Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. There was some splating.

I had this wood before i had a lathe. I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern.

This one surprised me. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum.

It is very pretty but prone to warp. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. 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. It was a challenge keeping the turning together.

This is pretty impressive for firewood. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. That is it warps. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board.

The wood was full of pleasant surprises. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. This is pretty impressive for firewood. I ve finally got around to turning so.

I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago.