Butcher Block Acoustics Maple Audio Platform
Most, if not all, high-end audio components emit a signal that causes unwanted vibration. Our hardwood platforms absorb and dissipate that energy.
HARDWOOD SPECIES : Rock Hard Sugar Maple
TYPES STOCKED: Edge-grain 1½" Thick STOCK
FINISH: Hand-sprayed “furniture style” Durakryl 102TM - state of the art non-toxic urethane finish. VOC-free.
AIR DRIED, THEN KILN DRIED: After spending a great deal of time air drying, our hardwood then spends a short period of time in the safe and controlled environment of a kiln. Moisture content is key - kiln drying is a scientific process that SLOWLY removes just the right amount of moisture from the ENTIRE piece of wood – edges and center.
KILN DRIED HARDWOOD USERS: Steinway & Sons, Yamaha, Martin, Gibson, Fender, Rickenbacker all turn to the safe and scientific process of kiln drying. Professional kiln drying does NOT weaken the wood’s fibers.
SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING: Our forest stewardship team manages company-owned tracts of land. With sensible harvesting and managed re-growth, we give back to the land what we take.
CARBON NEUTRAL FOOTPRINT: There is no increase in carbon emissions due to the manufacturing of Butcher Block. The carbon released by our product, when finally disposed of, equals only what the tree would have released in its lifecycle.
NO WOOD WASTE: The scrap and sawdust generated in the production process is burned to heat our manufacturing plants.
MINIMALLY PROCESSED: Relative to many complex highly processed materials, solid hardwood Butcher Block requires less energy to produce.
EXTENDED PRODUCT LIFECYCLE: In a disposable world, Butcher Block will last a lifetime.
JIM WHITHORNE - OWNER
Jim Whithorne has spent the past 43 years selling Butcher Block for the Wood Welded Companies. But music is in his DNA.
Jim’s great-grandfather was Emerson Whithorne, a notable American composer and researcher into the history of music. Emerson Whithorne (1884-1958, born in Cleveland, OH, a distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson) fell into the classification of the "American Impressionists" group of composers, with Charles Tomlison Griffes and John Alden Carpenter. He had a reputation as an authority on the music of China. Whithorne lived for a period in London, staying until 1915.
And equally amazing, Jim’s great-grandmother was Ethel Leginska.
Ethel was a British pianist, composer, conductor and music educator. She was a student of Theodor Leschetizky later studying composition with Rubin Goldmark and Ernest Bloch, and conducting with Eugene Goossens, Robert Heger and Gennaro Papi. Among her students were pianist and harpsichordist Gavin Williamson, James Henry Fields, Daniel Pollack and Bruce Sutherland.
She was a pioneer of women's opportunity in music performance and conducting, being the first woman to conduct many of the world's leading orchestras.
Jim’s great-grandparents sat behind the piano and made great music. Whereas, Jim earnestly sells the wood that makes a great piano.
Specifications:
Wood Species: Rock Hard Sugar Maple
Janka Hardness Scale Score: 1450
Lamination: Edge-grain
Edge Type: Square
Finish: Durakryl 102™
Made in the USA
Includes Integrated Threaded Brass Inserts - M6
