
Scale Length: 19.0 inches, Overall Instrument Length: 28.5 inches, Body Length: 12.625 inches, Number of Frets: 18, Width at Upper Bout: 7.0 inches, Width at Lower Bout: 10.0 inches, Width at Waist: 5.9375 inches, Body Depth: 3.0 inches, Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1.5 inches, Fingerboard width at 12th Fret: 2. Kala Elite Archtop Hard Case & Music Nomad Humilele Kala Elite Brown Fluorocarbon by Worth with Low G

We pride ourselves on the exceptional quality of our wood products and service and back them with a money back guarantee Money back Guarantee of Satisfaction. All maple sold is Eastern Red Maple unless indicated otherwise. Kala Chrome Closed Gear with Black Buttons All lumber is custom picked to insure wood quality, the best of figure and is kiln dried 6 to 8 moisture content. Bag and Case Informationįits ALL Kala BARITONE sized bags and cases Specs Size: The Tenor XL has a deeper and warmer sound and resonance due to its increased lower bout size. The longer neck has a 19” scale length and better fits the wider lower bout and longer body of the Tenor XL. Our Tenor XL models come with a longer neck and have a longer body and a wider lower bout than our traditional Tenor ukulele. These muted, natural colors let the wood speak for itself…until you play it…then this ukulele will surprise you with the most commanding, clear, bright sound with even harmonics. and go by names such as Red Maple (Acer rebrum) and Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum). Our Big Leaf Maple Tenor XL has contrasting Koa binding, rosette, headplate, and heel cap in a satin finish. Insights and perspectives for the hardwood lumber industr. It does machine, sand and finish very well though.Going against the grain is literally what gives Flame Maple its beautiful perpendicular, undulating, almost iridescent stripes. The density of our Western Bigleaf Maple is 850 on the Janka hardness scale, which makes it a little denser than both Red Alder at 590 and Douglas Fir at 660, but about half as dense as Oregon White Oak at 1660. This fast growth makes for a relatively soft wood though. Since maple is fast growing for a hardwood and its optimal harvest age is between 75-100 years, we produce a lot of it at Zena. The center of the tree will start to turn a dark red, and will eventually show blackline spalt, as it continues to decay. This is what creates much of the amazing color that you see in our maple lumber. This slow decay from the inside out has its benefits though. Browse our ever-changing selection of Western Maple Burl exotic wood boards and hand-pick the one that suits your needs PRODUCT. The center will continue to rot until there is just a hollow shell left, and eventually the tree can no longer support the massive form. It is rare for a Maple to stay standing for more than 120 years. Once they pass 75 years or so, the center of the tree will start to decay. Most all of the forest of Western Europe were coppiced in order to create large volumes of wood charcoal before the discovery of coal.Īll of this vigorous early growth means that Maples don’t live to be all that old. Coppicing can yield up to 7 times the growth that you can get from traditional replanting methods. The tree can produce many different types of figure, including quilted (tubular, popcorn, & cloud), curly (fiddleback, broken, & basketweave), and burl. It has the distinction of having the largest leaf of the Maples-up to 15' in diameter. The result is that 10 years after being cut, a stump can have twenty or more new trunks all over 5” in diameter. This tree is native to the Pacific Northwest. The stump sprouts will grow incredibly fast, because they can immediately utilize the existing root structure of the old stump. Bigleaf maple is a commercially important hardwood timber for the United States’ west coast, where it is virtually the only commercial maple species in the region. Coppice is an age old forest management tradition that works on certain trees that will sprout back their stumps. 4/4 Quilted Maple Pack : 750. 4/4 Quilted Maple Short Pack : 180.00: ADD TO CART Kiln Dried and abrasive surfaced on both faces 15/16' thick 3 ft to 6 ft lengths 4' and up widths : 100 B.F.

This fast growth can be sped up even more by coppicing. Quilted Maple Lumber (Western Bigleaf) 20 B.F. It can even outgrow the notoriously fast growing Douglas Fir in its younger years. It is also the most vigorous tree in the forest. It can grow well under the towering Douglas Fir, and it grows equally well side by side with the Oregon White Oak. Maple is also a friendly tree and gets along with its neighbors well.
