What does "wild maple" or "wild flame maple" look like?

[Beej]

This.....as opposed to maple trees that are grown in captivity and forced to give up their sap so the world can enjoy their pancakes.

I'm Canadian. You know this is actually a thing with us, right? Exactly as you describe it, we do it. Except we like to think of sap as "maple blood", cuz we're sick...

 

[bassplayer9512]

Its probably Pacific coast maple. Like what we stock at the wood shop where I work

 

[red_rhino]

I only use "line caught" maple, not farmed or netted.

 

[mikewalker]

In our shop, we referred to "wild" maple as any well-figured maple which combined multiple kinds of figuring: "Quilted-flamed-burl", for example. (I have some pics in the archive that I know we specifically labelled "wild maple", will see if I can dig them out this evening.)

The only one I have handy is this 'mildly wild' flamed-spalted-birdseye...

 

[micguy]

Wild is the best maple for metal. Tame maple is best for easy listening.

 

[smogg]

I only buy instruments made from pesticide free, GMO free, free range lumber.

In other words wood that's been illegally poached from preserves.

 

[Thumpin6string]

I only buy instruments made from pesticide free, GMO free, free range lumber.

Not Organic?

 

[fhm555]

Seems like i read long ago that French funiture makers wrapped maple trees with chains then let them grow for a decade or so to produce a controlled grain pattern, or close to one. Perhaps wild grain would be naturally occuring oddball grain patterns?
Also, birdseye is a lage number of branch buds that never made it, so wouldn't the crazy number of below the surface cluster of branch buds that never make it, thus forming a burl, be more like wood cancer than grain pattern?

 

[MattZilla]

tTB.


Lol

 

[Jehos]

I only use "line caught" maple, not farmed or netted.

Line caught? Humbug! Noodling is the truest method of acquiring tone woods. Ask any guitarist.

 

[BigBear77]

mine has to be gluten free or I will break out in hives, swell up like a grape and turn greenish purple

Pics or it didn't happen

 

[BOOG]

Pics or it didn't happen

I would but, it's so like hard to find like 35mm film, and like the digital pictures ya know, it just isn't the same dude. I just can't bring myself to doing that to the art of photography man

 

[Daniel Piper]

Wild is the best maple for metal. Tame maple is best for easy listening.

Line caught? Humbug! Noodling is the truest method of acquiring tone woods. Ask any guitarist.

My sound guy (who did sound for the Beatles, Zepelin, Beethoven and mother Theresa) loves my wild maple basses! You can't argue with that kinda science!

 

[Huw Phillips]

I expect we will start to see stoned maple soon from the legal states where the herb has been grown among the maple, slow growing Canadian may be interesting, I do recall seeing wild walking trees in my youth after a ingesting a rather small dot, I have never found those trees again and would not won't to cut them as they were very friendly, good friends on a terrifying journey, as the great man said " don't ever try to look behind my eyes you do t want to know what they have seen"

 

[Chicory Blue]

They should call it "Flaple" for short.

--^@

 

[Rôckhewer]

I expect we will start to see stoned maple soon from the legal states where the herb has been grown among the maple, slow growing Canadian may be interesting, I do recall seeing wild walking trees in my youth after a ingesting a rather small dot, I have never found those trees again and would not won't to cut them as they were very friendly, good friends on a terrifying journey, as the great man said " don't ever try to look behind my eyes you do t want to know what they have seen"

My thoughts exactly.
Stay wierd brother.

 

[Rôckhewer]

Personally... I would like to try a little cross breeding/ sapling grafting .
Box Elder - OG Kush.
...suddenly that scorched end grain is not such a big deal anymore.