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Dan Williams
05-10-2008, 6:27 PM
I have access to a bunch of Silver Maple. Is this a good looking and turning wood. Does anyone have somthing they turned out of silver maple that you can post so I can see ?

Andrew Derhammer
05-10-2008, 6:28 PM
Bill Grumbine had me use this in his class to make my first bowl, no pics it's still drying:D

Matt Hutchinson
05-10-2008, 6:32 PM
This is a small plate I made out of spalted silver maple. So yes, this is good wood. Plus, at crotches and the base of the trunk there is always figuring. Take as much as you can, because it will be great practice wood if nothing else.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=788036&mode=linear#post788036

Hutch

Dan Williams
05-10-2008, 6:36 PM
This is a small plate I made out of spalted silver maple. So yes, this is good wood. Plus, at crotches and the base of the trunk there is always figuring. Take as much as you can, because it will be great practice wood if nothing else.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=788036&mode=linear#post788036

Hutch
That is nice love the spalting