A couple of friends bought an old farm house in Kentucky a few years ago. The farmer across the road from them bulldozed some trees out of his pasture, and my friend asked if he could cut them up for firewood. Not long after that, he called me saying he'd found curly maple in the pile of firewood trees and asking how to process the logs. He's a luthier too so he knew the utility of curly maple. Finally, he concluded that he didn't have the time or space to deal with the logs, so I traded him some red spruce guitar tops for the logs and worked them up for instrument wood.
Here's one of the logs loaded onto another friends sawmill ready to be quartered. I never saw the trees, only the logs. I'm over 99% sure it's silver maple (Acer saccharinum) from the looks of the bark, the fast growth rate, and the large amount of white wood.
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