Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum.

Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. The wood was full of pleasant surprises. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. It is very pretty but prone to warp. That is it warps.

Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. There was some splating. I had this wood before i had a lathe.

As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. I ve finally got around to turning so. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

Sweet gum wood though has been another story. 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. This one surprised me. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum.