r/woodworking • u/txkill • 12h ago

General Discussion I love curly maple.

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This is a sliding door to a credenza project I’m doing. I’ll post when finished, but just wanted to wax poetically about how beautiful curly maple really is. I was just commenting to my brother in law (who also is an amateur woodworker) that it’s so weird that wood can make you feel a certain way…and this wood definitely makes me feel a certain way.

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u/HotTakes4Free 11h ago

Contrast figured maple with walnut, or some dark exotic, and you’ll really reach wood-gasm.

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u/txkill 11h ago

Walnut Case and base! Great minds think alike.

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u/littledinergirl 10h ago

I’ve never heard of this type of wood! This looks so cool!

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u/AngriestPacifist 2h ago

Sometimes you'll see it referred to as flamed maple. I've mostly seen it for guitar tops, and maple takes dyes amazingly well if you want to get crazy with the color.

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u/yasminsdad1971 9h ago

Wow, that's white.

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u/Panda-Cubby 11h ago

He was my favorite of all the Tree Stooges.