Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

The wood was full of pleasant surprises.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. There was some splating. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down.

It was a challenge keeping the turning together. 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. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. I ve finally got around to turning so.

Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat.

This is pretty impressive for firewood. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. That is it warps. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks.

This one surprised me. It is very pretty but prone to warp. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects.

Sweet gum wood though has been another story.