Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks.

Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. I ve finally got around to turning so. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying.

Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. It was a challenge keeping the turning together. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to.

This is pretty impressive for firewood. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. 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. This one surprised me.

It is very pretty but prone to warp. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. There was some splating. Sweet gum wood though has been another story.

This is pretty impressive for firewood. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects.

This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern.