Wood ID

[daniel]

Curious what type of wood in my recently acquired Pat Diveney cue. I know the handle is ebony & someone called the forearm burl maple..

 

[Lawnboy77]

Yep! Looks like Maple, very nice! I’m not sure what that grained is called. Highly figured! I hear folks call it quilted, or tiger. It’s beautiful!


Edit: below is a sheet of veneer for a guitar that has the same type grain. Expensive, but looks fabulous to me.

High-Flame Bigleaf Maple Torrefied Carved Top, Sanded - 018 - StewMac

Bigleaf Maple,Acer macrophyllum, WAB6YR torrefied roasted

www.stewmac.com

 

[chuckg]

To be 100% sure send a pic to Pat D . I bet he would remember wood that gorgeous .
Chuck

 

[Banger]

It looks like flamed (tiger) maple, to me. Burled maple looks very different from that.

 

[Cuebuddy]

In college it was known as Fiddleback or curly Maple.
Nice looking cue!

 

[daniel]

To be 100% sure send a pic to Pat D . I bet he would remember wood that gorgeous

 

[Fatboy]

In college it was known as Fiddleback or curly Maple.
Nice looking cue!

This is 100% correct

 

[Black-Balled]

Diveney...WOOHOO!!!

 

[Kickin' Chicken]

I went to my photo files to share a couple of my similar TS cues with you andf one was saved as "Curly maple" and the other as "Tiger maple".

 

[Cuebuddy]

Tight curly Maple is one of my favorite woods to use in my mini cues.

 

[thoffen]

"curly" "tiger" "flame" "fiddleback" and "ringed" are all words that could be used to describe the figure here. It's maple. More specifically hard maple. Sometimes called sugar maple or rock maple. Yeah, the world of wood has a lot of names for the same or similar things. This also appears to have been dyed to enhance the contrast in the figure. It is not burl, however.

 

[daniel]

"curly" "tiger" "flame" "fiddleback" and "ringed" are all words that could be used to describe the figure here. It's maple. More specifically hard maple. Sometimes called sugar maple or rock maple. Yeah, the world of wood has a lot of names for the same or similar things. This also appears to have been dyed to enhance the contrast in the figure. It is not burl, however.

Just talked to Pat D & he said its honey cooked curly maple kielwood. Pretty cool!

 

[thoffen]

Just talked to Pat D & he said its honey cooked curly maple kielwood. Pretty cool!

Cool. Yeah I didn't think of it being roasted as the reason for the color instead of dyed.