Sweetgum

[Magicman]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum Silver_Eagle.  Yes, that flooring is very nice.   

[pineywoods]

Sweetgum will spalt nicely. I sawed one big ole log that had lain in the pasture for a year. It had a bunch of nice spalt. My ceiling tile on Jeff's cabin is made from it.

[Silver_Eagle]

kelLOGg;

I don't have a sweet gum floor, was just sharing the link to the flooring job I found a year or so ago.

According to the article, they used Bonakemi Traffic clear finish.

[Okrafarmer]

Seems like dried sweetgum would be hard enough for a durable floor.

[Okrafarmer]

SG has a janka hardness of 850, which is a little less than red cedar, but much higher than poplar, which those same people were also using in their mixed-species floor. Black ash is also 850.

[Silver_Eagle]

Thank you Magicman.

pineywoods,

I took down a couple SG doing a fence repair a couple year's ago. I let them set for 6 month's or so them sawed them up into 1 by 12. Very pretty board's but the SG reminded me of the nasty smell of the white fir we used to cut logging in Oregon. The white fir would get conk's on it that the rain would seep into the tree, rot a chamber into the tree and fill with nasty, stinky water. Then when you would go up to cut the tree, if you didn't catch it, when getting close to getting your first under cut put in, would just shower your legs with water . Not good  . We called them P^ss fir . Not all of them would do it just some older tree's usually.   

[Okrafarmer]

Have had that happen with some oaks and other trees.

[Handy Andy]

 Years ago when I was a house builder, a cabinet shop here was selling Tupelo Gum trim.  It finished up really nice, but had a few kinks, and they switched to poplar. Before that everybody was using white pine trim, and I thought it was nice to use a hardwood. Then oak came along, and after while the customers were all tired of oak and wanted something else.  Now they seem to like flaws in their cabinet doors. 

[Okrafarmer]

Sweetgum's sheer availability means we should always try to learn more things to do with it. And it is some nice looking stuff.