It's cedar wood. Fire brings out the resins and forms them into a waterproof, bug proof awesome finish. The planks this chap makes will outlast all of us
I wonder to his trade secret or not secret what does he apply after the burn because the char does flake away after awhile and I know some people applied some type of oil to fuse the char stop it from flaking and maintain that crocodile skin looks.
I tried it myself with well dried larch. There is some thin wood put in with the newspaper, if you watch the video colsely. It works like a charm! You wouldn't believe, how fast you have a blazing furnace!
Hi! I am woundering if you could tell me anything about if you saw this tecnique beeing used on roofs as well? I am building a house and are going to have a wooden roof, I am thinking about doing shou sugi ban but I am having a hard time finding any information if it would be suitable for a roof?
@@luclafor Yes, and humidity is fine. Wood "breathes". Its cells absorbing water from the air when relative humidity is high and releasing it back when the air is dry again. I'm not sure how the charring affects water transportation through the boards, but if you paint the boards with a (relatively) impermeable paint, typically based on plastics, the back side should be unpainted so that the wood can "breathe". Otherwise it will rot. Which is why there should also be an air gap behind the boards. Even if you were to use a paint that's (relatively) permeable, like based on linseed oil or rye flour, it's just not necessary to paint the back side. Paint is mainly an esthetic element, while it protects the wood from slooowly breaking down from UV rays. Painting the back side would be twice as expensive and twice as dumb :) For yakisugi, it's twice as much work.
From my understanding , it is quickly burning and vaporizing the volatile compounds and resins in the top surface of the wood, starting at the very bottom. And as the fire goes upward it continues somewhat evenly as the fire doesn't penetrate very deep.
watch one crappy youtube video about shou sugi ban and had to stop, all theirs just looks like firewood and pretty ugly. One guy even used black stain after burning the wood like what the hell is the point then?.
@@jjcruzflorin te referis a los costados de la tabla o a la otra "cara", la que queda para afuera? Que es lo que el señor no quema? Gracias por subir este video, es uno de los mejores que he visto en RU-vid mostrando la tecnica hecha por un artesano japonés de raíz!
lmfao....so you created a channel to just post videos from other ppl in hopes to get that phat money that isn't there from RU-vid anymore...lol come on man!
CJ Schmitt hahahahaha, guess what? I went there to study , and actually Japanese government very gently paid for all my expenses. I’m a very lucky Mexican 😘