DIY Wood Burning Technique - That's not Shou Sugi Ban! Or is it??

what's up guys on this episode of build dad build I'm going to show you guys how to get that burnt wood finish that I love so much you might even called it should be bye all right guys before we get to the burn and I figured we go over a couple of tools I'll link to the tools I use down in the description down below or tools like mine so I have three different torches now when I started out I have one torch so you don't need all these torches to start out as I continue to burn more projects I just wanted to branch out a little bit so first here's Big Daddy this is also used to kill weeds I think if you look up weed torch you'll find this on the googles and this whips up to a propane tank like you'd have on your grill I actually just used the same one that I use on my gas grill this is where they use 180 to burn a lot of material or I have a large surface area because you get a smaller torch and it just takes forever speaking of a smaller torch this is the torch I started out way I have senses this is just a kena propane man propane torch had used to have this nozzle on it switched over to a quick quick igniter and if you look the mouth on that's a little wire this is a little thinner I use this now for detailing so when I want to get to like kind of a little more go into a small piece and this is my third torch this has a very specific use but we'll get to that later now let's talk about the boring stuff safety you may not see it on camera but I have this behind the scenes every time I'm gonna burn any sort of material first it's just a big bucket of water y'all know what water looks like right the main reason I use this is if I have a smaller piece and it catches on fire and I can't get it under control I can throw it in the bucket I can also pick the bucket up and dump it on a larger piece if I need to never had to do that but it's always sitting right there what I use most often is just this little spray bottle of water I use this mainly to keep flare-ups to a minimum sometimes that you know one piece of just a little corner so it'll catch on fire and I'll keep burning and last as far as fire prevention goes it's a fire extinguisher ain't cheap but I'd rather have one and not need it than need one did not happen to other safety related items one safety glasses people are like Nick what do you need safety goggles when you're burning stuff well sometimes you get a little bit of a SAP that'll pop off especially around knots and I've actually had it get me in the arm and it is not pleasant when it's heated up to where it's so hot it's it's popping because it's pretty much boiling at that point in time I don't want hot SAP on eyeballs so our safety glasses and the other thing is a pair of gloves it's just when you're handling the material it's still hot sometimes if you're holding the piece like a smaller piece you may not really have thought through the direction that the heat is going to travel and sometimes it can travel right up there and get you so I always just a pair of work gloves mainly so you can reach down and grab a piece after it's been freshly burned and you don't really have to worry about it bring [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so once you get to this point you can be done but you can't take this further which is what I'm gonna do right now we have your mid-tones and your darks what I'm gonna do is I'm going to come in and with just a little bit of sandpaper I'm gonna hit some some some areas to just kind of get through a little bit of that Brown down to some lighter color again this is a step that most of the time you don't see anybody do because sanding is boring but I probably won't have a lot of the actual sanding on video but I wanted to mention this step because this is where you can take your pretty good-looking piece and make it a little bit better [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] first we have this piece that I did it's blue stain pretty cool except I just have a like a natural stain that you'd use on pine that gives it kind of that gold color next I use the little maker brand simple finish this stuff is amazing and I I really hope the depth of what this looks like translates onto camera and this last one was kind of a surprise hit I got some some bleach stain and when I put it on it it just looked gray it looked like it washed all the contrasts out I was really bummed out but once I wiped it off oh so good look at that I really have to finish something like this now it looks amazing all right guys that's it okey dig'em my neighbor's bonus lon seriously oh oh look at those riches some good minutes nothing feel burnt wood finish or uh your shitty bond you like this video do me a favor and subscribe down below weird statistic eighty-five percent of the people that watch my videos don't subscribe to my channel guys subscribe hit that little Bell deal and it'll tell you what I ever do video up until next time guys thanks for playing let's get to work [Music] oh wait I didn't tell you about the last storage I told you this torch has a very specific purpose correct [Music] and that is how you smoke a cocktail see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Build Dad Build

Views: 830,085

Rating: 4.7206407 out of 5

Keywords: woodworker, maker, build dad build, side hustle, build it, DIY, makers gonna make, shou sugi ban, wood burning, shou sugi ban technique, side hustle pro, diy crafts, side hustle school, burnt wood finish, wood burning techniques, wood burning techniques with a torch, wood burning techniques for beginners, wood burning techniques youtube, shou sugi ban furniture, shou sugi ban color, shou sugi ban pine, charred wood, how to shou sugi ban, shou sugi ban tutorial, propane torch

Id: cpBP1A2UrPE

Length: 9min 14sec (554 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 27 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/rigorouspatriot]

Love that sun bleached stain. WOW. Wouldn’t mind doing some pine trim in the house with that.

[u/aerofly0610]

Like the humor

[u/rigorouspatriot]

Great video as well. Definitely subscribing.

[u/kikenazz]

Subscribed. Do you have a link to those finishes? About to crank out an Adirondack chair for my front porch and all of those finishes would do a great job showing wood character from the street