is this birdseye?

[Mark Kosmowski]

I have some interesting figure in some soft maple and would like some help figuring out if it is birdseye or sawyering. The below pics have had brightness and contrast adjusted in order to better show the figure.

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Thanks!

[David DeCristoforo]

I don't see any bird's eye...

[Todd Reinbold]

Looks to me that its quartersawn. See how the grain is oriented on the ends of the boards. I like the way quartersawn maple looks.

[Mark Kosmowski]

Thanks Todd. Didn't think to check the end of the board for quartersawn and it does look similar to quartersawn oak.

[Gerry Grzadzinski]

Looks quartersawn to me too. No birdseye.

[Richard M. Wolfe]

No birdseye. It's ray fleck that wood shows when cut radial to the growth, as in quartersawing. The most common and pronounced of this type fleck is in sycamore, cut I think most woods, if not all wil show it to some extent.

[Roger Everett]

I'm with the other guys. What I see in the pics is quarter-sawn, with some ray fleck. Birdseye is most generally found in Hard Maple, and not in soft.
Roger

[george wilson]

Definitely medullar rays. They show up on quartered wood. Medullar rays radiate out from the center of the tree to the outside. They help bind the tree together so that the growth rings do not separate. Particularly seen in sycamore,a type of lowland maple. On oak,the wood has to be just about perfectly quartered to see them the best.

[Joe Leigh]

Another vote for quartersawn Sycamore.

[Jim Rimmer]

Looks quartersawn to me too. No birdseye.
+1 on the qs and no birdseye