This is for some bottle shelving for a local tavern that has recycled weathered and distressed wood ship-lap interior.
I'll post pics of the project later, but this is how I did the "treatment." It took some practice on some scraps, but it was pretty fun and easy.
That looks really great. Pops the grain nicely.
Pretty neat.
Preheat the wood, first, before the charring? That makes sense.
I wonder how campfire charring would work, if you don't have a torch? More time needed, I suppose.
Sonny
That is really neat. I have a bear carving I bought in Alaska which is treated like that. The colors are reversed--the softer, light colored wood is darkened the most.
But how did you stand on the wall to do it? ;>)
ROTFL, and above it no less. :)
Nice, beats trying to find a matching stain.
Here is one installed at its new home holding up the important stuff! :-)
You caught that, huh? Yes, I found out that if I preheated the surface that it was easier to control the burn. It was easier to control and fine tune the amount of darkening. If I went "all-in" with the torch right away, it would burn too quickly. Go figure.
Of course, it was different on different grains. Some burned very quickly and some wouldn't burn until it caught ablaze. Either way, I'm please with the outcome and encouraged to have another finishing technique that is very, very easy, all things considered.
And yes, you smart@$$es!, I rotated the video. :-p
It's better than loading it vertical and having a tiny little sliver of footage on the screen. Shooting it in that position was the only way I could get close enough and not burn the toes off my wife's cute little feet.
Hell, Bubba ... that was bunker decor throughout the Vietnam war.
Burnt plywood finish on the wall was the high class cat's ass in the bunker of every unit that that could steal the plywood for their firebase ... and the only finish available.
We called it "Special Forces Faux".
Thanks, but I'll pass ... ;)
Hilarious! Karl, you'll appreciate that my client's dad is a high ranking, career Army guy and combat veteran. I'll relay your sentiments to him next time I see him and ask him what he thinks. :-)
Right now, they are both at The Jake in Cleveland for game 7!
-MIKE- was heard to mutter:
Looks good. Looks like pine? Seems like a decent method for creating that effect. Thanks for sharing and hope you share more.
I've been contemplating this technique for projects but have not really researched or tested yet. You've inspiried me. ;)
`Casper
Right on!
-MIKE- was heard to mutter:
Found this a while back and thought I'd share it. A bit of a different burning technique with nice results.
Wow, I hope the fire department is close to his neighborhood!
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