Wasting Curly Maple

[Willemjm]

When you buy paint grade Maple in the rough for $1.80 a foot and it all ends up being Curly Maple which will be painted white.

 

[mdbuntyn]

So sad...

 

[chris_goris]

You couldnt cherry pick it out?

 

[Jeff]

paint grade Maple in the rough for $1.80 a foot and it all ends up being Curly Maple

Where did you buy this wood for $1.80/linear foot or $1.80/board foot? A revealing discovery on your part-ghastly?

 

[Willemjm]

Where did you buy this wood for $1.80/linear foot or $1.80/board foot? A revealing discovery on your part-ghastly?

Wholesale.
The distributor called me with a deal, $1.80 per bf paint grade from a mill in rough if I take the whole lot. Seemed to be in storage for some time, so oxidized skin, meaning I only found out it is curly once I started pushing it over the jointer. Some really pretty stuff.

 

[Jeff]

You got a sweet deal on that! It'd be a shame to paint it.

 

[mquan01]

Blaphsemy (or however its spelled)

 

[Bear Republic]

It would be less evil to buy some plain Maple to paint...... . That wood is beautiful

 

[Gotcha6]

I agree. I'd set that lumber aside for a more deserving project and get some poplar or alder.
Some years back I did an upfit for a doctor's office. When I received the doors, all birch veneer, we had one door that was curly with huge stripes in it. It was a 'tiger stripe' to my way of thinking. After staining and varnishing it, the doctor's wife insisted the we replace it. I was appalled at her lack of knowledge of the rarity of such a finish.

 

[Oka]

Evil Doers .......... Insulting the Wood Gods......... but then, today I used teak wood to block out a HVAC unit since it was the only wood I had on hand ........ oh the shame ...

 

[cskipper]

EEK! Can we come buy it from you? That way you wouldn't have to feel guilty about painting it.

 

[bbrown]

Don't you dare paint that
Save it or sell it for 4x the cost.