Apply Shou Sugi Ban Wood Burning

[Applause] all right guys so we have our garden bed box uh ready out here now cedar is the best material to use for anything outdoors it just has a natural pigment that ages well we're going to do what's called sugiban and you've seen it before many times and what it is is through a torch or flame we burn the exterior core of it and what that does is it creates this dense callous kind of like feel on the exterior of the wood the pores and it clogs them it occludes them preventing any kind of moisture and rain getting absorbed and destroying the wood from the inside out to get this accomplished we're going to use our friends from burns-o-matic this is a burns-o-matic matte pro gas it burns a lot harder than propane though you could still get away with using propane it just takes a little bit longer and the torch i'm going to use one of my favorite ones this is the ts 8000 torch why i like it you can turn it on here's the flow and then you turn it on decrease your flow and then the best part lock it in place once it's locked in place you can control your burn even more and have a nice consistent controlled workflow that you want to work with so we're going to take this and i kind of get it to the point that we want it to look aesthetically um and then on top of that you have two options you can either seal it with linseed oil sometimes you can do it it gives a little more of a contrast and cool feel or you can leave it as b so let's get to [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right so we got everything done i don't know if you noticed but i did the underneath side of it as it's sitting uh just to kind of give it the best scenario to survive the longest we need to go to the hardware store pick up two things i need a brush to brush all this ash and soot off of this thing so we have a nice finished product it doesn't get your hands dirty you know what i mean