Branchwood Vase

hey today on woodturning we're gonna have some fun we're gonna turn this into this Tim's American Beauty was made by robust tools America's premier lathe manufacturer quality hardened tool rests and live centers - robust built to turn wood enjoyed for a lifetime Thompson late tools welcome to a new level of professional wood turning tools made by a wood turner for wood Turner's [Music] so for today's project I'm looking for the wood this is something I do quite often I'll just drive my neighborhood to see if anybody's cutting trees down cuz you can go to a park or something and find down wood but the downed wood is often rotted wood so it's really no good to turn so what I'm after is somebody who's been working on their house and doing some fresh cuttings so we're gonna drive around a little bit and see if we can find something oh ho it's good work yeah go chat with a neighbor here for a second and talk to him about this see if I can borrow some wood okay so this is exactly what I've been looking for somebody's been working on a tree cutting branches off and stuff so I talked to the owner his name is Jeremy he actually works for a company that cuts down trees he just happens to be doing a little bit of work on his own house right now anyway he's got to show you here a lot of stuff laying here and he said I could pick through it and that I could use anything and I wanted here's a good one that's nice got the yeah got the little piece of wood sticking out like that I've been broken off so that's a keeper right there see what else we can find okay I think I found some pieces that I like we'll see oh we can make from these who knows it's gonna be fun there's nothing better than free wood and we haven't turned green wood in a while and this is really fun to do so anyway I picked my log here and I like this one because it has a branch sticking out on this point right here give it a little flare I'll probably wind up cutting some of this off simply because it's a little too tall but with that there that gives me a little problem it's gonna hit my tool rest so let's go ahead and change it out yeah and I'm gonna go with a shorter one robust makes some really cool tool rest that's what I like they're not just into lays they make all these different accessories that really help you out as a turner because things always change and you need something different so you can see how on this tool rest right here it's stopping short of this knuckle Buster right here so that's gonna be very helpful and it makes it a lot safer than trying to angle a big tool rest across here because it would be problematic I do want to get this as close as I can so I don't reach the tool out too far so what I'm gonna do right now is just turn a tenon on this end because we're gonna need to grab this to be able to turn around and work on the top oh yeah by the way this is the bottom I'm going to go with oh let's see here I probably go with a bowl gouge just to get in there because it's really kind of roughed up right now I am going to put a face shield on for a while because you never know what's going to happen when you have Greenwood it's up it might bust something might break you never know so we'll turn this on real slow pick up speed there we go so we'll start our cut just like this and all I'm trying to do is just trim the end flap right now it'll be flat the entire way the guy watch one thing you can see I'm almost off the edge of my tool right so I've got to be careful about that so that's good so now we're gonna come in we're gonna make a tenon and I want a good size tenant on it I love the shavings that comes though through in the wood when you're hanging out this far don't take that full cut come in take a little bit of time and work your way in okay so we're there now want to make my angle for the tenon there's my fun tool we'll just come in here just a little bit okay you can see that we're mounted now in the Chuck but this is a lot to hang out here so I want to bring some safety up and bring a live Center up here to keep this from fluffing around right so one cool thing about Thompson's not Thompson sorry Doug makes our tools but brent makes the lathe the Brit makes a really nice live Center which has an adjustable point I normally keep this almost recessed so just a little bit sticking out in this case I need a lot of that point because look how crooked this is right here so if I brought this up as a normal thing normal point is only a touch on one edge of the round part of the cup so instead I want to extend this out a little bit and then there's just a little screw right there just tighten that in there now what's going to happen is we bring this in that point hits and I have really good direct contact with it so we're going to tighten this down now and I'm gonna make the shape of the vase first and you can see I'm digging this in really good because I want it to be in there as tight as possible yeah looks good right now when I make sure everything's good and solid yeah that looks really good okay so I'm going to start with my bowl gouge and our vase we're gonna start turning away to here we want to leave it looking like the vase is coming out of the wood like we carved it that way by hand all the way rather than turned it that's what's cool about this so couple matches in here I got to make sure that I'm really close to the branches well here's my closest branch that I want to save so it's gonna be coming really close to the end of my tool rest so I've just got to stay aware where that is because that could really hurt and that one's not a knuckle Buster that one sharp said cut me so let this get this going for a minute and see how it goes turn the speed down turn it on looks good bring your speed up okay now one of the coolest things about working with Greenwood is that it's Greenwood so everything cut beautifully nice and smooth the shavings are wonderful and its really kind of a nice change of pace in working with really really hard wood and hard wood dozer tools quickly and that's why I always brag about Thompson's tools because he's got triple heat treated cryogenically treated tools for a very very long time well yeah I'm used to them holding an edge for a very very long time when I'm doing dried wood but now that I'm doing Greenwood I haven't sharpened this thing for the last three or four these that I've been practicing on making so that's quite a pleasure it really is nice the last time spit at the grinder the more time spent at the lathe I just move this on this wood out you have to be real careful with green wood too because it moves fast and then you take wood off really quickly and when you take out that quickly you can make some design modifications you weren't intending to make so I'm just kind of fishing my way in this way I was gonna so we're gonna make kind of like a normal standard Egyptian type of vase not gonna be too fancy and probably to refine this opening I think I'm getting pretty good with my bowl gouge I might need a spindle gouge to tweak it up a bit that's looking pretty good the whole idea about this piece is to is it's going to crack it's going to have some look to it because this is wet green wood and what green wood needs to be derived carefully before you finish it or will crack so in this case we're going to embrace the cracking we're going to embrace all that movement - so we're looking good there now I've got my dangerous edge over here so I just want to very carefully come in this way I'm gonna go left-handed and just come in a bit and now we're gonna start seeing the shape of the vase coming out my body in on the cup that's really really fast now I don't want to make this too narrow because remember we want to spring out from the wood and I got to tell you I do not like turning left-handed it's not my best thing but sometimes you got to do it so here we go I just want to make this curve slightly so I don't want a straight line want to make this what I'm feeling right now that is kind of neat I think I got a flat edge on this so let's stop it real quick and check oh ho that's cool innit that's neat so that kind of leaves a little bit of the this is part of the branch look so let's keep working on this a little bit and then we're gonna be ready do some real fun stuff well then we have to drill too but then we're gonna do some other things that might be some more stuff to do too anyway back to tourney [Music] so we've got it done now we're gonna drill a hole in it and that mentioned this is great we're not gonna do any sanding because I want that rough look and remember I was talking about cracks you can see them appearing already that's the stresses of the wood and the water's coming out so it's gonna crack but I like that look too because we're gonna burn the crap out of this later oh did I forget to mention that we're gonna play with fire I guess that was kind of obvious by looking at this but hey we're gonna have a lot more fun yeah anyway so I want to drill a hole in here well I'm not gonna hollow this whole thing out because this is art it's not supposed to be functional so we're gonna use what we call a Jacob's Chuck with a Morse to taper so that slides into my tailstock and then we're gonna take a Forstner bit on an extension here so we can drill in deep enough to at least if you want to put weeds or something in there well not weeds but flowers termas weed pot so depends on if you live in Oklahoma or you live in Denver what you're gonna do with the weed pot anyway so we want to turn this way down and this could go somewhere so we're gonna slow it way down for the drilling we don't want to go very fast at all so we're going to gently ease into it I might have to go faster than that but we'll pick up a little bit of speed because this first point where it makes contact is kind of the most critical and so I'm using a Forstner because it has really sharp edges here clip it in now the drill is pushing into the woods so it helps hold it in the Chuck for this procedure you see you get a little bit of steam and smoke off here because the wood is wet and it wants to heat up so I've got to come back you check some of the shavings if you go all the way in here gangbusters the shavings will swell up and they'll catch your drill bit and you're Sol at that point because then what you have is a drill bit display case with one drill bit and you'll never get it back so anyway I'm just gonna keep drilling this out a little bit and then we're gonna be doing some fun carving on this thing and then make it look like a real piece of art okay you hear that nice click I just locked this in on the spindle I love that because now this won't rotate and so this is gonna become my platform for carving it'll hold it still for me I don't have a carving vise so well if he carved a lot you'd have a carving vise I guess but it's a different vise anyway my weapons of choice today are gonna be these two items here and they're very simple a dremel with a diamond diamond cut off wheel right here and that thing is super cool it really goes through a lot of stuff and this I'm afraid to say is probably not made anymore it's an old I think Ryobi power carver and I'm sure somebody makes one out there so if you know one post it in the comments on the video so other people can find out where to get one because when I got that that's like 50 bucks it is a lifesaver because I am really not a carver by the way you know the difference between a woodworker a woodturner a woodworker and a carver okay wood turner woodworker wood carver Oh anyway now I got a whole new audience that hates me it's our goal is we want to make this the dead center on this so I want to basically envision the line of this space coming in and about here and come in about here so all I'm using this for is just to kind of chop the wood up so when I go with the Carver to move out faster we'll turn this little [Music] this is really nice Greenwood so like I said it's easy to move the wood I like that a lot you don't want to get crazy and go too deep but then you're gonna have to who invents the most of your race did you carve in the air it's really well if you do it the light going to different breathing for that specific turn this over here get backward I'm sure this is not the safest way to do this Brian you and I can switch places dance off it thank you who's leading by the way yeah yeah now the drink of the wheel spinning a different way so I gotta be ready for it to jump the other way but you can see now how close I'm getting to where that vase is right down in there I just will explore this a bit without help me one party well he just knocked the wood out faster okay now we've got our little grid on there and I can go to my cheater glasses instead of my safety glasses cuz this thing there's an on/off button here that's all this does doesn't look like it's moving at all right but when you push it into the wood isn't that cool so you see why I chunked this up like so because now you just go in and knock pieces out real quick without having to do a lot of carving I just want to get close right now I don't want to do the whole thing yeah so this does take a little bit once I have all this cleared out then we'll start doing kind of the artistic stuff on here and making this look like it was carved by hand out of this piece of work leave it to a woodturner to figure out a cheat when it comes to wood carving okay so most the grid is removed right now so I just want to start doing to have a natural shape into here to kind of looks like this was hacked out which in my case it will be hacked out good I might admit I might have made a wood carvers joke but I am NOT a wood carver they are very talented people and I hope they don't know my address this say this thing is the bomb though I can't imagine them doing all this by hand now I don't want to wind up with uniform lines because I'll show you over here on this piece you can see i chunked it up and made the lines your regular that way looks more natural almost like a beaver did this they wish to call this the beaver log maybe not anyway so we'll get back to this this is gonna take a little while to carve this out for about 15 minutes and then I'll start showing you how we believe the carving up into here to make it look more organic [Music] so my idea for this is to look rustic right and since I'm kind of a crappy wood carver I'm nailing it so the next step is we want to blend the carving up into here into the smooth part to make it look like it's a work in progress which I'm also an expert at so you got to take kind of a leap of faith and just go oh goodness what am i doing and just start putting some in there you don't want to make this symmetrical cross you want to be kind of up and down real longer a little shorter that sort of thing but we want the idea that this vase is rising up out of almost the ashes because once we burn it it's gonna give it a really cool effect but we don't want to eat hard lines or creases you can see where that's real sharp we'll get rid of that that's sort of stuff we want to mess with and get out of there then once we get this done I'm gonna start working on these edges to give them a good look to so I like to look at that so now I want to work on the edge so I'm gonna unlock the lathe and then lock it back in the headstock again so I'm gonna start continuing to this movement of the wood and the chips coming to the edge and continue the slices going that way so it's gonna take a little while if finessing with that there's the on button and so there is no wrong way of doing this well I'm sure there is but really you'd have to work very hard to do the wrong way [Music] now you're going across again great at this point so the carving will be a little bit harder to do so the strokes are going to be a little shorter [Music] it's a big difference on the resistance anyway we'll keep playing with this [Music] and by gum we're gonna be ready to burn Oh wrong show this isn't that around okay ready do not do this at home yeah just want to let you know I took this over to the bandsaw nipped off the tenon that was on there but then I went ahead and carved the bottom two because I think that adds another touch to it so you know when your maid is dusting and knocks it over sure go cool the bottom looks neat too anyway I would normally do this outside but I have new neighbors and I don't want them to understand how crazy I am right now we'll let that happen later naturally so I have my fireproof set up here in the shop with a patio brick and I'm on a little turntable so let it be get in so we're just gonna highlight the bejesus out of stuff we don't want to be all black so we're going to kind of artistically go we'll watch out now see how the carving comes out that sweet so remember to the Burke has got to be burned also because this thing was in a grass fire remember that's what's going on here don't get that a little bit that looks good rotate this and keep coming around now I left some of these little shavings on here you can see that right there but I found out those tend to burn off so if they stay great if they don't I don't care because while the maids dusting that might mess them up and they might break up few so they want them to feel bad go up on top a little bit so it's good keep working it down and stop take a moment see how it looks we're probably a little bit right in here kind of highlight some of that oh that's cool I was bringing that out a little bit more and there we got a big white spot those go for that by the way I never did mention this is Elm I think that's what the guy told me when I got the wood problem so anyway this is how you make a really cool art project out of some found wood and also get a really cool smell in your shop just make sure you don't have any shavings laying around oh crap I forgot about that part but anyway when you're done you can just take a regular polyurethane spray and just spray it on here you probably don't want to rub it on there because it might smudge the sweat and stuff so anyway that is how you make a really cool art project out of a found log so until the next time on wood turning keep turning keep Bernie tim's american beauty was made by robust tools America's premier lathe manufacturer quality hardened tool rests and live centers two robust built to turn wood enjoyed for a lifetime Thompson late tools welcome to a new level of professional wood turning tools made by a woodturner for wood Turner's [Music]

Channel: Woodturning with Tim Yoder

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Keywords: woodturing with tim yoder, tim yoder, woodturning workshop, pbs, woodturning, woodworking, popular woodworking magazine, robust lathes, thompson lathe tools, branchwood, vase, natural vase

Id: qII3jWkpX78

Length: 23min 11sec (1391 seconds)

Published: Thu May 10 2018