Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

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Marbled sweet gum woodgrain.

Sweet gum wood though has been another story. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup. You don t have to be a woodworker to see the beauty in this kind of ebony. 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. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Disclaimer we classify dark boards as containing more. Gum from the american species is easily substituted.

Come check out gum creek board s handmade sweet gum flat grain cutting boards. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. 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. Sweet gum firewood use sweet gum is not a very popular firewood choice for a variety of different reasons.

Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting. In fact sweet gum will produce approximately 20 6 million btu s per. February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first. You can ask most experts and they will tell you that splitting sweet gum is probably more difficult than splitting oak.

However this doesn t mean you can t use the wood. 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. 6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum. 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.