sweetgum

[DavidWayne1971]

After turning my first bowl I must admit, I went a little overboard making them. I found some sweetgum that had been cut down about a year ago and decided to see what I could do with it. I made a few candleholders, wine stoppers and a bowl that was snatched before I could get a picture of it. And for the stoppers, after seeing my dads antler pens, I had the idea to try the same thing with wood.... getting some "bark" in there. I guess they didnt turn out too bad.

 

[Martin G]

Nice work David! Does sweetgum usually have that pink running through it or is that from spalting. It's beautiful stuff!

 

[hewunch]

I would have pegged that for box elder. Regardless, it is pretty. Good work!

 

[DavidWayne1971]

To be honest, Ive never turned sweetgum before this week... so I dont have a clue about the pink but it is def sweetgum. This was a tree that was taken down next to my fathers house and he was watching when they did it. There wasnt much left behind, 4 or 5 good sized chunks, I just happened to see it the other day and grabbed a chunk just to see what it looked like. Gotta love finding stuff like this laying around..... cant beat the price and you never what what your going to end up with.:good:

 

[keithlong]

That spalted piece of sweetgum is real nice. Good job on the turnings too.

 

[SDB777]

Nice work David! Does sweetgum usually have that pink running through it or is that from spalting. It's beautiful stuff!

I've sliced some Sweetgum on the sawmill and had a remarkable amount of coloring. Mostly tan-ish hue's, but there was a little redness to some of it...and it doesn't take long for the stuff to spalt(sometimes while it's growing, from what I've been told)!

Downside, the 'green' Sweetgum wood....whew, it sure doesn't smell great!






Great turnings!! Keep them coming!







Scott (whats that smell) B

 

[LandfillLumber]

I have seen pink spalting in Ash/Elm/Cherry its rare and never much of it.Very nice job with some logs left to waste away.Thanks for sharing,Victor

 

[robersonjr]

Looks great David, keep it up. There was lots of old logs out behind Linda's place, bet you could find some nice junks out there to turn. I like the worm holes, they really add character to the bowl. Robbie

 

[Gary Beasley]

Beautiful spalting and great looking work!

 

[StephenM]

Sweet (no pun intended). St. Louis is absolutely littered with sweetgum trees - There's a theory that Johnny Sweetgumseed and 3 generations of his family must have lived in the middle of St. Louis and never wanted to walk more than half a day from the house so they could be home for dinner.

One of my customers has a sweetgum tree that's probably 36" in diameter. Her house was built in 1847.

 

[Younka]

Very nice!!