Marbled Sweet Gum Woodgrain

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.

Marbled sweet gum woodgrain.

You don t have to be a woodworker to see the beauty in this kind of ebony. Disclaimer we classify dark boards as containing more. And when quartersawn it passes as the costly circassian walnut fancied for fine furniture and gunstocks. Likely to be a two part series this beautiful chunk of louisiana sweet gum wood is actually an offcut from a large log section.

You can ask most experts and they will tell you that splitting sweet gum is probably more difficult than splitting oak. You can uniquely personalize them by choosing an engraving from our catalog. February 1 question i am working with sweet gum for the first. The spiny ball fruit is often painted silver or gold adorned with sequins or glitter and used for christmas tree decorations.

Sweet gum firewood use sweet gum is not a very popular firewood choice for a variety of different reasons. 6 references an american wood 7 title sweetgum. 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. Splitting sweet gum is without a doubt going to be a challenge.

I wasn t quite sure what t. Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting. Gum from the american species is easily substituted. Further flatsawn red gum as well as flatsawn sap gum from smaller trees has a tendency to cup.

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. This is because when sweet gum wood. The often beautifully figured stock can resemble walnut.