Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

That is it warps. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick.

The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. I ve finally got around to turning so. It is very pretty but prone to warp.

I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down. There was some splating. The wood was full of pleasant surprises.

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. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part.

I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago. It was a challenge keeping the turning together. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. I had this wood before i had a lathe.

This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern.