The Woodshop Shed

Weeping Willow Vessel

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.

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