Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

Sweet gum wood though has been another story.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. That is it warps. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

It was a challenge keeping the turning together. There was some splating. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago.

We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. The wood was full of pleasant surprises. This one surprised me. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects.

I had this wood before i had a lathe. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks.

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down. As for sweet gum wood you can rest assured that you are getting a fine burning wood because it is cable of producing 20 6 million btus per cord.

Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat.

A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick.