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Today’s video and article as you can tell is about burning arrows.  More importantly it is about burning wood and experimenting with new things.  So let’s jump right in!

Here you can see the propane torch that I bought.  I bought this at WalMart, here locally.  You can order them online, or probably find them at other stores near you.  Mine was very cheap, around $15 for the kit.  It came with torch and propane bottle.  I couldn’t believe it was that cheap, and trying to find links to exactly what I bought hasn’t happened.  So, sorry, no links to my kit available. 

Just a little back ground, I have never tried burning wood in this fashion.  I have used an electric wood burner and put dots on dice, but that is it.  So I was very excited to try this technique.  Also, I wanted to see what it would look like if you burned it, then stained it.  Burning looks good, staining looks good, it has to be better to combine them, right?

The first thing I did was burn 5 pieces of wood.  You only see 4 in the picture above, but I went back later and did a 5th one.  I planned on staining each board with one of these stains:  cherry, pecan, oak, or walnut.  The 5th board was only burned.  I wanted to see what the difference would be between each of these boards burned and then stained.  To help me out later, I wrote on the back of each board what color stain was applied.  Just in case it wasn’t clear later. 

One note, you shouldn’t tip your torch at the angle in this picture.  Keep it upright or slight angle and it will work much better. 

Boards are burned, now time to stain ‘em. 

From left to right we have Cherry, Pecan, Oak, and Walnut.  The far far right one is an unstained burned board. 

Definitely like the way the oak one looks the best.  I have decided that that is the one I will go with.  Time to start burning the arrows.

Holding the torch upright or a slight angle like above makes it work a lot better.  It is interesting to see how the knots and grain burns differently.

Now that they have cooled, we are back to staining.  As I stated earlier, this is Golden Oak stain.  You can tell a huge difference and they are already looking good. 

All stained now.  These look fantastic in my opinion.  Not sure if you have every tried or thought about trying burning boards, then staining them, but you definitely should give it a go.  I could not be happier with how these turned out. 

Very nice!  These turned out excellent.  I applied a few coast of spray lacquer to these.  That sealed them up and really finished off the project very nicely.  Here is the link to the spray lacquer I used: http://amzn.to/2rO2cRr

If you want to know how I made the arrows, I have an older video where I made some out of pallet wood.  You can check out that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWUXlxM_n2w

If you don’t follow me on twitter and Instagram then you missed out on seeing pictures of all the arrows I made when I made these. 

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