Making Wood Last Forever (Almost) - The Shou Sugi Ban Technique
Shou Sugi Ban is an ancient Japanese technique to preserve wood.
It's done by first charring the surface of the wood. This makes the wood fire retardant and resistant to rot, insects and decay!
The oldest wood building in the world (now about 1311 years old) employs this wood preservation technique. That's practically forever!
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Very nice! Used motor oil works fine too!
It's called creosote. Been used for hundreds of years.
Isn't this what they used to do to telephone polls to keep them from rotting?
Isn't this why they stopped allowing old railroad ties to be used in landscaping because it was so bad for the environment??
Can’t put that in your house or anything. Thats only really used on old bridges and railroads.
My grand dad did his fence this way!! I know some of those boards are 40+ years old!!!
If you want a more environmentally safer finish, you could use plain old linseed oil. Same durability without leeching petroleum products eventually
This treatment is very common on wooden buildings in Japan. Thank you for finally allowing me to understand what the process is.
Nice pollution tip. the USGS found. Runoff collected from pavement with coal-tar sealcoating was toxic to test organisms up to as much as 111 days after application
Basically railroad ties without the extra elemental poisons.
Basically made a simple Creosote. They actually banned this in the UK for enviroMENTAL reasons.
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I already knew about lightly charring the outside of the wood but I didn’t know about applying a few coats of tar/oil mixed with denatured alcohol. I can totally see how this added process not only protects it from water damage and rot but it also keeps the insects away especially termites. Thank you so much for the info! Take care!
Actually learned this from my grandpa. I can approve this is extremely effective!
I do a variation of this on the canes that I make. After I've carved and medium sanded the wood, I char it lightly, fine sand it, and then seal it with Danish rubbing oils or Teak/Tung oils. It makes the wood much, much harder and almost impervious to moisture and temperature extremes.
Bird screaming in the background is the star of the show
Now to make the most goth looking indestructible cabin
The thing is about that old type of lumber,termites hate it...thats why the old timers knew to use it... knowledge is power folks 😎👍
If you don’t have access to the product shown here, but have trees that produce fat wood growing nearby, you can make pine tar/pitch and if you capture the steam and condense it that becomes turpentine.
I hate that it doesn't let me save shorts to playlists! I hope I can find this one again.