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Silver mapleSilver maple
Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

Family: Aceraceae

Common names: Silver maple, Soft maple, White maple

Distributed in: Canada, United States (North America)

Distribution overview: The range of silver maple extends from New Brunswick in Canada, westerly to northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota; then south to southeastern South Dakota and eastern Oklahoma; east to northern Georgia; and back north through western South Carolina and western North Carolina to Maine.It is found in northwestern Florida on the Apalachicola and Choctawhatchee rivers but is not otherwise found on the Gulf or Atlantic Coastal Plain.Silver maple is a dominant canopy species only in streamside communities and lake fringes, and occasionally in swamps, gullies, and small depressions of slow drainage.

Common uses: Boxes and crates, Building materials, Casks, Chairs, Chests, Concealed parts (Furniture), Core Stock, Desks, Dining-room furniture, Dowell pins, Dowells, Drawer sides, Fine furniture, Floor lamps, Furniture , Furniture components, Furniture squares or stock, Hatracks, Interior construction, Kitchen cabinets, Living-room suites, Office furniture, Packing cases, Pallets, Paneling , Pulp/Paper products, Pulpwood, Radio - stereo - TV cabinets, Rustic furniture, Stools, Tables , Truck bodies, Utility furniture, Vehicle parts, Veneer, Wainscotting, Wardrobes

Product sources: Silver maple, which is one of the three commercially valuable soft maples, is readily available and inexpensive.

Environment profile: Widespread

Tree size: Tree height is 20-30 m

Colors: the heart isPurple, Redand the sapwoodWhite, Whitish.The grain isWavy, the textureFine

Natural durability: Non-durable, Perishable

Odor: No specific smell or taste

Kiln Schedules: 8 - D4 (4/4) T6 - C3 (8/4) U

Drying Defects: Ring failure, Wet wood causes most defects.

Ease of Drying: Fairly Easy

Boring: Responds well to boring

Gluing: Fairly difficult to glue

Mortising: Poor to Very Poor

Moulding: Very poor (25+% of pieces will yield good to excellent )

Movement in Service: Very poor (25+% of pieces will yield good to excellent )

Nailing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy, Satisfactory nailing properties

Planing: Poor to Very Poor

Resistance to Impregnation: Resistant sapwood

Sanding: Poor to Very Poor Results

Steam bending: Fairly Easy to Very Easy

Screwing: Fairly Easy to Very Easy, Satisfactory screwing characteristics; Turning: Good results


  • Numerical data Metric
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Item Green Dry Metric
Specific Gravity 0,37 0,35
Density kg/m3
Bending Strength 399 613 kg/cm2
Crushing Strength 25 50 kg/cm2
Hardness 311 kg
Impact Strength 71 63 cm
Shearing Strength 101 kg/cm2
Stiffness 64 78 1000 kg/cm2
Tangential Shrinkage 7 %
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Weight kg/m3
Maximum Load 0,56 0,77 cm-kg/cm3
Toughness cm-kg
Static Bending kg/cm2
Item Green Dry English
Bending Strength 5684 8722 psi
Crushing Strength 363 725 psi
Hardness 686 lbs
Impact Strength 28 25 inches
Maximum Crushing Strength 2440 5116 psi
Shearing Strength 1450 psi
Stiffness 921 1117 1000 psi
Work to Maximum Load 8 11 inch-lbs/in3
Specific Gravity 0.37 0.35
Radial Shrinkage 3 %
Tangential Shrinkage 7 %
Volumetric Shrinkage 12 %

Surfaces may dent or scratch easily
Crushing strength = low
Bending strength (MOR) = medium

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