Quilted Maple

Description

Dimensions: 29 x 38 x 122mm.

Absolutely beautiful wood.

Quilted maple refers to a type of “figure” in maple wood. It is seen on the tangential plane (flat-sawn) and looks like a wavy “quilted” pattern, often like ripples on water. The quilted figure is only found in the Western Big Leaf species of maple. It is a distortion of the grain pattern itself. Prized for its beauty, it is used frequently in the manufacturing of knife handles and musical instruments, especially guitars. Quilted maple is an end grain figure that shows a circular pattern on flat sawn material. There are many terms that describe the shape and pattern of quilted maple. Aka watered, popcorn, tubular, sausage, bubble wrap, angle step.