You're kidding, right???????????????

so it cant? or you don't think it looks good?

You might get a similar look with this method https://www.terramai.com/blog/faux-sugi-ban-charred-wood/

without most the danger

It looks good but the method is crazy. who leaves a room with a fire going on the floor. Look up a different method maybe using a small torch or a wood burning tool

i really don't think he's burning them by leaving them in a room with fire on the floor though.

i think he's burning them some other way and just don't show it

WTF? That's a video made by a Darwin Award finalist, unquestionably.

But can it be done to something like this?

I don't think any of us are going to tell you it can be done, because it's such a preposterously stupid and dangerous idea in the first place. Obviously, you can start a petroleum fire in any space you own if you really want to, but nobody with an ounce of responsible intelligence is going to advocate it.

Fire and glass don't usually play well together.

I'm not asking if its a good idea to start a fire in a room and leave it.

I'm asking if i can burn it ( via. blowtorch or whatever ) and get the same finish?

Well, how were we to know that?

Somewhere in the comments i wrote : " I really don't think he's burning them by leaving them in a room with fire on the floor though.

I think he's burning them some other way and just don't show it"

As a hint ;)

Yea he essentially smoked furniture. Smoking salmon-yummy. Smoking grandma’s credenza- not so yummy. Hell you can try this in a more controlled way - put a bbq grill and the display in a *completely empty* garage, start it, close the door, leave it for a while, come back, and see what you get.

For the record, I think what I just described is stupid at best and dangerous at worst. So i wouldn’t do it. I also agree with Jenny’s hint.

Is there any type of wood furniture this can't be done to?

Can it be done to this particular piece of furniture? It probably could (but I have no experience with it so can't say for sure) but with all the glass I think you are going to find it very hard to sand the wood and the smoke may ruin the glass. If you noticed in the video that the pieces they did it on have a lot of grain and yours looks like it doesn't so I'm guessing you won't get the same affect. You may want to get a piece of wood that is the same as your cabinet and give it a try 1st on that and see if you like the results.

You would need to strip all the current finish off first- if you smoke it with the current finish at a low temperature nothing will happen, the soot will wipe off. If you raise the temperature the finish will start to degrade and bubble and alligator- also not what you want. Paint it if you want a change.

What you have looks much better as is.

He scorched it with a blow torch.

It is a really cool look but your piece is probably not the best piece to work with, with all of the glass. You can get that same look by staining darker streaks by hand with an artist's brush.

Or maybe if you used a mini blow torch and covered the glass? After you have stripped/sanded down to bare wood.

I would NOT burn or smoke this piece -- vintage curio cabinets are a treasure.

That said, I did have a curling iron burn a place on the top of a wood dresser when I was a stupid pre-teen child.

If that small round "wood" piece left of the curio actually is wood, you might want to try "burning" that instead -- outdoors and in a safe controlled environment.

If you you want burnt look and if you have a piece with WIDE flat surface you've stripped, you might try dumping some ash remains from your BBQ grill on it and smearing it around to stain the wood in what ever pattern you want..

Think logically for a moment. IF that look is even actually created by "fire/smoke", there really is no way a tiny puddle of kerosene or gasoline that small (as shown) poured on concrete would last while he drank 200 beer and then he still need to stomp it out. It would not "smoke" the furniture evenly either -- one part of one side of one piece might be changed by smoke. That video is pure bullsh*t. Guessing that furniture may have been stained or painted -- but IF it was caused by a fire, it was a large one that would likely get you arrested for arson -- maybe IF it had been stripped and then while awaiting final finish survived an accidental fire -- a very serious one.

Any wood will burn -- not necessarily evenly. Any wood will stain -- not necessarily evenly.

Any wood can be painted -- might not look like anything other than a spill.

IF what you want is a darker look, Old English DARK scratch cover applied with a soft cloth as if it were furniture polish might well do that after multiple applications over time. No fire or smoke or stain paint needed. The scratch cover come in dark (almost black) or red for lighter wood or yellow for even lighter wood. The scratch cover is intended to cover the wood exposed by scratches and it absorbs into places where the finish has been scratched a lot more than wood that still has its seal/finish on it.

Still -- wouldn't do that. Very much like your cabinet as is.

A succinct answer to can you do what was shown and get the same result: NO.

Jenny, do you see that he takes the original finish off the wood by sanding it bare, first?

Then, note that his wood that he's worked with in both cases in much thicker and wider than yours, and has far more grain.

You would need to remove all of the glass in your cabinet, and where your pine wood is in such thin pieces, there is a chance that IF you tried that method, you would burn right through the wood and ruin your cabinet quickly.

Have you ever built or refinished a piece of furniture? The most I would try is what suezbell mentioned above - Old English DARK scratch cover. It's a liquid that you can brush on or apply with a cloth. See here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucwmKeKyD4

Let us know how this turns out. I am intrigued.

I will, if i decide to burn it.

But i really like the burnt finish.

The Old English DARK scratch cover doesn't look nearly as good.

This is a crazy way to get the look of fumed oak. Fumed wood is a chemical procedure that raises the grain of the wood and changes the color. Google it and see if this is something you want to try; it can be done with ammonia but you would need to strip that piece down to bare wood.

Google “tortoise shell paint technique”...this may appeal to you and the technique and finish is similar while being much more appropriate on the tiny wood surfaces and the type of cabinet you have

I am totally certain that this video is not real. You can achieve an interesting look by blowtorching a piece of furniture but this looks like a good way to burn down a house. You might be interested in another technique called fuming. This was often used by Stickley on many of his pieces.

ammonia fuming

They focus on the fire and never show you the profession of the wood changing...surely they could have left a camera focused on the furniture instead. They didn’t because they created that effect an entirely different way. If you do decide to try it anyway, can you share what city/state you’re in first?

ammonia fuming doesn't seem safe.

I think the fire method is safer.

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