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A bench made of highly figured maple wood. Some of the larger maple species have valuable timber, particularly Sugar maple in North America and Sycamore maple in Europe. Sugar maple wood—often known as "hard maple"—is the wood of choice for bowling pins, bowling alley lanes, pool and snooker cue shafts, and butcher's blocks.
Maplewood Parent Cooperative, a K-8 public school in Edmonds, Washington; Maple Woods Community College, a campus of Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City; Maplewood Mall, a shopping mall in Maplewood, Minnesota; Maplewood Cemetery (Pulaski, Tennessee), a historic cemetery in Pulaski, Tennessee, U.S. Maple (wood)
Maplewood is the birthplace of the wooden golf tee, invented by William Lowell at the Maplewood Golf Club in 1921. [ 59 ] Maplewood has been the site for several films, including I Wanna Hold Your Hand , Garden State , Gracie , One True Thing , Stepmom , and A Good Person .
Bird's eye maple may be expensive, up to several times the cost of ordinary hardwood. It is used in refined specialty products, such as in automobile trim, both in solid form and veneer, boxes and bowls for jewelry, thin veneer, humidors, canes, furniture inlays, handles, guitars, bowed instruments, custom rifle stocks and pool cues are popular uses.
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [3]
Twig and buds. Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, [3] creek maple, silverleaf maple, [3] soft maple, large maple, [3] water maple, [3] swamp maple, [3] or white maple, [3] is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada.
Female flowers Male flowers. Acer negundo, also known as the box elder, boxelder maple, Manitoba maple or ash-leaved maple, is a species of maple native to North America from Canada to Honduras. [3]
Quilt or quilted maple refers to a type of figure in maple wood. It is seen on the tangential plane and looks like a wavy "quilted" pattern, often similar to ripples on water. The highest quality quilted figure is found in the Western Big Leaf species of maple. [1] It is a distortion of the grain pattern itself.