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The classic American blonde, Hard Maple features creamy white sapwood with a reddish cast, and rugged durability. The wood has an exceptionally fine, even texture, and tight pores that yield an excellent finished surface. These thin boards are machined S4S to 1/8" and 1/4" thicknesses, eliminating wear and tear on your planer. You won’t have to worry about chipout, which is difficult to prevent when planing thin stock. Thin boards are ideal for edging, veneering, inlay, marquetry, sides for decorative boxes, bending stock, bent laminations and whatever else your imagination can dream up!
- Tree: May reach a height of 70 to 120 feet, with a 24 to 36 inch diameter trunk.
- Sapwood Color: White with a reddish cast.
- Heartwood Color: Uniformly pale reddish brown or light tan.
- Grain: Usually fairly straight, but can also be curly or wavy. Sometimes exhibits decorative figuring like bird's eye, maple burl, blister, leaf, and fiddleback.
- Texture: Very fine and even.
- Working properties: Due to hardness, tools must be kept very sharp.
- Carving: Responds well to carving tools.
- Steam bending properties: Fair.
- Strength Properties: Very high bending strength. Resistance to compression parallel to the grain is high. Hardness is rated as medium. It is heavy, and resists denting and marring. Hard Maple can be up to 25 percent harder than Soft Maple.
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Maple by the Piece
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Average Rating:
3.6
(5 customer reviews)
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1) Submitted by
Wes Garcia, from Sioux Falls, SD
on 7/3/2012
Customer Rating: 
Received my maple today in the post. It was well packed and of the highest quality. Very pleased with it. It will be used in some Christmas gifts. Thank you Rockler! !
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2) Submitted by
Jeff, from Charleston, WV
on 5/6/2009
Customer Rating: 
Good quality, only issue I have is with planing "chatter" on some pieces that still remained after light sanding prior to application of tung oil.
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3) Submitted by
Joe from NJ
on 3/17/2011
Customer Rating: 
Disappointing quality at a premium price. I ordered S4S and S2S lumber. Little regard was paid to packaging, the boards were left to rattle around along with a can of stain in a box much too big during shipment. The corner of the box ripped during shipment too. The result was a large number of dings and overall poor condition.
Customer service was friendly and helpful, and shipped a replacement order at no cost. The replacement order was definitely better but still not great. All the boards have areas of pits or indentations on the surface, I think this is what the earlier reviewer referred to as "chatter". They look like they have been struck with a bag of coins in certain areas. To get rid of these marks, I will have to do a lot more sanding than I wanted to.
The end result is that with backorder and replacements, it has taken me almost a month to get wood that is of disappointing quality. I am sure Rockler would take it back for a refund if I asked, they do have great customer service, but at this point I just want to start my project.
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4) Submitted by
Jeff, from Baltimore, MD
on 5/31/2011
Customer Rating: 
Boards were a little cupped but overall they were not bad. I would purchase from Rockler again. Shipping was fast and accurate.
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5) Submitted by
Carl Johnson, from Sturgeon Lake, MN
on 3/2/2008
Customer Rating:
Straight and clear nice swirly grain, I use this in my knife handles and it is of good quality was flatsawn. Shipped fast and packaged well with scrap wood to keep it form breaking during shipping.
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