Robert Joseph
11-04-2011, 6:52 PM
Didn't see an area for wood related topics....so here I am.
Speaking with an old timer that traded me some curly maple for some butternut logs I had and he said it's easy to turn any maple into a curly figured log. He said you wait til the sapling is a couple years old (6-10 feet) high....stake it to one side for one season and stake it the opposite way the next season....then stake it straight up (if necessary) the third and let it grow. When cut and sawn it will be curly.
Is this true? All my years around maple and I never heard of this.
Speaking with an old timer that traded me some curly maple for some butternut logs I had and he said it's easy to turn any maple into a curly figured log. He said you wait til the sapling is a couple years old (6-10 feet) high....stake it to one side for one season and stake it the opposite way the next season....then stake it straight up (if necessary) the third and let it grow. When cut and sawn it will be curly.
Is this true? All my years around maple and I never heard of this.