However, it involves outbidding interested veneer buyers. In my experience, most people are shocked to find out the cost of doing so. Our Birdseye wood pricing depends on 3 factors: figure level , lumber grade and market availability. In my experience, that is a typical ratio, among hardwood lumber suppliers who stock BE maple on a regular basis. However, birdseye maple prices are not consistent among lumber suppliers. The primary reason for this is that most lumber suppliers buy and sell BE Maple using a single cost.
They typically do not price based on figure density. Thus, the all wood buyers pay the same price typically the average price for birdseye boards.
Assuming every hardwood customer looks for the best birdseye, the earliest shoppers get the best board footage and the latest shoppers get the worst board footage. All sells at the same price. Accordingly, woodworkers allow for more standard NHLA lumber defects provided the boards have figure. Again, all of these wood planks sell for the same price.
Accordingly, this is why woodworkers often rush to be the first to buy when a new unit of birdseye wood arrives at the lumber yard!
Please contact us for current information. Eye density. A high concentration of eye figure is more valuable than scattered eyes. White sapwood coverage. Figure in bright white sapwood is preferable to figure in brown heartwood or mineral. NHLA lumber grade. As with un-figured lumber, value is proportional to NHLA grade. Face coverage. When density is consistent in a log, eyes are visible in both faces of the lumber.
Such boards show Birdseye on both faces after machining. Accordingly, lumber with good figure on two faces commands a premium. Maple wood with Birdseye figure is typically less stable than unfigured maple. The reason is that inconsistencies in wood fiber have different densities. Here is what luthier Bill Crook wrote about roasted maple stability:.
To test for shrinkage, I let the neck sit over the winter in a very dry, non-humidified area along with several other maple necks. Result: The baked maple neck was the only one that did not exhibit any fret sprout…. Normally, a neck will take days or weeks of adjustments under string tension before it is stable. Once my neck was finished and assembled, it had a much shorter settling-in period compared to standard maple, and wherever I set the truss rod, it stayed.
For comparison, I tried a regular maple neck on the same guitar. Acoustically, the baked maple neck was a bit more resonant and louder. I had friends play several gigs with the guitar, including an outdoor humid show one night right to an air-conditioned event the next. Through all of this the neck remained stable without needing further adjustments. Overall baked maple seems very promising. I feel confident that using baked maple will give you a distinctive neck with no stability issues.
Birdseye Maple flooring is made from BE lumber. However, it is a relatively rare flooring wood option. There are 4 reasons why few maple floors have Birdseye figure :.
In fact, Wood Magazine readers selected figured maple is their number one choice for wood turning blank specie. Un-figured maple has an even consistent fine course texture which helps prevent the tooling from gouging and grain tearing while shaping. Significantly, the figure sprouts from stunted growth branches. The most common way to repair torn grain in wood turning is with a scraping tool.
Alternatively, wood turners may prefer the aggressive scraping properties of a bowl gouge tool. Seasoned foresters, sawyers and log buyers examine Birds Eye maple trees in the forest. Thus, There are several things to look for:. Many foresters believe Birds eye figure results from stunted growth. Distressed growing conditions cause new buds to form.
However, they fail to grow. Accordingly, branches leave birdseye markings in the maple wood. Author and lumberman, Rick Hearne concurs. In an article for Wood Magazine, Hearne states that after thinning:. This leads me to conclude that the eye is a form of epicormic budding, or dormant buds that, when exposed to light, will grow a new branch. Figuring Out Figure — Birds-Eye. Wood Magazine. Of course, no one has definitely concluded how BE is produced. Birdseye Maple is a common component in private jets, automobiles, musical instruments, architectural panels, entertainment centers, cabinets, furniture, jewelry boxes, pool cues, flooring, and fixtures.
Birdseye Maple. Properties Birdseye maple has a medium density and variable color. Working Properties Birdseye and other figured maples never like to be planed and always work better with sanders rather than planers. Uses Birdseye Maple is a common component in private jets, automobiles, musical instruments, architectural panels, entertainment centers, cabinets, furniture, jewelry boxes, pool cues, flooring, and fixtures.
Sawyers in these regions tell me they find bird's-eye figure most often on the north side of a dense woodlot. If at some point these woodlots are thinned, they usually stop producing bird's-eye.
This leads me to conclude that the eye is a form of epicormic budding, or dormant buds that, when exposed to light, will grow a new branch. The eye figure shows up only on a flat-sawn board or veneer; therefore, these veneers are produced on a rotary slicer.
The grain is very complicated, so it takes a skilled craftsman to work with it using hand tools and high-quality sharp power tools to avoid tear-out.
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