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Sweetgum woodworking. Sweet gum trees Liquidambar styraciflua are a common sight in the eastern United States and in several Central American and southern Mexican regions. It has an average volumetric shrinkage green to ovendry of 158. Sweetgum wood is in fact invaluable to the market of woodworking across America.
Uses for a Sweet Gum Tree. Post May 10 2008 3 2008-05-10T1601. Mahogany mahogany veneer sweetgum Atlantic white cedar hard pine brass.
Thus the sweetgum showed some skip after dressing. However considering planning only it is rated relatively low probably due to interlocked grain. After quarter sawing the oaks and admiring some of the grain I noticed a few.
It is actually harder than oak. The main reason behind this is the bad warp that develops when the wood dries up. This spritely hardwood is much lighter than both Red Oak and White Oak and the coloration provides an element of pleasant variety in the satiny Sweetgum wood.
This stately tree. Make it a bit widerlonger than denser woods. Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua is considered a Southern species but the tree actually grows from Connecticut west to Illinois and Missouri and south from the East Coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
Overall the wood shrinks about 15 in drying which is much higher than most other hardwoods. Its hell to split sometimes. Start date Mar 5 2021.
It causes the fibres to interweave and extremely hard to cut through. Sweet gum is abundant in the southeast. Sweetgum wood takes 12-18 months to get dried up well as the wood is very hard wet.
Mar 5 2021 1 I had the tree in my front yard removed yesterday the townhouses in my row are having this done after the roots of the tree at the end of the street got into their water pipes. The wood varies from palest white to deepest auburn with carefree abandon and Gum Creek incorporates. Joined Apr 7 2011 1028 Posts.
How long does sweet gum tree firewood take to dry. Ive seen several good bows over the years made from sweetgum. Also wood is employed to make respiratory medicine gum.
High chest Delaware River Valley probably made in Philadelphia 1740-1750. Sweetgum is an intermediate weight wood with a uniform texture it averages intermediate in planning shaping boring and turning. Most wood splitting experts will tell you how difficult it is to split the sweet gum wood.
An American Wood sweetgum is fairly difficult to split and produces only about three-fourths as much heat per cubic foot of wood as red oak having an equivalent moisture content. After initial drying distortion is significantly less but the wood still experiences an appreciable amount of movement in service. We had a portable mill cut some floor boards for our construction lowboy trailers out of Sweetgum.
The wood is also widely used to make doors cabinets plywood veneer. The splitting you mention is commonly seen in red gum the heartwood but also is a problem in sapwood sap gum. If sweetgum is wounded by scraping the bark away the new growth of wood secretes a clear balsamic oleoresin that tastes like turpentine and is known as storax or styrax.
Thats almost half again as much as cherry and more than three times greater than an outstandingly stable wood like genuine mahogany. Htra sweetgum is not a very stable wood and seasoning it doesnt necessarilty cause it to change its attitude. I am also splitting a limb from a beech tree.
This is not surprising because sweetgum has a volumetric shrinkage of up to 15 percent while yellow-poplar has a volumetric shrinkage of about 125 percent the same. Not typically used as firewood because it is hard to split. Its not primo wood but will make a good bow.
You can try 12 sticker spacing and also very fast drying. Sweetgum tree wood is very popular to make furniture lumber. The excessive warp with gum is why it is not a commonly used wood.
Discussion Starter 1 Apr 8 2011. While the sawyer was here I had him cut a cherry red and white oak. Jump to Latest Follow 1 - 5 of 5 Posts.
Strength At 12 percent moisture content sweetgum weighs 36 pounds per cubic foot and it is an intermediate weight. Questions about the use of the wood species sweetgum in eighteenth century Delaware River Valley furniture from the last post reminded me of a high chest that sold at Sothebys a decade ago this month. Some of the sweetgum 2 by 8s tended to be slightly less than 725 inches wide and less than 15 inches thick.
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