Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

Turning a sweet gum tree we had taken down.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

Sweet gum woods sounds like something out of a fairy tale. That is it warps. It is very pretty but prone to warp. Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum.

It was a challenge keeping the turning together. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects. This is pretty impressive for firewood. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. I had this wood before i had a lathe. I picked up quite a few pieces of this wood off of craigslist nearly 7 years ago.

A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick. This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. Because come winter these woods in tai tong hong kong transform themselves into truly magical and breathtaking the leaves on the sweet gum. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

I kept some sweet gum for when we wanted to keep the fire going but didn t want any heat. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. I ve finally got around to turning so. We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years.

I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. 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. The wood was full of pleasant surprises.

As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying.