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soft maple

n.
The wood of any of several maples, such as a red maple or a silver maple, being less hard and lighter in color than hard maple.
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Kiln dried lumber of red oak (Quercus rubra L), black gum (Nyssa sylvatica Z), soft maple (Acer rubrum L), hard maple (Acer saccharum L), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa L), and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb) Franco) were obtained and cut into 25 by 25 by 400-mm-long beams that were free of knots, stains, or other defects.
We're talking about soft maple, silver maple and white birch.
From this pure syrup, which is filtered and sterilized before being poured into containers, are made: maple sugar, maple butter, soft maple sugar candy, and maple taffy--all appreciated products that the tourist takes back as a souvenir of Canada.
As a test, we put some cherry and soft maple panels through the machine and hand sanded them to remove the scratch pattern.
902,758.44 8" McCobb legs, soft maple (tablelegs.com) 4 Angle top plate for legs (tablelegs.com) 4 4' x 8' x 3/4" birch plywood 1 Birch iron-on edge banding 25' No.
When surveying the furniture, one can find reproductions made from wood used in Colonial times - cherry, walnut, soft maple, birch and mahogany, replete with traditional accents such as ball and claw feet, Flemish scrolls and rosettes.
Henry and Steele had set up a routine checkpoint on the bridge between upper and lower Soft Maple Reservoir.
In the lumber industry, the tree is known as soft maple. The close-grained wood resembles sugar maple but has a softer texture, is not as heavy, and has somewhat poorer machining qualities.
stellate]); hard maple (primarily sugar maple [Acer saccharum]); soft maple (primarily red maple [A.
* Pacific maple goes by a variety of terms, among them big leaf maple and Oregon maple, but is also known as soft maple.
Primary Species Used in Component Products as a percent of total sales 2011 2012 2013 Red Oak 20.5% 22.8% 25.0% Hard Maple 16.6% 21.2% 17.6% Soft Maple 9.7% 12.9% 8.9% Cherry 11.0% 8.6% 7.9% Poplar 8.1% 8.2% 7.3% Birch 3.6% 5.6% 6.4% Beech 4.8% 4.5% 5.4% Note: Table made from bar graph.