Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
This is another experiment for me, not so much in form but techniques and in species of wood.I had never turned willow before and found an opportunity to collect some green wood and process it into blanks.
It was incredibly wet.As a trial I turned a very thin bowl from it but the tearout was unbelievable.
I decided to rough turn a second piece and leave the walls closer to an inch. I put it into a container of silica beads and left it for two weeks.I enjoyed this piece because I had an oportunity to try some additional techniques that were new to me. This included using a reground negative rake scraper (40/40) and reground skew with both a flat and a curve (35/35).Here are some pics of the reground tools I used on the vessel.
The top tool is a reground bowl gouge (3/4”) with a 55 bevel and swept back wings.The second tool is a skew I made with HSS that has a 35 bevel on both faces. I suppose that makes it a negative rake scraper.The third is a reground scraper that has 40 bevels on both faces. I ground it round on both sides as well.They all worked really well but mostly I used the bowl gouge to shear scrape the surface for the final cut.This vessel is 4 3/4” wide by 4 1/2” tall. The wall varies from 3/32ths” to a little under 1/8ths” towards the bottom.It is sanded to 320 grit, sealed with Mylands Sanding Sealer. Finally it is finished with Maloof wipe on poly/oil/ms blend and buffed with Beall Buffing system.
Thanks for looking.