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Ruby50
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2016 9:39 am 
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Here is a video from the fantastic "Tools for Working Wood" site. It is Korean woodworking with no English, but you don't really need it. The first 3 minutes is a very interesting finishing technique that might be cool to try on a guitar. The craftsman scorches the wood, then burnishes off the charred wood with a corn stalk burnisher like Ruobo showed:

https://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/sto ... ng+In+Asia

If you did this to a Torrified top, would it be Terrified? Beautiful. By the way, those burnishers leave a very polished surface on almost any wood.

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Michi does this with gunpowder - this video was shot at Northwoods a few years ago -

http://youtu.be/5Jfi0sOawT0

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David Collins wrote:
Michi does this with gunpowder - this video was shot at Northwoods a few years ago -

http://youtu.be/5Jfi0sOawT0

Has anyone else tried this? I like it....Talk about a conversation starter!

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Pick your propellant with care, they can burn at vastly different speeds, pistol/shotgun/black can blow up in your face, some of the slower burning might set the top on fire :mrgreen:
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