Ambrosia Maple Rare?

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David

>If I weren't already married...

I'm fairly new myself, and can't speak to the rarity of the wood, but I think it is a very pretty maple, and it turns a heck of a nice bowl.

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Shawn - in ID

>It's not rare but it is in high demand by turners. Get the wood!

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Gary Evans, Tallassee, TN

>LaVerne,

If he doesn't love you already, he should.

Get as much as you can. If it is pretty he will be blown away!

Gary

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LaVerne Williams

>I got lucky. He DOES love me, and check out what he's done with his "present" - roughed out, but soon to be stunning.

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Carole in VA

>Wow! Wish I had someone who loved me that much! Nice find.

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Pete in Holland, MI

>Is Ambrosia a type of maple, or a result of it starting decay? Have been wood working for many years, but only stumbled into the name once I started turning. Am turning some stuff from a branch picked up last weekend. Cross section looked like a paint "splat", for lack of better terms. Am headed off this week to pick up portions of the trunk (2' dia).

Woo - Woo ! Nice: Curly Ambrosia...

Brad Vietje

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LaVerne Williams

>Ellis taught me well... The "paint splats" are a result of the ambrosia beetle crawling into a diseased or dead maple tree. Fungus follows through the burrows, and the beetle lives off the fungus. I guess ANY maple can become "ambrosia" maple, as long as the beetles like it...

Hey, it's quilted too....!

tdaniel

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Re: Hey, it's quilted too....!

LaVerne Williams

>And how amusing is that, since my hobby (to counteract that of the woodturner) is, you guessed it, QUILTING. Ha.

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Ron in Drums PA

>Ambrosia is a bug, notice the bug tunnels. They make the stains.

Lurker chimes in *LINK*

Anthony

>Technically it's red maple (acer rubrum), "ambrosia" maples can red, silver and boxelder maples. Through some research I've found the insect is really the columbian timber beetle not the ambrosia beetle although ambrosia beetle is a generic term for many bark boring insects. The link below is a good source for information. A search for either insect wiil provide photos.

Now I'll go away again for a year or so!!

Anthony


http://www.forestryimages.org/

why double holes?

John K Jordan

>Why do I (almost) always see pairs of holes in the wood? Do the beatles travel in pairs (hard to belive) or bore their way back running parallel to a hole?

JKJ in East TN

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Anthony

>From what I understand, they're egg chambers.

Re: Lurker chimes in

Don Evans

>If both beetle's are the same thing, how come they have different scientific names on the web site you provided?

Don

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Don Evans

>Actually, the beetle in question, about 1/8" long, hard shelled and brown has a fungus that grows on it's outside. This fungus rubs off the shell as it goes through the woood and if conditions are right (moisture) then the fungus grows and produces the staining.

This information came from what I consider to be a reliable source, book, not a forum. Sorry, cannot remember the book.

Don

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Anthony

>They're not the same, the tree guy down the street calls everything "Them darn ambrosia beetles" but the scientist at the USDA knows the real names:)

Yummy!!!!

Jennifer@Indy.USA

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