Liquid Amber
John K Jordan
My friend David from the Northwest sent me a piece of wood the other day labeled Liquid Amber. It was soft and punky and tearout was horrible but promised some striking figure.
He wrote: "I knew the liquid amber was really soft and was hoping you could do something with it. My mom's neighbor in California had this rotting tree stump and said I could have it. Most of it was rotted away but I just had to take a small piece."
So I could turn it without it falling apart I used the old stabilization standby, CA glue. The biggest challenge was fitting the shape between the voids.
Oh, it's 2" tall.
I never heard of Liquid Amber so I looked it up. It sure has a lot interesting names for what turns out to be a common tree...
Liquidambar styraciflua, commonly called American sweetgum, hazel pine, American-storax, bilsted, red-gum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, or alligator-wood
JKJ
