COMMON NAMES: Soft maple. Depending on figure: quilted maple, curly maple, tiger maple, fiddleback maple. Maple that has been infected by ambrosia beetles exhibits a streaked appearance known as ambrosia or ghost maple.
SPECIFIC GRAVITY:
0.44 (silver maple, Acer saccharinum)
DENSITY:
TANGENTIAL MOVEMENT:
7.20%
RADIAL MOVEMENT:
3.00%
VOLUMETRIC SHRINKAGE:
12.00%
DURABILITY:
Poor
SOURCE:
Eastern U.S. and Southern Canada
DESCRIPTION:
Density varies among the half dozen or so species marketed as soft maple. The densest and strongest of the soft maples is red maple (Acer rubrum, with a specific gravity of 0.49.) All of the soft maples are close-grained, with excellent turning and shaping characteristics; heartwood pale reddish-brown, sometimes variegated with other pale colors, sapwood nearly white.
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