Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

There was some splating. I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. This one surprised me.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

It was a challenge keeping the turning together. 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 wood though has been another story. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

I ve finally got around to turning so. It is very pretty but prone to warp. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years.

Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. I had this wood before i had a lathe. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum.

Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. That is it warps.

As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying.