Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

This one surprised me.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

The wood was full of pleasant surprises. There was some splating. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. It is very pretty but prone to warp.

As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. I ve finally got around to turning so. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut.

Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. That is it warps. It was a challenge keeping the turning together. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years.

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. This is pretty impressive for firewood. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. I had this wood before i had a lathe.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat.

Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale.