welcome back to the artisan rooms
YouTube channel I'm Michael Boudreau and
there's Chris McDaniels operating the
camera back there
what's up and on this video we're going
to show you how to do a simulated faux
burl wood finish and what the heck is
burl wood well burl wood is actually
like a tumor in wood sounds gross but
what it is is actually an anomaly caused
by like fungus in the tree and it can
happen to just about any species of
hardwood but when it does it makes some
funky grain patterns and that sounds
weird but to a wood worker if you get
your hands on some of that stuff it is
gorgeous
once it's sanded down stained and
polyurethane it just has twists and
turns and movement that is unlike
anything else you've ever seen and when
you get a hold of that it's a rare thing
because it doesn't happen that often so
it's expensive so it's a great finish to
be able to reproduce in faux finishing
and if you look behind me you'll see an
example of it this is a very large
television cabinet that was made out of
plywood a few years ago and we were
asked to come in here and make a nice
faux finish on it and make it look very
expensive and that's what we did in this
particular one was they asked for us to
do old wood and so if you take a good
look you'll see the burl wood finish is
right on top of the plywood and we did
two different colors and how we achieved
that was that we base coated this
section in a yellow and we base coated
this section in a brown but we use the
same glazes on top of boat so we didn't
have to do masking when we did that it
was much easier that way and you'll see
when we show you how to do this
technique that the base coat you pick
really makes a difference in the final
product as well as the glazes that you
use so without talking about it too much
when we take a ride over to the studio
and show you how we do this
let's get started doing some Berlin
first you need some tools you're going
to need a chip brush this is a 1 inch
chip brush they're really inexpensive
and you can buy them at any home
improvement store or paint store here is
a two inch chip brush as you can see it
says 2 inches and this is all China
bristle because we're going to be using
wood stains that are oil-based instead
of acrylic or latex based and this is a
3/8 stencil brush you can tell it's flat
it's 3/8 wide you're going to need two
base coat your board we're using MDF
which stands for medium density
fiberboard for our illustration here and
we painted it a burnt orange color if
you want a darker burled color this is a
gray color to start with if you want a
lighter burl when you start you're going
to want to go with a light gold color
like oh my yellow a creamy color but
we're going to do kind of a darker
mahogany walnut combination so we
started with this prime the board since
this is MDF it's not real wood we have
to prime it with a oil or a shellac
based primer so that it doesn't get all
hairy and bubble up so we put the primer
on give it a light sanding two coats of
satin paint the product we're using is
actually called gel stain and wiping
stain there are oil based stains and I
want to show you two right now this is
the darker color we're using old masters
here gel stain and as you can see it is
very thick so it doesn't even pour out
it's it's thick
okay this over here is called wiping
stain and it's basically like gel stain
except it's got a lot of linseed oil in
it and it's very liquidy I don't want to
pour it out why we like using these
because they stay wet a very long time
and it gives you a lot of time to play
and if you mess up you just wipe it off
with a rag with a little paint thinner
on it and you start over
well we do this in a couple different
steps and we want it to dry overnight to
do the second step well to help it dry
overnight quickly we do an additive
called Japan dryer and you'll see I've
got a couple different containers here
and the reason I'm using a couple
containers is so I could put a little
Japan dryer in each one and then put the
gel stain and the wiping stain and in
there this will really help it dry
overnight so that you can do the next
stage the next day so let's get started
I'm going to start with the darker color
which is going to be the darker eyes of
our girl doing random dots almost looks
like a Dalmatian
and that's that next step going to grab
the wiping stain the more liquidy
version I'm getting my 2 inch chip brush
two and a half or three inches fine as
well and I'm going to just start putting
this all over in between the dark spots
another thing you're going to need is a
plastic grocery bag very simple have a
couple of them handy and you want to
crumple it up you don't want it smooth
like that you want it really crumpled
and you're going to have to do this
readjust the crumbled miss of it
crumpled mess there's a work
and apply this bagging texture
follow we're going to start
with the 3/8 stenciling brush I'm going
to go around every single black shape
and I'm going to turn the brush as I go
around it this is not an exact science
it's just going around each darker black
area and isolating it like an island
notice I'm turning the brush so that the
same side of the brush is on the inside
of the dark area around next brush I'm
taking is the 1 inch chip brush I have a
rag handy so I can offload any extra
staining on to it I'm going around these
islands that I've made with this this is
wood grain it's going to follow it's
going to stretch right through what I
just did
you
if you've got a large area you can
switch to a wider chip brush I'm going
to grab the 2 inch I kind of did leave
myself much wider areas to mess with
here I'm going to get the paint thinner
off kind of wipe the extra paint thin
around because it will really create a
very light swath if I don't get the
extra thinner off but the nice thing
about this brush is you can really cover
a large area drag it come off
over here
and if you mess up just go over it
doesn't matter you got plenty of time on
your hands to play with this state
you're like oh I messed up
just grab it I want to fix it brush out
your your brain
do some smaller ones in here
maybe make some small ones with the
three-eighths
go back with my one-inch
now take my finger I'm going to touch
the center each one of these little eyes
just like that
these are like little fish eyes
this is what you have to let dry
overnight we will add it to dry
overnight and we've got our dry sample
here so we want to protect what we just
did yesterday and to protect it after
it's dry it has to be dry you want to
either brush roll or spray shellac on
top of this or acrylic clear spray and
you what you want to do is something
that's slightly shiny and you want it to
not be oil-based because you want it to
not rewetting
this has already been sprayed and
protected this is called an isolation
layer and it protects what you've done
before so when you work on top of it
you're not messing up what you've done
in re wets which is dried last night now
what I did so that you can see the
different stages is on the first board I
had masked off a little bit of the base
coat that orange color and kept that now
I've masked off a little bit of this so
you can see the difference between this
and what we're about to do to it which
is a toning glaze and what we just going
to make it darker richer and more the
color we want it to be when it's done so
our next step is to use wiping stain
again and this time we're going to use
red mahogany shake it up real good
so get yourself a clean rag you want to
bunch it up take your chip brush I'm
going to use a new one because I'm going
to show you what happens when you use a
new chip brush this is a two and a half
inch never been used it's probably going
to get hairs all in our work and I'm
going to show you how to get those hairs
out once they get in there so here we go
I'm just going to just start putting
this on
take our rag bunched it up we're just
going to rag now through every step of
this process we put tape down on the
last thing we did to protect it so you
can see the difference from base coat to
first grading layer to toning layer and
now I'm going to pull the tape off so
you can actually see the difference so
here we go
you got a base coat first grain toning
layer so there you have it
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