Is birdseye maple valuable?
Is birdseye maple valuable? Uses. Bird's eye maple may be expensive, up to several times the cost of ordinary hardwood. When working with bird's eye wood, it is advisable to take care in what tools are used, so as to prevent grain tearout. Also the more "eyes" there are in lumber, the weaker the wood tends to be. How do you identify bird's eye maple? Birdseye maple is an irregularly grained cultivar of the maple or Acer species, with an aberrant but beautiful grain pattern. Instead of the regular vertical and more linear grain of maple, birdseye has a rounded,...