Marbled Black Gum Wood

Mind you it s a good burning wood but splitting it requires 2 hand grenades a bazooka claymore mines and some.

Marbled black gum wood.

Seems like i recall it can even look kinda like an alligator. Sweet gum or red gum has yellow sapwood and a dark reddish brown heartwood that is marbled for the most part. Heartwood is yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks paler sapwood is about one inch thick and is solid yellow lacking the contrasting streaks found in the heartwood. Through several centuries people have applied marbled materials to a variety of.

For those of you who are not familiar with black gum and splitting it please enjoy the pic s some of our pacific coast brethren have a different name and i can t remember but anyone on the east coast who burns has came across this. Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. Sapwood is paler than the heartwood and is a solid yellowis. I saw it 5 4 to get a 3 4 board.

A lot of times i seal the ends and saw 3 3 8 thick then resaw after it has dried. Here is an image of mature black gum. While cedar cypress oak and pine fell before the ax and were split for fence rails shingles clapboards and other essentials the black gum nyssa sylvatica was shunned not that black gum or black tupelo as it is sometimes called didn t yield good wood. Get it as soon as thu oct 1.

The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface such as paper or fabric. Texture is medium with open pores. Thicker cuts seem to dry flatter. In fact the genus nyssa is the name of a water nymph.

Grain tends to be straight or slightly interlocked. It is very pretty but prone to warp. Trees are typically 65 100 feet tall with a maximum base diameter of 2 feet. I am going to go look at a black gum in my brother s yard.

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Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america. Large pores in no specific arrangement few. Closest thing i could surmise is black gum. Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks.

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