Eric Thumb
08-08-2013, 11:09 PM
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I recently started experimenting with curly maple and was wondering if there was generally a difference in the "curl" between the two. The box on the left is hard maple, the one on the right is soft maple.
Both are finished with super blonde shellac and both were dyed with a brownish transtint dye mixed with water and then sanded back. Although I'm not sure the dye plays any part in this because I believe I sanded it all off. I had hoped that the dye would stay in the curl but by the time I had finished sanding it from the "flat" part there did not appear to be any showing in the curl either.
Anyway these were my first two boards, one soft maple and the other hard maple and there is a noticable difference between the two after finishing. Before finishing they looked almost identical. I was wondering if the soft maple does not generally show the curl as much as hard maple or if it just happened to be the board that I picked.
Also, is there a way to tell at the sawmill if a board will show curl or not? I had thought about taking a water bottle with me but didn't know if that would do much good.
Thanks
I recently started experimenting with curly maple and was wondering if there was generally a difference in the "curl" between the two. The box on the left is hard maple, the one on the right is soft maple.
Both are finished with super blonde shellac and both were dyed with a brownish transtint dye mixed with water and then sanded back. Although I'm not sure the dye plays any part in this because I believe I sanded it all off. I had hoped that the dye would stay in the curl but by the time I had finished sanding it from the "flat" part there did not appear to be any showing in the curl either.
Anyway these were my first two boards, one soft maple and the other hard maple and there is a noticable difference between the two after finishing. Before finishing they looked almost identical. I was wondering if the soft maple does not generally show the curl as much as hard maple or if it just happened to be the board that I picked.
Also, is there a way to tell at the sawmill if a board will show curl or not? I had thought about taking a water bottle with me but didn't know if that would do much good.
Thanks