Another "which maple is which" question

[Zach England]

I apologize. I am sure this has been answered more than once, but my search is fruitless.

What is the difference between tiger maple and curly maple? Then what is red curly maple? When I do a google image search they look identical to me.

Thanks.

[Joe Leigh]

To me Tiger maple and Curly Maple are the same with maybe a touch more figure in the Tiger. Also have Fiddleback Maple which I think is the most densely figured of the three and generally reservered for musical instruments, guitars and the backs of Violins, Violas, etc...

And of course there's always quilted Maple....

[Philip Rodriquez]

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/indextotal.htm#letterR

[Lee Schierer]

All tiger maple is curly, but all curly maple is not tiger striped. Fiddleback is usually a tiger striped maple. Curly red maple is probably from a red maple tree, which is considered to be a soft maple. Tiger maple generally has pronounced stripes of light and dark that would change as the light hits the wood. They can all come from the same tree. http://www.home.earthlink.net/~us71na/maplebox.jpg. Notice how the top has more pronounced stripes than the sides. Yet all of these pieces came form the same piece of wood.