how well dose willow turn? I'm new to turning, been a wood worker for years, but just got a lathe, my father-in-law asked me to prune his weeping willows, then in the mail today I got the new issue of WOOD, and it had an article on making cheep woods look like expensive ones, one being willow to walnut, looking at it as soft as willow is it should be easy to turn right? also it's cheep (FREE for the work) so if I screw it up lessoned learned, with out the tears. also is there anything I should do when harvesting it, for other wood working I would paint the end with latex paint and sticker-stack it in the shed for 6-10 mouths with the thicker blanks do I need to wait longer, also someone told me that some woods can be turned green, or non-dried can I do this with willow? or any wood, or were the blowing smoke
Richard