Post The Most Outrageous 3d Tops Thread

[9956]

Post those amazing pictures here guys, I will start with my personal favourite. Please feel free to post more than one, lets make this a proper feast of maple porn

Quilted maple, looks like flame.

[Maiden69]

[Mattia]

Quilted maple, looks like flame.

That's called curly maple, p'haps, but it ain't quilt. Quilt's a figure, not a species.

Still, damn nice piece of wood.

[Maiden69]

Quilted maple, looks like flame.

That's called curly maple, p'haps, but it ain't quilt. Quilt's a figure, not a species.

Still, damn nice piece of wood.

I'm under the impretion that Curly and flamed is the same figure... Quilted is lie mine. Even this one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Maiden69/DSC02223.jpg still flamed maple. And the figure is a bit bigger than traditionaly seen on guitars

[Pr3Va1L]

PRS Private Stock single cut:

And another one: Private stock McCarthy

Edited March 3, 2006 by Pr3Va1L

[Duff Beer Man]

Curly and flamed are the same quilt, just over time industry has come up with different terms for it. If you do a search on ebay for quilted maple instead of flamed you get more results because quilted is the older term so more people know it as that. Here is my contrabution to this thread.

[Mattia]

Curly and flamed are the same quilt, just over time industry has come up with different terms for it. If you do a search on ebay for quilted maple instead of flamed you get more results because quilted is the older term so more people know it as that. Here is my contrabution to this thread.

That's certianly not my understanding. I believe it goes something like this (although it's certainly not always used this way): the amount of curl refers to the amount of figure in the wood, regardless of the type of figure. You've then got quilted figure (only found in Western Bigleaf maple, never in hard maples), which comes out best in a slab cut (IIRC), you've got flamed (which is that first pic, essentially, although that's a flame that's quite unique to western bigleaf, and I usually see it referred to as curly; see curlymaple.com, f'r instance) which comes out best in a quarter cut; within flame (which occurs in both hard and soft maples) you can differentiate between tiger (wide bands of flame) and fiddleback (which is the tighter curl you see on, you guessed it, many a fiddle). I'm not sure if I'm getting the usage of 'curl' and 'flame' confused here, though; it is messy.

However, that quilt refers to a specific type of pattern found in bigleaf maple (and some other woods, like Sapele, from time to time) is certain, and it's different from a flame look.

[marksound]

Agreeing with Mattia, I've always heard/read that curl refers to figure and flame or quilt refers to type of figure.

Yanno, with the amount of figured maple we see around here, I'm surprised no one has done a tribute.

[signguy]

Curly and flamed are the same quilt, just over time industry has come up with different terms for it. If you do a search on ebay for quilted maple instead of flamed you get more results because quilted is the older term so more people know it as that. Here is my contrabution to this thread.

That's certianly not my understanding. I believe it goes something like this (although it's certainly not always used this way): the amount of curl refers to the amount of figure in the wood, regardless of the type of figure. You've then got quilted figure (only found in Western Bigleaf maple, never in hard maples), which comes out best in a slab cut (IIRC), you've got flamed (which is that first pic, essentially, although that's a flame that's quite unique to western bigleaf, and I usually see it referred to as curly; see curlymaple.com, f'r instance) which comes out best in a quarter cut; within flame (which occurs in both hard and soft maples) you can differentiate between tiger (wide bands of flame) and fiddleback (which is the tighter curl you see on, you guessed it, many a fiddle). I'm not sure if I'm getting the usage of 'curl' and 'flame' confused here, though; it is messy.

However, that quilt refers to a specific type of pattern found in bigleaf maple (and some other woods, like Sapele, from time to time) is certain, and it's different from a flame look.

Yes, the quilted maple patterns are wider and look more like a quilt or tortoise shell pattern, whereas the flamed or curly maple look more linear, lines more so than shapes. As for the species issue, not sure.

[Sugaree23663]

Quilted, curly, I'm in lust with any of them!

[Scott Rosenberger]

Here's my 7 string RG

Edited March 3, 2006 by Scott Rosenberger

[Scott Rosenberger]

and my Custom 22 (Which is for Sale 1400)

[Scott Rosenberger]

and my Carvin

Carvin CT6

[Daniel Sorbera]

My quilted maple double cut

[Duff Beer Man]

Curly and flamed are the same quilt, just over time industry has come up with different terms for it. If you do a search on ebay for quilted maple instead of flamed you get more results because quilted is the older term so more people know it as that. Here is my contrabution to this thread.

That's certianly not my understanding. I believe it goes something like this (although it's certainly not always used this way): the amount of curl refers to the amount of figure in the wood, regardless of the type of figure. You've then got quilted figure (only found in Western Bigleaf maple, never in hard maples), which comes out best in a slab cut (IIRC), you've got flamed (which is that first pic, essentially, although that's a flame that's quite unique to western bigleaf, and I usually see it referred to as curly; see curlymaple.com, f'r instance) which comes out best in a quarter cut; within flame (which occurs in both hard and soft maples) you can differentiate between tiger (wide bands of flame) and fiddleback (which is the tighter curl you see on, you guessed it, many a fiddle). I'm not sure if I'm getting the usage of 'curl' and 'flame' confused here, though; it is messy.

However, that quilt refers to a specific type of pattern found in bigleaf maple (and some other woods, like Sapele, from time to time) is certain, and it's different from a flame look.

Yes, the quilted maple patterns are wider and look more like a quilt or tortoise shell pattern, whereas the flamed or curly maple look more linear, lines more so than shapes. As for the species issue, not sure.

I stand corrected then, sorry guys i must of got the wrong info some where down the line. Btw scott love the RG buy whatever happened to the two necked jem?

[VanKirk]

Hard to top that first one! (pun intended )...

but here's my entries anyways- Blue flame &

[Guest AlexVDL]

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[Scott Rosenberger]

Btw scott love the RG but whatever happened to the two necked jem?

Patience Grasshopper

[MOJO]

Here are my 2 Thorns

Quilt maple

and combo of Quilt and birdeye together

[Myka Guitars]

Here's my favorite flame top:

Here's one of my older guitars with a nice quilt top: #025

Here's another quilt top: #016

And here is a new one that should be even more intense when it is stained: #046

~David

[Nitefly SA]

i just saw that that was a hammer head shark, im an idiot

[MOJO]

i just saw that that was a hammer head shark, im an idiot

i've always been a big shark nut ,we just gave a little tribal design to give it some zing... , here's how the rest turned out

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/MOJO...RS/c88b6ffc.jpg

[smileynumber13]

Alembic Guitars Skylark

http://www.alembic.com

[Mattia]

Them's some wicked beautiful guitars...although that 'quilt and bridseye' combo looks more like burl to me. Whatever it is, it is gorgeous.

[thewrathofraf]

MOJO that is seriously an incredible guitar. I am obsessed with sharks and I am in school to study them currently. I wich I woulda thought of that when I built my 7-string. But simply incredible....

-RAF