Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

Sawing and drying sweet gum sweet gum is a troublesome wood to work with because of its tendency to twist and move but the effort can be worth it for some uses.

Marbled sweet gum woodgrain.

Sweet gum wood though has been another story. However this doesn t mean you can t use the wood. In fact sweet gum will produce approximately 20 6 million btu s per. Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting.

Gum from the american species is easily substituted. The spiny ball fruit is often painted silver or gold adorned with sequins or glitter and used for christmas tree decorations. Likely to be a two part series this beautiful chunk of louisiana sweet gum wood is actually an offcut from a large log section. This is because when sweet gum wood.

February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first. Come check out gum creek board s handmade sweet gum flat grain cutting boards. Marbled macassar ebony wood veneer this category of marble figure ebony has a breath taking arrangement of light and dark streaks that few other wood veneers can match. Wide sapwood is whitish to light pink or tan color and is sometimes referred to as sapgum or sweetgum heartwood is gray to reddish brown and is commonly referred to as redgum i turned some small.

And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. 6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup. Sweet gum firewood use sweet gum is not a very popular firewood choice for a variety of different reasons.

You don t have to be a woodworker to see the beauty in this kind of ebony. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. I wasn t quite sure what t. You can uniquely personalize them by choosing an engraving from our catalog.