larry merlau
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ok Frank Fusco prompted this question... i know that in my parts we have both soft and hard maple,, the soft maple is SOFT yet harder than pine. the HARD is hard and i mean real hard. yu can dent soft maple with thumb nail but you gonna break your nail on hard maple.. our hard maple is basically a sugar maple. so for you research types,, what species are rated as hard and what are soft...??? frank has alot arkansas maple and he says his is hard.. we have silver maple and its soft. so how do you distingush it in boards and tree form?