shop location. Thanks to the corp of engineers making a funnel to my community 7000 homes that had never flooded in over twenty-five years flooded. Water rose at least six feet in less than three hours. I waded out to national guard transport in water that was almost neck deep in the road, twenty-six inches from the swamp, wetlands, and sewage treatment plant in my house. Mold grew headhigh overnight, bulldozers came.

Last I heard the fed corp of engineers was planning to build a ring levee around my community for an estimated two billion dollars, probably expanded to three or four billion. The communities next up the river that will become the new spillway will be thrilled no doubt!

Hu

Jesus H. Christ Hu, that's awful.
I take it your down Nawlins way?? We have similar issues roun' hea . Lol.
They build in flood plains, try to redirect the confluence of the two mightiest rivers on the continent and wonder why It doesnt work.
Lets hear it for the Corps!!

 

[Black-Balled]

Yes

It's like saying how good a drink is by how much alcohol it has, not everyone wants that in a drink.

Stop your crazy talk.

 

[skiergd011013]

Its the most common tree in MA by far

 

[ShootingArts]

Jesus H. Christ Hu, that's awful.
I take it your down Nawlins way?? We have similar issues roun' hea . Lol.
They build in flood plains, try to redirect the confluence of the two mightiest rivers on the continent and wonder why It doesnt work.
Lets hear it for the Corps!!

I would like to go into their main office with a group that had just had cabbage and sweet taters for lunch. We could all turn around, drop our pants, and sing a ditty to the corps!

I was near New Orleans, about twelve miles west. Now I am about thirty miles west and fifty north up off of I-12 not too far. Two hundred feet higher though!

Hu

 

[TrxR]

Seeing As we are talking about wood shafts. I've heard people reference bowling alley shafts. Is this just a shaft made from wood scavenged from bowling lanes?

 

[garczar]

Seeing As we are talking about wood shafts. I've heard people reference bowling alley shafts. Is this just a shaft made from wood scavenged from bowling lanes?

Yes. Those old lanes are made of really good maple, usually quite dense with tight growth-rings.

 

[ghj26563047]

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