Sweet Gum Wood

The heartwood of sweet gum is reddish and is therefore called red gum.

Sweet gum wood. Sweet gum is a great wood but it cups and twists when it dries. By Dec 26 2020 Uncategorized 0 comments Dec 26 2020 Uncategorized 0 comments. Tai Tong Sweet Gum Wood is known as Hong Kongs Karuizawa and Hong Kong peoples garden.

Responds moderately well to steam bending. From Gene Wengert forum technical advisor. The leaves of these trees look a lot like maple tree leaves.

The sweet gum tree was to pioneer youth the rustic equivalent of a gum-ball machine. Its considered a valuable tree used for lumber and furniture production as well as for ornamental purposes. Sweetgum redgum star-leaved gum alligator-wood and gumtree Habitat.

All you need is patience to cut split and stack the firewood. Sweetgum is known to warp and distort badly during initial drying. Spalted Sweet Gum Wood hand turned fruit bowl food safe watermelon coloring MJDWoodTurning.

Favorite Add to Sweet Gum Bowl TLBRusticWoodTurning. American sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua also known as American storax hazel pine bilsted redgum satin-walnut star-leaved gum alligatorwood or simply sweetgum is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central AmericaSweet gum is one of the main valuable forest trees in the. This tree may also be found in mixed woodlands.

The leaves are more brightly red in colder areas in the territory. 5 out of 5 stars 21 21 reviews 65. Gum is a little higher than average in strength and stiffness than many other hardwood species.