Bird's eye figure

<h2 id="characteristics">Characteristics</h2>
<p>In most characteristics, wood with bird's eye figure is no different from the rest of the wood from the same tree. Depending on the frequency and radius<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> of the birdseye swirls, each 1⁄8 to 3⁄8 inch (0.32 to 0.95 cm) wide, the wood may be extremely valuable. While woodworkers prize the timber primarily for its use in <a href="/facts/Wood_veneer/HluaU5Yt">veneers</a>, it also turns well on a <a href="/facts/Lathe/FjF9FYLR">lathe</a>, allowing it to be shaped into decorative canes, chair legs, and handles.
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<h2 id="uses">Uses</h2>
<p>Bird's eye maple may be expensive, up to several times the cost of ordinary hardwood. It is used in refined specialty products, such as in automobile trim, both in solid form and veneer, boxes and bowls for jewelry, thin veneer, humidors, canes, furniture inlays, handles, guitars, bowed instruments, custom rifle stocks and pool cues are popular uses. Items made with this wood tend to be more expensive not only because the wood is more costly but because it is harder to work.  When working with bird's eye wood, it is advisable to take care in what tools are used, so as to prevent grain tearout. Also the more "eyes" lumber has, the weaker the wood tends to be.
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<h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<p> Media related to Bird's eye maple wood at Wikimedia Commons
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Ondich, Stephen. "Birdseye Maple Lumber". www.commercialforestproducts.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2019. <a href="https://www.commercialforestproducts.com/birdseye-maple-lumber/" target="_blank">https://www.commercialforestproducts.com/birdseye-maple-lumber/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Bird's eye figure