Maple – Soft Curly

Acer rubrum
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Soft Maple
Curly Soft Maple lumber at Rare Woods USA

Curly Soft Maple is Red Maple (Acer rubrum) with shimmering curl figure. Red Maple is the heaviest and most common of the soft maples and grows across the eastern US and Canada, including here in Maine.

The pale white to golden sapwood is the most valued part, and the figure can include tiger stripe, fiddleback and occasionally quilt. Curl is actually more common in soft maples than in hard, so there’s plenty of character to choose from. Our stock generally ranges from light to medium figure.

It’s a little easier to work than hard maple. Take light passes to avoid tear-out in the figure, and go slowly with high-speed tools, as maple can burn. A dye or oil finish brings the curl to life.

Curly Soft Maple is popular for guitar bodies and tops, furniture, boxes, turnings, specialty items and veneer, and it’s a more affordable way to get the curly maple look. For a darker version, see Roasted Curly Soft Maple, and for harder stock, see Curly Hard Maple.

Not listed in the CITES Appendices or on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Why We Love This Wood

The tight curl in some pieces of soft curly maple is just gorgeous.

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    Main Color GroupYellow / White
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    Avg Dry Weight - KG/M3610
    Janka Hardness - LBF950
    Janka Hardness - N4230
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