Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

The wood was full of pleasant surprises.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern.

There was some splating. 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 is pretty impressive for firewood. Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

It was a challenge keeping the turning together. Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. That is it warps. I had this wood before i had a lathe. Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down.

This one surprised me. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. I ve finally got around to turning so. I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat.

Sweet gum wood though has been another story. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. 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.