Rock Maple (Acer saccharum)
From the hardness of rock maple to the easier to work soft maple or the almost translucent, porcelain coloured grain of Japanese maple, and from the springiness of skateboards to the hardness of bowling alley floors, maples are characterized as being the timber of hardness and resilience. Apart from soft maple, which has a more distinctive wavy and warmer, reddish tinge, most maples are typified and easy to spot due to an even, creamy-white texture.
The use of the extremely hard, crisp, even texture of creamy-white maple allows for the surface of these knives to be extended beyond traditional wooden handles. The knives are dominated less by the steel and more by natural grain of the wood. The use of maple in these ...
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