COMMON NAMES:
Sugar maple, Rock maple
SPECIFIC GRAVITY:
0.56
DENSITY:
TANGENTIAL MOVEMENT:
9.90%
RADIAL MOVEMENT:
4.80%
VOLUMETRIC SHRINKAGE:
14.70%
DURABILITY:
Poor
SOURCE:
New England, Great Lakes states and Eastern Canada
DESCRIPTION:
Heavy, hard and strong. Close-grained, polishes to high luster, wears evenly. Heartwood very pale reddish brown, sapwood virtually white. Often found with curly or birds-eye figure. Experiences high in-use movement with changes in humidity.
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