Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut.

Marbled sweet gum woodgrain.

Sawing and drying sweet gum sweet gum is a troublesome wood to work with because of its tendency to twist and move but the effort can be worth it for some uses. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Likely to be a two part series this beautiful chunk of louisiana sweet gum wood is actually an offcut from a large log section. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup.

This is because when sweet gum wood. The spiny ball fruit is often painted silver or gold adorned with sequins or glitter and used for christmas tree decorations. You can ask most experts and they will tell you that splitting sweet gum is probably more difficult than splitting oak. Disclaimer we classify dark boards as containing more.

Wide sapwood is whitish to light pink or tan color and is sometimes referred to as sapgum or sweetgum heartwood is gray to reddish brown and is commonly referred to as redgum i turned some small. Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting. February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first. In fact sweet gum will produce approximately 20 6 million btu s per.

Marbled macassar ebony wood veneer this category of marble figure ebony has a breath taking arrangement of light and dark streaks that few other wood veneers can match. I wasn t quite sure what t. You don t have to be a woodworker to see the beauty in this kind of ebony. 6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum.

Gum from the american species is easily substituted. Splitting sweet gum is without a doubt going to be a challenge. Come check out gum creek board s handmade sweet gum flat grain cutting boards. However this doesn t mean you can t use the wood.