Since Christmas I have been cutting bowl blanks. A friend called me that his son had cut a large sweetgum tree. It was large enough that I could cut an 16 inch bowl blank off each side leaving an 8 inch slab with the pith. From this I can make two 8 inch bowls on each side of the pith making 6 bowls from each section. So far I have 24 large blanks and uncounted small ones. There is nearly that much left but with the 70 degree weather I can only keep at it a couple of hours.
Anybody ever used sweetgum for bowls? It is beautiful brown with tans and oranges mixed in. Looks sorta like petrified wood.