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Birdseye Maple Veneer
Hard maple carrying dense clusters of small conical "eyes" — a bright, energetic figure on a pale ground.
Unlike most other hardwoods, the sapwood of Hard Maple is most commonly used rather than its heartwood. Sapwood color ranges from nearly white, to an off-white cream color, sometimes with a reddish or golden hue. The heartwood tends to be a darker reddish brown. Birdseye Maple is a figure found most commonly in Hard Maple, though it's also found less frequently in other species. Hard Maple can also be seen with curly or quilted grain patterns.
Birdseye is hard maple — Acer saccharum — carrying dense clusters of tiny conical indentations that read as eyes scattered across a pale, bright ground. Nobody has settled why some sugar maples do it and their neighbors do not, which is part of why it cannot be grown to order.
It is almost always rotary-cut, because the eyes only open up fully when the knife peels around the log rather than slicing across it. That gives very wide leaves, which is useful, but it also means birdseye has no linear grain to match — you are matching a texture, not a stripe, and the usual book-match logic does not apply in the same way.
Eye density is the specification that matters, and it varies enormously: a sparse birdseye and a dense one look like different materials next to each other. Tell us which end of that range you want, and order the whole job at once so the density stays consistent across it. Available raw, two-ply, paper-backed, and pressed to panel.
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