Finishing Tiger Maple Tips. The color of the wood will get darker the longer you keep the stain on. Knife making methods for building homemade custom hunting, camping, survival and every day carry (edc) knives. All, i'm looking to buy a new unfinished maple neck from allparts and i need some advice on what to use to finish it.
Flame maple (tiger maple), also known as flamed maple, curly maple, ripple maple, fiddleback or tiger stripe, is a feature of maple in which the growth of the wood fibers is distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern, producing wavy lines known as flames.
They can make tiger maple challenging to work due to the constant shifts in grain direction, but the results. It is the w2 choji blade that i had up for sale awhile ago. Curly maple figuring is similar to quilted maple, but curl is a primarily horizontal pattern perpendicular to the wood grain. Staining/finishing of tiger maple ? scroll skill summons the guardian of mt. Browse our online gallery today. I was talking to my dad today and he suggested that i use one or the other, but not both because tung oil is actually a finishing product and will seal the wood for me. Now, having become a professional in woodworking he is now sharing his woodworking tips via youtube.com, his woodworking webpage.