The Japanese art are preserving wood with fire. After burning, you can wire brush it back,
dye it and you'll get some astonishingly beautiful finishes. You up for that buddy!!
So for this project we're going to need three things, wood, dyes and my favorite thing fire. For the wood i'm going to
use some off cuts from the log store project and I'm going to glue it together and sand it square.
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Now the sanding's done, we need to burn the wood. Now i'm no expert, but from what
I understand it needs to be done quite heavy, so this weed burner will be ideal for the job.
Now we need to brush it back. I've got these nylon brush drill attachments which have been
impregnated with abrasive and what this will do it will get rid of the soft wood, leaving the
lovely charred hardwood grain behind...
It'll be fine!
It's beautiful in its own right, but what we're going to try and do is accentuate some of this
grain with some wood dye. Now what i'm going to do, is i'm going to go for a sunburst effect.
So have a base of yellow, feathering it out through orange and red towards the edge.
There are two ways of dying these. The first will give you a more subtle look,
this is done by giving the wood a coat of yellow over the full surface...
this is followed by an orange, you want to do the outer third over the yellow...
and finally you want to go around the edge with a red.
The second way will give you a more defined look and is my preferred way of doing it.
In this method you start around the edge with a red...
do the outer third in orange, but only overlapping the red by a little bit...
and finally finish off with the yellow, overlapping the orange by a little bit
and only on the final pass, so not to mix too much orange in with the yellow.
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What a great project, relatively easy to do and a really cheap way to get a beautiful unique look.
Now i did have to brush it back a bit the first time i did it as the colors weren't
quite as vibrant as i would have liked, but i'm definitely on the lookout for
things to buy that i can apply this effect on. As always thanks for watching and if you
think I've earned it i would love a like and a subscribe and i'll see you in the next one.