Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

You don t have to be a woodworker to see the beauty in this kind of ebony.

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. Likely to be a two part series this beautiful chunk of louisiana sweet gum wood is actually an offcut from a large log section. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup. February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first.

6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum. Sweet gum firewood use sweet gum is not a very popular firewood choice for a variety of different reasons. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut. Disclaimer we classify dark boards as containing more.

You can uniquely personalize them by choosing an engraving from our catalog. Splitting sweet gum is without a doubt going to be a challenge. Come check out gum creek board s handmade sweet gum flat grain cutting boards. In fact sweet gum will produce approximately 20 6 million btu s per.

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. 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. I wasn t quite sure what t.

Gum from the american species is easily substituted. 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. This is because when sweet gum wood. Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting.