Techniques
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NY Times on Shou Sugi Ban: Black Magic
The Latest Design Trend: Black and Burned Wood… An ancient Japanese technique protects cedar by charring it a witchy charcoal. It’s having a renaissance in the West (for less practical reasons). On the windswept southern side of Martha’s Vineyard, at the end of a rural road that emerges from a dark copse of oak trees, sit two austere, inky-black farmhouse-style buildings — a studio and a private residence — that compose Chilmark House. Designed by the New Haven, Conn., firm Gray Organschi Architecture with Aaron Schiller, founder of the New York City-based Schiller Projects, the home, which was built for Schiller’s family, is clad in approximately 80 charred louvers he torched entirely by…
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Making a DIY Shou Sugi Ban Cedar Fence
Feeling industrious this weekend? Here is a great DIY video tutorial on making your own Shou Sugi Ban cedar fence. Here we go!
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Shou Sugi Ban DIY for a Tiny House Project
Here is a great tutorial of the DIY process on how to prepare exterior shou sugi ban siding for a tiny house project. It really shows how cedar siding with a little bit of fire can really create a distinct and unique look. Check out more of the process of shou-sugi-ban as well as the entirety of the tiny house build at this fun blog.
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A Visual Meditation on Shou Sugi Ban
Many of you will enjoy this beautiful mediation on Japanese technique of preserving and antiquing wood through charring with fire called shou-sugi-ban 焼き杉. Note that the oil used for final finish of the charred boards is plain tung oil.
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Shou Sugi Ban in the UK
Explore how the experts demonstrate the shou sugi ban technique (sometimes called yakisugi) to wood in the UK in this video demonstration from Wales, United Kingdom.
