Does rock maple = quarter sawn maple?

[cardinal]

Hi guys:

I searched around and couldn't find anything. I have a grand am lam with a perfectly flat sawn maple neck that's ridiculously stable. When you order rock maple on a new Anderson, is it flat sawn by default? Or is it quarter sawn?

Thanks!

[tom]

we buy flat sawn maple. when we use mahogany we use quartersawn. maple is so dense and so stable that i have not found an advantage to quartersawn. in fact, in the early days we did both and had more failures with quartersawn so i stopped buying it.
mahogany on the other hand is stiffer when quartered so we use it there.