To date he has created seven: Four Grain, Sonoma-Cutrer Finish, Sweet Mash, Seasoned Oak, Maple Wood Finish and Rare Rye.

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Liagre created a foldable travel desk made of maple wood and leather.

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It takes about a year to build a Steinway from 12, 000 components and eight different kinds of wood including maple, birch, spruce and poplar.

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The roofs of the stately wood buildings with detailed carvings sprouted from clusters of gingko and maple trees.

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The cheap Salvadoran bodegas in Columbia Heights are also mixing with upmarket wine bars, such as Maple, where hot young things eat delicate servings of pasta on a reclaimed wood bar.

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Its cherry veneer, framed with maple, is decorated with porcupine quillwork, more conventionally used to embellish hides or birch bark, not solid wood.

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