Applications: Furniture, panelling, veneer and plywood, gymnastics equipment, inner layers for tennis rackets, parquet floors (hard maple floors), sports floors, pressure rollers for textile manufacturing, mangle rollers, sculpture, turning and carving, chess pieces and checkers, household articles, kitchen utensils (spoons, brushes, etc.), frames, knobs and handles, rulers, shovel handles, shoe heels and musical instruments (corrugated maple is used for the backs of violins). The veneer processed into panels, especially with beautiful patterns such as appled, mottled, flowered and corrugated, is very suitable for panelling. Due to the scarcity of beech in North America, maple is used there for applications for which beech is used in Europe.