Wild Maple post pics

[MAJOR METAL]

Is Wild Maple like a mix between quilt and flame?.If you have any pics please feel free to post them.Thanks

 

[jja412]

My Warmoth body was called "wild maple." It looks like this:

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[MAJOR METAL]

It does seem like a mixture.

 

[jja412]

Yeah, it's kinda swirly - not really the billowy quilt, definitely not the uniform flame... but I really like it, knots and all

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Very Unique indeed , great stuff.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

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[sargebaker]

The back of my neck on my cheapo Aria seems to be wild. It has a bit of quilt high up and some random birdseyes (maybe just alot of knots) along with some really wicked almost spalt like grain. It's not a great neck in terms of stability but it actually has the best feeling neck of all my basses.

 

[pistoleroace]

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Nice but not very wild IMO

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Nice but not very wild IMO

I guess their are better party animals out their

 

[wingnutkj]

Here's my Warmoth tele (OK, so it's a guitar, but you get the idea). It's somewhere between quilt and flame, with a really interesting pattern.

 

[ole Jason]

Here's my Warmoth tele (OK, so it's a guitar, but you get the idea). It's somewhere between quilt and flame, with a really interesting pattern.

Looks like a butterfly

 

[Bassmanbob]

My Warmoth body was called "wild maple." It looks like this:

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That may be the coolest piece of maple I've ever seen. I love how there is no real pattern to it. Looks like one of those liquid sand art things that you turn over and watch.

A real beauty.

 

[hippiesandwich]

Pete The Fish at Wal called this "figured maple" - seems to fit the bill:

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Pete The Fish at Wal called this "figured maple" - seems to fit the bill:

Very Nice, looks like that could be a heavy one.

 

[pistoleroace]

I guess their are better party animals out their

 

[MAJOR METAL]

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[FireAarro]

There was some nutsy giant birdseyeish or something maple stuff on Warmoth before, I think they called it wild. But it's gone now

 

[matthewfoote]

Call me cynical but I think "wild" maple is a term some marketing man thought up to describe some maple that wasn't totally flame or birdseye or quilt but a mixture. I think Pete the fish was accurate when he described it as figured maple.

That said I like the look of the tops posted but I think the term "wild" is just to make it more sexy and therefore more sellable and more valuable to the luthier. If it does not have a name or catagory then the luthier would not be able to shift it so easily but with a new catagory it has added value and people will more readily be prepared to buy it.

Hope this does not start a flame war [sorry bad pun but I couldn't resist it]

Regards

Matthew

 

[wingnutkj]

Heaven forbid that people would have the nerve to try to make the product they're selling more attractive...

I think it's as good a term as any; if you just call it "figured", you'll get people asking "what kind of figuring? Quilted? Flamed?", and then you have to say, "well, it's kind of, um..."

I think "wild" does quite a good job of explaining the nature of the figuring. One less sylable than "random" and a whole lot less than "kind of, um". Personally, I wouldn't buy a body with a "wild" figured top without seeing what it actually looked like - I bought my tele because I liked the look of the top, not because it was "wild".

Then again, I'm sure the same discussion has taken place about "spalted" tops. I mean, it's just rotten wood, right...?
*hides*

 

[MAJOR METAL]

I think Wild works since the others like flame or quilt have a particular deffinition to them they get deffined as such.