Yakisugi - Not Shou Sugi Ban - The Art Of A Burned Wood Finish 

I say right on all the time. I'm 68. Kids love it. Lol Cool video

Thanks Jon! My wife is from Japan, and she rolls her eyes every time she sees a westerner using the "sho sugi ban" term

That IS good finish, I used it for years on hardwood floors.

Nice work! I'm a hardwood floor refinisher so I know Bona finish very well. You can definitely role it on but use a microfiber roller. That won't leave bubbles. Put it on thicker with each coat and it will lay out flat without the need to brush it out. You can also use those deck pads/paint pads, just go with the grain. That's how I do stairs because it works best when doing vertical surfaces. A foam brush for tight spaces. It tends to run so can't put it on thick on the vertical surfaces but because it's water base finish, you can build up the coats without abrading as long as you coat inside 24 hours. Then for a final coat you can abrade it with 220 to smooth it out and apply your final coat as generously as possible without runs. Smoth out runs when it's wet with foam brush.

Gorgeous work!

Looks amazing. What a great feature

yeah lovely result

BEAUTIFUL!!!

Great work! And thanks for the lesson on correct terminology! I love this look!!

Awesome ! I love the true tradesman band-aid !

Thanks a lot for the explanation.

Great job. I like the oar towel racks.

First timer on this channel. The way you talk and your voice remind me of Alan Watts. Thank you for the thorough explanation

Awesome job, love the look and finished product.

Outstanding Jon! Looks great!

Looks nice. Good job!

May yoshi bless you on your travels

Beautiful!

Amazing finish Jon. Thanks for the instructional video

So cool! Great video!

Very creative! Looks great! Thanks for sharing.

Amazing. Awesome. Slick.

wow! turned out amazing!

That bathroom turned out really nice. Love the Yakisugi! 😃👍🏼

Nice looking vanity. Looks like a fun project too

Great !

Nice work 👍🏼👍🏼

love the bathroom unit - given me an idea!

How apropos, I just picked up a couple of pizzas and up pops a new video from Jon for me to watch while I eat.

Interesting finish!👍

Very sharp! Really like the look. Thanks for the tip. Happy New Year!

Great video and nice results you achieved.

Pro life tip for anyone interested, build a fire pit out of an old washing machine tub by removing it and mounting it to an aluminum car rim. This type of fireplace gets so much induction air from all of the perforated holes that it creates an extremely hot fire and air stream through the top of the tub. Now you can go out in your yard start a fire in your pit, stand up wind and start charring your boards lightly or the more traditional deeper char way quite easily, have you a bucket of water to dip the first burnt end in to or a spray hose and you can easily hold it to finish charring the other end. This is the cheapest and most effective way as the fuel is just firewood and the materials for the fire pit are literally scrap yard material but do require some basic tools to disassemble the washing machine to get the drum out and small number of self tapping metal screws, most importantly though you can consciously choose the char level as the fuel cost isn't playing a factor

very nice

wooooaa, that look is sick nice :D

Thanks for the video! Excellent demonstration. Don't your find that wood cups a lot when your apply the flame? I experience problems with that.

Great video! just wondered if you get any warping/bowing problems from the burning?

Great my dear friend. Best wishes to you 👍 Happy🎉New🎉Year🥂

Interesting video. I've been annoyed by "shou sugi ban" too. Please note that "sugi" means cedar, not cypress (which is "hinoki").

finally someone using the correct term, My girls is model from Japan

Thank you! I have been looking for someone using this technique on furniture for ages. Only other I have seen experienced problems with the wood warping during the burn. Have you experienced this?

Sits Yakisuge not shu sugi ban? I did my machete handle for practice ( RU-vid blacksmith taught) I used twin burner propane torch. Gave it a beautiful pattern but my handle after after a lot of cutting with the Machete? Looks good and the steel I used was extremely hard. I love this artwork! I restored a bowie knife! Polished stainless steel blade with a Yakisuge handle coated in epoxy clear resin! ( restoration) top video. Cheers from Australia 🙂 Btw I tried a light burn on pine and the grain really pops out after sanding with a scotchbrite style sandpaper for handyman jobs. Love it.

Thanks for video. What do you recommend for porch boards to be used on a covered porch that will get some weather/rain which are fired with propane torch? This sealer? Or if I wanted to stain it with some color, would a deck stain be OK ? I've seen videos where they use linseed oil and turpentine after the fire treatment on decks but not sure if you can color stain after you do that. My wood is just yellow pine tongue and groove.

I’m building an outdoor chair and am having a difficult time deciding how to seal it from the weather and still make it safe to sit on is that sealant what you’d recommend? In the past I tried polyurethane and that was a disaster of how hard it was to apply a smooth finish.

demasiadooo buennooo muchas gracias, pongase unos guantesitos si mi bro

Well done bro ! Thank you . I would like to recommend that the volume of the music was a few decibels to loud in relation to your voice . I mean no disrespect . Actually it's a compliment to your speaking voice . So I will not apologize . How long from start to finish ? Once again thank you very calming to watch .

Do you brush after spraying it with water or just leave it as is and oil? Looks incredible I'm going to try doing this to the interior area of a cedar sculpture next week I'd like to leave it in the suyaki phase

Your reference to samurai is hilarious. Seems like you are living in the Pacific Northwest now either in Canada or the US. Did you ever live in Japan? I’m Canadian living in Japan for going on 12 years now. Doing lots of DIY Reno’s on my traditional Japanese-style house. Love the stark contrast between the yakisugi wood and white porcelain. Hey, are those your bison?! Love them.

Very nice …like the burned wood finish…I did something similar but used a simi…soft wire brush and it comes out 3 D between spring and summer growth …just a different texture in the right places…think I used fur and pine for the right grain texture…??

hey man i want somethink like this for a wetroom do you think it will make it waterpoof

Awesome vid! Does the burnt wood without the finish leave any charcoal residue when you touch it/ put towels on it?

great video, i just started to do a little wood working (small projects) and studying shou sugi ban and now i see that this is the real technique YAKISUGI so thank you again for the great video. but i do have questions...it appears that my little $10 blow torch from Loews does not get hot enough to get a good burn, what recommendations could you suggest if any for a beginner..

Very nice Jon! The bathroom looks beautiful. After you apply that finish do you put any kind of wax on it? The burned wood look is cool! 👍🇺🇸Roger

I tried that on a project a while back. I had trouble with the glue joints separating from the heat.

This looks ilke Shou Sugi Ban yo!

Hello Jon! Thanks for the great video. I did the walls of my barn like this, but one side, the one facing south (I live in Canada) I haven't brushed it at all. I really like the looks of it and was pretty curious to see how different will it age compared to the other sides (brushed and oiled) But my main concern is if my barn can catch fire because I have not brushed it? I understood that this technique makes it pretty fireproof, but I thought it was considering that you brushed it and remove all the burnt pieces that lays on top of the boards as it is sort of sealing the grain. Now I'm a bit scared that the planks catch fire even more easily now that is is pre-burnt... In your video, you seems to express that the traditional way is just to burn the planks. I just wanna make sure I understood it right. (by the way I am using hemlock if it makes any difference) Thank you very much !

Jon, what glue do you use. My glue melts when I burn the wood. Thanks.

Hello, I get Red Cedar and Hemlock, and what was the third wood? Sorry I am not english native speaker. Thank you and Thank you for this inspiring Video.

i tried using vinyl siding i had left over from a job. the chimney was a challenge and smelled awful . id suggest using real would only!! also be careful what liquids you put on it !! some are very flammable !

does this need to be cedar? if not are there other woods that would work better than others?

What is the beat at the end?

Hi Jon, is there a way to preserve the charcoal like texture without chunks flaking off? Thanks

Thank you for this! How long do you usually let it burn for, if doing that triangle method? or is there kind of a range of what would be too little and too much, if you're going for actual protection from the elements, insects, and fire, when using it as siding? And the Cedar you used, I was surprised it didn't have more designs showing in it after brushing, as I've seen Cedar often have when yakisugi'd. Was that just because you hadn't standard it further? The type or choice of cedar boards you had used? And lastly, if you were to stain it some color, presumably after having sanded it further, do you know what stage of the process that would happen at & how? I wonder if there are certain kinds of stain that would be recommended for outdoor use on charred/brushed wood. Guessing it'd be applied at the same stage you'd applied your finish. Thank you! 🙏🏼 Building a tiny house over here and I've been planning to use this method, for years now! 🤞🏼 getting very close to the time when I need to actually do the charring! 🔥🚪🏡🔥 🐉

Good Work! Bona mega mate use in this work?

The butane method doesn't seem to work so well, the acetylene torch works great... but the traditional method looks amazing... it may be the wood species you've used for it but it definitely looks with more character.

7:48 : what about using linseed oil ?

Does this method not leave stain on body and clothes?

Thank you for the correction ☺️

So it doesnt work well on like Oak? I tried burning a small plate but that started to warp even I sprayed water in between.. Next day it did get almost back to its straight form but not completely. This was dry oak btw

How many towels you need? I counted 23/24 in that bathroom.

How do stop the wood from bowing with the heat? Thanks

I would argue that this is ancient human knowledge, not specifically Japanese. Early humans would have noticed how long charred stumps lasted after a forest fire compared to the stump of a fallen tree. We've understood for a very long time that char protects wood from moisture and insects. What's uniquely Japanese is the amount they used in their building. Europeans and westerners mostly charred bords that were in contact with the ground, like cellar boards and ground posts. The old collapsed cellar on my grandpas farm in Quebec Canada was made of wood charred on the outside. The original fence pots on the homestead were charred at their bases, are only a few left standing, they rotted from the top down.

Do you have to use a finish? What is the traditional method of “finishing” after it’s been wet and brushed?

So, I love your work but the vainty top has some big voids that will in time be filled with (ugly) stuff. My question is: if your were to fill in the voids, how would you do it and what would you fill them up with? Would you fill them BEFORE burning? (I tried numerous wood fillers, plastic wood, etc but they all melted or caked up and broke out). I am dealing with this problem on a big table top right now so I really do welcome some suggestions!

I tried this with plastic vinyl, why didn't this work the same way...

I really, really liked your samurai jokes. Especially that joke were you explaine you have to watch out for that samurai because you are not using the traditional way of woodcharring. In japan everything has to be traditional, right?

I've always called it, "sho sugi ban". Had no idea I was being an idiot.

I’m new to this technique and have been wanting to try it. But I’m confused and curious about something. If this technique is weatherproof, and has withstood the outer elements in buildings in Japan, why is it necessary to treat it with the floor treatment? Is it only for aesthetics, for the feel, or what?

Looks very dangerous process 😮. Is it?

great video :D , i did immagine Cleveland Brown from family guy narate this :D voice is so similar :D i say this with love :D

How long does this technique preserve the wood? Should you put a stain after burning or leave it bare?

At one time you said it was cypress, which you changed to cedar - which is it

What acidic is on the wood after the fire?

Just call it burnt wood and get over it 😊

Still curious about the finger damage

Bona is so easy to use and so forgiving

Will our American way of doing this still last as exterior protection?

What's the difference between the one that got burnt A LOT and the 3 others that were just surface burned? Do you finish the one that got burned A LOT?

2:50 Not japanese cypress, it is japanese cedar.

Burning wood is an insult to the tree any wood should show its grain and beauty

By the way, French fries are also not French, in America people like to give things their own name.

Yakisugi is the technique used for wood preservation and weather proofing. Shou Sugi Ban is more of an artistic styled finish for a specific decorative appearance. It's decorative, although some people may use Yakisugi for its charred wood finish appearance which is quite rustic. Shou Sugi Ban is used more for bringing out the finer wood grain appearance more prominently.

yakisugi tsharabuki megakuki meg a kuki

Miss the tabla music..

I call that type of finish "sho-sugi-ban lite". You don't burn it or brush it back as much as in regular sho-sugi-ban. I was going for a sho-sugi-ban and black cherry burst on a recent guitar build, but ended up with yakisugi instead: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4B1qAZgYdIw.html

dam did you burn your finger be careful out there

Pizza is supposed to be a pie, not a tortilla with tomato sauce.

Try as I might, it just looks like burnt wood...

Isn't the point of burning it so you don't need a finish?

Shou sugi ban sounds more like mandarin.