Flame stripe maple?

[Turtle]

  What does this mean? What does it look like?  How is it different from tiger stripe? Is there another name for it?
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[Nordnecker]

There are lots of words used to describe woodgrain- Flame, Quilted, Birdseye, Fiddleback, Tiger, Curly, etc. It's open to interpretation, and some of these terms overlap. Call 'em as you see 'em.

[Eric Krewson]

This is a mix of birds eye and flame as near as I can tell.

[smallpatch]

Not chiseled in stone of course, but the flame figure is usually found more in sugar maple than red.  Not sure why, or if it's totally true.  But it has been my experience.

[FrontierMuzzleloading]

man that birds eye pattern is nice! 

I think it'd look a bit better with a reddish tint though, just really make it pop out at you.

[okawbow]

This is what I think of as flamed hard maple. This is a "boys rifle", I built in 1976.  The whole stock is pretty much like that.

SANY0054 by okawbow, on Flickr

[Turtle]

 beautiful, where can I get a stock like that?
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[okawbow]

A friend from Ohio cut down a tree in his yard. He got dozens of stock blanks from it. All had figure like that one. He gave me that blank because it had a split part way up the fore stock. I made a rifle with a 30" barrel, to eliminate the split. He still had dozens of blanks left when he died suddenly, but his son got them.

[Daryl]

Is this flame? or burl maple

[okawbow]

Looks like what I would call flamed. I don't think you could find a burl large enough to make a gunstock that long very easily. Burls are growths on the sides of trees, not a type of wood grain exactly. You might have one side of a tree that has a burl growth long enough to get a rifle stock, but the grain is crazy interlocking swirls, and often has bark inclusions.

[smallpatch]

Jim Kibler has a burl stocked fowler on his site that is AMAZING!!!

[Ky-Flinter]

This is what I would call "flame", aka quilted.



Curly, aka Tiger striped



-Ron

[Daryl]

Looks like what I would call flamed. I don't think you could find a burl large enough to make a gunstock that long very easily. Burls are growths on the sides of trees, not a type of wood grain exactly. You might have one side of a tree that has a burl growth long enough to get a rifle stock, but the grain is crazy interlocking swirls, and often has bark inclusions.

The burl on this stock is in the butt, as with most stocks with burl. The rest of the rifle, to me, is tiger striped, curly maple or perhaps flame, perhaps.

Flame and quilted are very close, I think.

[Shreckmeister]

This is what I would call "flame", aka quilted.



Curly, aka Tiger striped



-Ron

That's how I think of it too.  Those are both great pieces of wood.

[hanshi]

This is what I think of when I hear "flame grain".

[kaintuck]

ron........that flame piece makes my eyes hurt

marc n tomtom