What these boards want to become
Projects other makers have built from spalted maple, grouped by which of our slabs would suit them. Every link goes to someone else's build — steal the idea, not the wood.
Live edge dining tables & bar tops
Best from the 98" × 19" × 2" slabs
Two eight-footers joined down the middle give you a 38-inch-wide dining top with book-matched spalt lines running the full length. One slab on steel legs makes a bar top or a hall console.
Epoxy river tables
Any 2" slab — pair two, pour between
Spalted maple is the classic river-table species: the black zone lines read like ink against a tinted pour, and the pale sapwood makes almost any resin color work. Rip the straight edges, face the live edges inward, and pour.
Floating shelves, mantels & headboards
The 98" × 19" × 1" boards
An eight-foot one-inch board rips into two or three deep floating shelves with the live edge kept on the front. Same board makes a fireplace mantel with length to spare, or a headboard panel for a queen bed.
Coffee tables, desks & benches
The 55" × 17" studio boards
Fifty-five inches is the sweet spot for a coffee table, an entry bench, or a small writing desk — big enough to be the centerpiece of a room, small enough to finish in a weekend on a home shop's tools.
Small work: guitars, boards & boxes
Offcuts and the 55" × 17" × 1" boards
Spalt is prized for instrument tops, jewelry boxes, serving boards and lidded vessels. A single one-inch studio board yields a stack of cutting-board blanks or a guitar body with figure nobody else has.
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