Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

I ve finally got around to turning so.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

That is it warps. The wood was full of pleasant surprises. This is pretty impressive for firewood. I had this wood before i had a lathe.

It was a challenge keeping the turning together. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down.

I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut.

There was some splating. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. 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.

A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. 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.

As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks.

It is very pretty but prone to warp.