Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting.

Marbled sweet gum woodgrain.

Come check out gum creek board s handmade sweet gum flat grain cutting boards. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. You can ask most experts and they will tell you that splitting sweet gum is probably more difficult than splitting oak.

February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first. Likely to be a two part series this beautiful chunk of louisiana sweet gum wood is actually an offcut from a large log section. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. Disclaimer we classify dark boards as containing more.

Gum from the american species is easily substituted. This is because when sweet gum wood. In fact sweet gum will produce approximately 20 6 million btu s per. Sweet gum firewood use sweet gum is not a very popular firewood choice for a variety of different reasons.

However this doesn t mean you can t use the wood. I wasn t quite sure what t. The spiny ball fruit is often painted silver or gold adorned with sequins or glitter and used for christmas tree decorations. 6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum.

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. You can uniquely personalize them by choosing an engraving from our catalog. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. 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.