Spanky

The big heart sweetgum tree’s or like finding a curly tree. Most sweetgum tree’s are all sap wood. The second log in the pic has heart wood.

Treeslayer, I think it may have to do with the soil. Some of the prettiest red gum lumber comes out of the middle of Alabama. What we have look’s more like the second pic. But, if you can get it with a lot of heart wood it will be pretty with a lot of red colors. I think aging a sweetgum log will help on the color. The guy that sells to Woodcraft buys red gum lumber down around Cullman, Al. It looks like the first pic. Hard to get it looking like that. It’s not cheap!

Curlyoak, do you still want to paint gum lumber? Blackgum, would be what you, would want to paint.

Yes, we have big gum tree’s here. Blackgum, Sweetgum or some call it redgum. Sweetgum has a lot of sap wood on it. But, if you can get sweetgum with alot of heart wood it’s pretty. A couple of pic’s of sweetgum or redgum.

I hope, Coop don’t see your dog. He will be wanting, your dog too.

Look’s good.....

Hey, the lumber a little cheaper, if you help.

Coop, maybe you would want to help QS a few logs? Maybe a Sycamore? I think, all woodworkers need to sawmill one day.

Coop, I can tell by the way you are talking. That I will need to get my double barrel shotgun out. If you come to my house.

Coop, he hate’s city living! Spanky like’s the country back roads! He hate’s a bath too!

RIW, likes QS lumber. But, he didn’t know how you cut it. So, he came over one day and we cut a big white oak. He don’t cry as bad, now at the price.

That piece that’s on the mill you will get rift and QS out of it. The piece on the ground will cut rift and QS. But, you get narrow boards. The huge logs I spilt four times and start sawing on one quarter. Cut one board and flip, cut one board and flip back.

Bmac, maybe you can see how, I cut the sycamore log. For QS lumber.

I can get and cut Sycamore logs anytime I want one. QS sycamore lumber sells pretty good.

I did quarter saw the sycamore log. On smaller logs I make my first cut just above the center of the log and kick that piece off the mill. Then I make a couple of cuts and get the super wide boards that you see in the pic. Then I turn whats left up and start QS lumber. Not as much waste that way. They are two ways to QS logs.