Sweet Gum Tree Woodworking

It is considered a hardwood species with wood weighing 52 pounds per cubic.

Sweet gum tree woodworking. Look for the absolute straightest trunks with the least crotch wood. Sweetgum sap gum red gum alligator tree alligator wood hazel pine incense tree liquidambar satin walnut and star leaved gum height weight. The sweet gum tree attracts wildlife including blue jays cardinals mourning doves squirrels chipmunks and luna moths. I looked on the internet and loved the beautiful grain and colors of it but i heard that it has a bad tendency to warp and curl really bad.

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 heartwood with darker black streaks is called figured redgum quartersawn pieces have a ribbon stripe appearance. So avoid taking gum trees with a lot of lean or that are limb heavy on one side. My question is is sweet gum lumber worth a darn. Keeping gum flat during drying requires 12 inch sticker spacing rapid drying avoiding rewetting.

There they sought out a tree with unusual star shaped leaves and bark resembling alligator skin. From it they pried off then popped into their mouths yellowish brown balls of a fragrant resinous substance with a licorice like taste. A tree can appear to have balanced weight distribution in the crown but there s no way to know how the tree has responded to that stress. Let me know what can be done with this wood it s beautiful.

Little did they know that. This one surprised me. Trees can grow to heights of 120. A guy i work with just had a huge sweet gum tree fall next to his house.

Has anyone ever milled. Their treat was the sap of the native sweet gum tree liquidambar styraciflua.