Marbled Sweet Gum Wood

The wood was full of pleasant surprises.

Marbled sweet gum wood.

Red gum and black gum are a lot different than sweet gum. This one surprised me. 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.

This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices and is reported by the iucn as being a species of least concern. It is very pretty but prone to warp. 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.

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. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to. Veneer plywood furniture speaker acoustic cabinets interior trim boxes crates and turned objects.

I had this wood before i had a lathe. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful.

We burned wood for heat for maybe 20 years. Sweet gum wood though has been another story. This is pretty impressive for firewood. This is pretty impressive for firewood.

I ve finally got around to turning so. It was a challenge keeping the turning together. As a result the wood shrinks lengthwise as well as every direction during drying. 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.