beautiful curly maple

[Birchwood Logging]

 

  

  I do believe this is the prettiest curly maple I've ever seen, now what to do with it?

[mesquite buckeye]

Pretty nice. ;D

I suggest you make something pretty nice. ;D ;D ;D

[Peter Drouin]

I had some like that, Made the blade on the mill Chatter when it cut. :D

[Magicman]

Pretty stuff.  Whatever you build out of it will be a treasure.

[GAB]

I had two logs similar to that one spring and a fellow wanted it QS for guitar necks.
Gerald

[Birchwood Logging]

Yes it was some difficult stuff to saw I wish I could find a market for it I have around 250 bf of it just like that curly from one end to the other I don't even know what to price it for any of you guys ever sold any curly hard maple

[WDH]

It is beautiful. 

[mikeb1079]

dang birchwood you get to play work with some nice timber!!!!

[woodjunky]

Amazing! After logs like that, regular wood just seems kinda.............eh.............

[Kcwoodbutcher]

I'd say $7.50 to $10.00 a BF on the low wholesale end. I get pieces like that for drum shell blanks but never 250 BF. It's much more common in soft maple.

[scleigh]

The Instrument building folks( banjo, violin, guitar) really like curly Maple. Maybe target them, and the local wood workers.

[rooster 58]

I just sawed some like that last month.  285 bd ft. Part of me wants to save it for me. The other part says to sell it. I was wondering myself what it would bring on the market

[Farmer Jim]

How thick are the boards?  If 2 1/2" or more (3" would be a good thickness) they would sell as muzzleloader stocks at $100-$800 or more for one stock blank, depending on the curl and whether sugar maple or red maple.

[rooster 58]

Unfortunately I did not make any stock blanks. I am still kicking myself in the you know what for not doing so :. I sawed it all into 4 quarter

[dgdrls]

Yes it was some difficult stuff to saw I wish I could find a market for it I have around 250 bf of it just like that curly from one end to the other I don't even know what to price it for any of you guys ever sold any curly hard maple

Local Hardwood shop gets $7.95/B.F. for 4/4.  Kiln dried material from Conn.

DGDrls

[Birchwood Logging]

I did saw a 2-1\2x12 and a 3x12 had a local gun smith offer me $50 each for them I told him I better pass lol

[Farmer Jim]

I did saw a 2-1\2x12 and a 3x12 had a local gun smith offer me $50 each for them I told him I better pass lol

Good.  The best money is if it is air dried, but if you need to, you can easily find someone to pay well for a piece like in the photo even if it isn't dry.  Sugar maple is preferred, because the best carving requires hard dense wood and a lot of red maple isn't dense enough.  Some is and some builders will use softer red maple with great curl for guns without carving.  A 3X12 may yield 2 blanks if it is long enough, 7' gives room to move the pattern around during layout to ensure that the grain runs through the wrist and doesn't run out in the wrist, the weakest area.  So if it is sugar maple and 2 blanks could be sawed from one plank, it should be no less than $200 for the board if the curl is like that in the photos.  Wish I was near you, that is nice curl.

[WDH]

If it was mine, I would price it at about $8.00/BF for the 4/4.  I have yet to have a curly maple log anywhere near that good. 

[wle]

How wide are the boards? Very nice stuff.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

This is amazing. We don't have grain like this where I live. Good job!

[Birchwood Logging]

The boards are 12 inches wide and 8 feet long. I guess that's one of the benefits of being a logger when I run across a nice curly log like that I can lay it to the side

[OneWithWood]

In these parts that is known as tiger maple.  Instrument makers, especially violin makers, will pay through the nose for it.