Ripple logs

[Rich Rule]

Thanks for the 3 theories.

[Mr. Ed]

Here’s my entry in the “longest death” thread resuscitation competition. 
 

I just sort-of read a paper about fiddleback figure in sycamore which concluded that there’s a very large genetic element which can be selected for in the nursery.
 

Growth performance and wood structure of wavy grain sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) in a progeny trial | Annals of Forest Science | Full Text

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• Key message Wavy grain, a rare figure type of wood, leads to highly priced timber in Acer pseudoplatanus L. The influence...

 

They acknowledge that this will depress the values. As to legends of value there is some truth to them: “Although this figure deviates from normal straight grain, it often greatly enhances the value of the wood making wavy grained A. pseudoplatanus one of the most highly priced timbers on the market. Maple logs with a regular, well-developed wavy grain structure are usually sold at auction sales, so-called submissions, often for more than the tenfold price of similar logs with straight grain. In Germany, wavy grained sycamore maple regularly achieve prices over 10,000 Euro per log, e.g., 12,100 Euro at the submission Waging in 2017 (Bäucker and Liesebach 2018) and 19,602 Euro (equivalent to 7748 Euro per m³wood) in Jesberg in 2017 (HessenForst 2017).”