On Jan 25, 4:13 pm, Joe wrote:
I bought some bowling alley 'wood' on eBay from a chap in Indiana a
few days ago. It's about as far from the forest as anything I've seen.
It makes Pergo look like some kind of cardboard by comparison. The
stuff is a tough plastic laminate lithographed like maple on both
sides.

Supposedly some alleys have switched to this stuff, but some (most?)
do still use real maple.