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I have a bunch of very nice quilted maple that I have considered using for bindings. I've used curly maple, but not quilted. I'm not sure if it bends as easily or would even look as nice.

Does anyone have any input or examples?

Steve

The quilted Maple I have bought was plain sawn to emphasize the quilt, so it should bend rather easily.
I have not tried it for binding.

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If the quilt figure is on the large side, you may not see the full effect of the figure
on a 1/4" or so wide binding. Most of the curly maple bindings that I've used have
about 1/8-1/4" spacing between the "curls". That shows up nicely on a binding. If
the quilt figure is 1/2-1" or bigger, I'd worry about seeing the full effect of the figure.
Best way is probably to slice off a small sample of binding sized pieces and see if you
like the effect.

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I think it would be fine
I would bend 6 pcs hoping for 4 good one

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I've never seen it done with Maple but I would do it. Someone posted a pic here of a guitar they did with quilted Sapele or Mahogany and it looked great. You could see the binding had some nice figure.

Use curly for binding. You will find that the quilting will be lost in the smaller scale of binding. Kind of a waste. It will still look good, but not quilted

Why not use the same method that one would use to determine best visual effect on a back set?
Some people place molds over the back plates to see firsthand how it's gonna look. Some draw outlines.

You can do the same thing with binding. If your binding strips are 1/4" wide, simply cover up the board so that only a long 1/4" wide section is showing.
Two rulers or other straightedge laid on top of the board and spaced a 1/4" apart will work. I've used black construction paper for better isolation/visual focus. Two strips of blue tape works very well and is quick.
Whatever you feel allows you to best focus on how the strip itself will appear once cut to that dimension.
This avoids cutting the wood, preserving the board if you decide you don't like the visual effect.

Do this on both the face and edge of the board. Binding is relatively narrow, so don't overlook using the edge of the board as the face of your binding. Depending on how the board is cut and the grade of the quilting, you could go from a quilted effect to a curly effect.

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Here is a photo of flamed maple on a walnut/redwood I build long ago.

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