What Does Raw Maple Wood Look Like

The curly grain can make tiger maple less stable than straight grained maple.

What does raw maple wood look like.

Love the look of this finish really has an old raw wood appearance that i would like to try after seeing your results on the little night table. The term soft maple is a bit of a comparative misnomer as soft maple is harder than many other hardwoods such as cherry. Moreover maple wood can be stained to look like other wood types such as mahogany. Unlike maple mahogany harvesting is responsible for a great deal of deforestation throughout the caribbean and central and south america and is considered vulnerable much of the mahogany trade today is still illegal.

It will be a major job to properly restain the wood because you d have to strip the finish off potentially sand off the stained wood and then restain raw wood. Tiger maple is recommended with a. Soft maple is also often referred to as tiger maple for the tiger like stripes in the wood or curly maple if the stripes are a bit more of the curly. Tiger wood is a hard durable wood and is a frequent choice for custom made furniture.

Looks like a ring porous hardwood possibly oak. Tiger maple has a unique pattern to it the pattern travels across the grain and can look like stripes waves or small flames. First of all soft maple and red maple are typically the same things. I have two pine pieces in my bedroom a 2 door cabinet with a 2 drawer base about 60 tall and a matching chest of drawers about 48 tall.