1/4" Hard White Maple Thin Craft Hobby Boards (Choose Your Size)
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1/4" Hard White Maple Thin Craft Hobby Boards (Choose Your Size)
Known for its durability and strength. It has excellent turning properties , a fine, even texture, a natural luster. Somewhat difficult to work due to high surface hardness. Paints and finishes very well
Easy Size!Hobby boards make it easy to get started on your project. They're perfectly sized to nominal 1/4x2 and 1/4x4 boards with clean, straight edges and smooth faces. They're lovingly milled from kiln dried, Select & Better lumber so you get gorgeous, clear, ready-to-use wood.
What Size Is This?
| Thickness | 1/4" (≈ 1/4" approx) |
| Width | 1.5", 3.5" |
| Length | 18", 36" |
| Grade | Select & Better |
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Weight
3.67
lbs /Bd. Ft.
2.51% heavier than red oak (3.58 /bd. ft.)
General Workability
Wood Texture
Ease of Finishing
Wood Texture
Ease of Finishing
Hard White Maple is a domestic wood from North America
Nothing else compares to hard maple's alluring combo of clean white color, smooth grain, and incredible strength.
Color Range
Creamy white to yellowish or pale tan.
Creamy white to yellowish or pale tan.
What's The Tree Like?
Produces sweet sap used to make maple syrup. Matures at heights of 90-120 feet with a trunk 24-36".
Produces sweet sap used to make maple syrup. Matures at heights of 90-120 feet with a trunk 24-36".
Other Names
Hard maple, Rock maple, Sugar maple, White Maple
Hard maple, Rock maple, Sugar maple, White Maple
Some Typical Uses
Furniture, flooring, cutting boards, butcher blocks, heavy furniture, industrial parts, veneer, inlay, musical instruments, work benches
Furniture, flooring, cutting boards, butcher blocks, heavy furniture, industrial parts, veneer, inlay, musical instruments, work benches
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