Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

Gum from the american species is easily substituted.

Marbled sweet gum woodgrain.

Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. However this doesn t mean you can t use the wood. 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.

Sweet gum firewood use sweet gum is not a very popular firewood choice for a variety of different reasons. 6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum. 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.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. You don t have to be a woodworker to see the beauty in this kind of ebony. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. 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.

Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting. The spiny ball fruit is often painted silver or gold adorned with sequins or glitter and used for christmas tree decorations. Splitting sweet gum is without a doubt going to be a challenge. February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first.

You can ask most experts and they will tell you that splitting sweet gum is probably more difficult than splitting oak. I wasn t quite sure what t. Likely to be a two part series this beautiful chunk of louisiana sweet gum wood is actually an offcut from a large log section. Come check out gum creek board s handmade sweet gum flat grain cutting boards.