Easy to Build - Shou Sugi Ban Wooden Benches DIY 

2 coats of urethane did the trick

Happy you enjoyed it! Thanks

Thanks man !

You’re welcome! Happy you enjoyed !

Thanks! Give it a try

So worth it. Take a couple hours a day. Put on a good podcast or some good music and have some fun. Very good for the soul

Definitely worth it !

Thank you !

You’re welcome. It’s so nice I have mine by the fire pit. Definitely worth making

I’d say about $100-150 for materials for this project

I treat them like they’re my kids. I love them all the same 😂♥️

Thank you ! Looking forward to making more

Thank you ! It was a fun experience I’m glad I could share with everyone. Are you going to give it a shot ?

Thanks my guy !

Yes so true. I was stuck between my favorite. I was red a first then started leaning towards the grey/blue because of the uniqueness and the patterns on top of the bench. Looks like a wave type of thing. So much fun

Thanks i answered it on another comment bro

Which color stain are you going to do ?

@@AMGfinishes I like the red one..whatever I can get in store

@@Jo-xg6rk yeah that seems to be the favorite. I got the stain called red barn by minwax. Oil based. I’m actually raffling it tomorrow for Memorial Day.

To my knowledge water base is fine but oil stain does a much better job of actually staining the wood and giving it color. Oil will also last longer and more durable. Since this exterior use I went with oil based stain and urethane

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No I used prime KD. Pressure treated wouldn’t burn that clean and won’t accept the stain as well. It’s getting burned, stained, and coated with urethane. You won’t be needing PT at that point lmao

😂😂😂😂😂😂 damn that would’ve been awesome on camera hahah. But yes I say that to people all the time this could hold a car all day. It’s basically built similar to a header for a window/door.

Haha family is from Canada. We live in USA tho

I probably should have but no I did not. I bought the premium 2x4 so they were more pricey but in way better shape

I had the same thought. I wouldn’t use PT. Won’t burn well. Won’t accept stain well either. The burning, oil Staining and AT LEAST 2 coats of urethane is more than enough for this bench to last decades. Probably just put a fresh coat of poly every couple years if it starts to weather

The first one I built I just used the same construction screws. Then I filled with wood filler. Definitely visible. Not terribly ugly though. Then I learned on the next ones to use the fine finish screw heads to make the hole as small as possible. Just have to use a longer finish screw (not the 1-1/2) used for other parts of the video. Great question

I have to say I ran into a good batch. I also spent a little extra on prime 2x4 studs. Much better quality

Red barn

I’m sure that would be fairly simple.

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Wouldn’t you like to know weather boy

Water. Watched a video where it said to spray the wood to prevent cupping. I think it’s more for thinner boards like 1x4. I didn’t see any difference between spraying vs not-spraying

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Honestly this was more work than I originally anticipated. With the furniture market there’s no way you can’t get minimum $300 for a bench (with the torch,stain and urethane) And they’ll last decades unlike new furniture.

@@AMGfinishes appreciate you getting back to me definitely going to have to try and make a few

@@brodyhale5794 it’s so worth it. I just put out the video for my raffle. I did $10 and have 16 tickets sold so far. It’s been about 2-3 hours since posting

I believe it cost about $60 which was shocking I thought it would cost more

Golden pecan - minwax Red barn - Varathane Vintage blue - Varathane Spar Urethane - clear gloss exterior oil

@AMGfinishes you're the man, thank you very much.

@@nicklapointe2757 you’re welcome. Great stains I’m impressed with all of them

Ahhh that makes sense. I heard that a few times too. Thanks for dropping a comment and letting us know !

I use this technigue and the wire brushing with colored dye for woodwork. I read that shou sugi ban is in fact a mistranslation, but "sugi" means cypress wood specifically. So it's tough to evn call this technique either one tbh.

@@damiondifranco2967 hey, as long as someone can RU-vid a name to figure out how to do it themselves hahaha. Better than “Smokey burnt wood color stain design” 😂😂

​@@damiondifranco2967 so "yaki" means "burnt", "grilled" or "roasted" (same "yaki" as in yakitori = grilled chicken skewers, teriyaki = "shiny grilled", etc.). Japanese characters originally were imported from China, and almost all have at least two pronunciations, one of which is the Japanese prounuciation (in this case yaki) and the other the "chinese" one -which you can think of as the original Chinese word spoken as if it were Japanese. In this case the "chinese" reading of yaki is shou - or shāo in mandarin chinese, which is the same character as shu in shumai, steamed dumplings - even though they're steamed and not grilled…. "Sugi" though is the japanese pronunciation of Cedar, and it's very weird to combine both japanese and chinese pronunciations of different characters in the same word. It'd be a bit like mixing up "lift/elevator" and "biscuit/cookies" in the same sentence. And finally "ban" means "board", but again it's the chinese reading whereas the japanese reading would be "ita". So I'm not saying "shou sugi ban" is totally wrong, but the fact that it mixes both pronunciation; and also as far as I know isn't used locally here in Japan, makes me think it should probably be avoided.

@@SachaGreif cool! The more you know!

Yeah I’m aware. Mostly did it for aesthetics but it’s still helping even a little bit. The oil and urethane waterproofs it anyway

Would’ve been a lot of wire brushing to burn it all the way. Figured this was good enough

It definitely looks good

Hahah that is definitely a new toy I have now.

Interesting. I kept seeing it as Shou Sugi ban

@@AMGfinishes shou sugi ban comes from a translation error. nobody in japan calls it "shou sugi ban"

lol. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but wine is pretty much fermented grape juice lol the art of preserving wood by burning it can be referred to as Shou Sugi Ban since when you look it up online it doesn’t specify cedar wood. So you mean to tell me the only wood the Japanese ever used building things and burning it to help preserve it was cedar? Highly doubt that

​@@ivorycastle7097​ Your analogy doesn't work. It would be like saying fermenting anything to alcohol is therefore "wine". If we ferment barely and hops, we would never refer to that as wine, just because it used the same technique, nor whisky. The origin of Japanese burning wood to preserve it (cedar) was born of a lack of the preferred building material -- driftwood. Some clever person realized that burning wood preserved it in a similarly resistant way that driftwood was. The technique skyrocketed in buildings, because it was resistant to burning (even more than being resistant to pests, which is why you don't see burned wood INSIDE 800+ year old temples. Only on external cladding. The ONLY material used for that is cedar. And the term Shou Sugi Ban is used exclusively in Japan for the purpose of resisting fire in their highly wooden structures. Interestingly, the technique was abandoned in Japan around 100 years ago. No one uses it today, save for restoring something original, or mimicing it as a novelty as the "lost art" that it has become. Can you find a modern building with it? Yes. Is it done for the purpose of preserving the wood? Not really, more for visual appeal. the Japanese word "Yakisugi" is the traditional form of the word, and again specifically states "cedar" (Sugi). Also realize, sugi is incredibly sustainable, and the vast majority of trees growing through Japan are Sugi (Japanese Red cedar). So yes, the term is being used incorrectly for just burning wood to preserve it.