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    Norway Maple

    Any issues with using Norway maple in furniture building. I may have sourced a tree from a friend.

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    I've never built anything out of it, but I love turning it. It's pretty soft and the grain & color can be inconsistent, but it looks great in a shallow bowl. Might be OK for paint grade stock or something that is intended to have a "rustic" look. As far as I can tell it appears to be pretty stable once dry.
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    If the trunk is fairly narrow, consider riving it. Your yield will be smaller but more stable and prettier.

    It is hard to rive large logs.

    A lot of my dried Norway maple blanks turned brown and mottled. Not rotten, but unevenly brown. This happens to a lot of pear, maple, and birch from my neighborhood yards. This is excusable as character in bowls, but on larger furniture I would beware.

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