Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

It is very pretty but prone to warp.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down. It was a challenge keeping the turning together. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick.

The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. This one surprised me. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern.

I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat. 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. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years.

I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. 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. I ve finally got around to turning so. The wood was full of pleasant surprises.

That is it warps. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying.

This is pretty impressive for firewood. I had this wood before i had a lathe. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum.