It is okay to burn on cedar. However, some people find the fumes are an irritant to their lungs. Even if they don’t have an issue with it, the other people in the house may find it irritating. You can use a carbon-activated filter fan to reduce the fumes in the air. The other thing to consider with cedar is that burning on the outer sapwood, which is a light color, shows up well but burning on the red heartwood is hard to see. As the wood ages, the red heartwood will get darker. In addition, the heartwood will darken when you add a clear finish to the piece. Both will make it hard to see your burning. You can burn the image darker than usual to keep it visible. Also, do not use lacquer as a finish because it will deepen the heartwood to a dark red/black color. I recommend using polyurethane or polyacrylic as a finish.
@@KlingsporsWoodworkingShop Thank you Michele. Your work is beautiful and it seems your pen becomes like a brush in the hand of a fine artist. Thanks for taking the time to reply and I will use your advice.
At 57 years young, I just purchased the TRUArt 2 Pyrography Pen kit, wanting to dive deeply into this new hobby. Your video is invaluable with its depth of content and tons of great advice! Thank you so much for the time and effort in bringing this information to all us newbies. I will be purchasing your new book, and I wish you all the best, my fellow southpaw. Stay well.
This was a really great video! I especially liked the tips about shading and speed. Some really great suggestions to hopefully avoid these common mistakes. Thanks so much for sharing.
Great information - thank you! I bought a good quality pyrography kit some time ago, and basically gave up on it due to frustration. Looking forward to getting back into it.
Ah.... This explained so much! Thank you! I've tried to learn to shade on whittling projects (which are not flat). I can spend tens of hours with detail work and then massacre it all when insisting adding fire to affect that beautiful surface. But with a open flame it only takes a small mistake to ruin hours. I'll try to train on the methods you shown in this video!
thank you very much. I thought that my pyrography pencil is broken and have burning problem, but it was all this mistakes that I made. wish you all the best.
Thank You So Much For Taking The Time To Show Us A Few Tips And Tricks. I Have Recently Started Wood Burning And You Have Just Helped Me Tremendously.... Many Thanks!!🕊🙏🏼🕊
I'm just starting this as a hobby and hopefully turn it into more of a entrepreneur / side business, thank you so much for the clear and concise instructions, extremely helpful.
Lucky find! I accidentally stumbled upon your video when looking up leather burning tutorials. I have never tried wood burning, but you sure make it seem intriguing! I feel like I just need some tools and I could give it a whirl with your awesome detailed tips for beginners! Thank you for sparking a new candle ablaze in me! :) Happy burning!
This is so fantastic! Thank you so much! You get right to the point and provide so much useful info! And you do beautiful work. Thanks a bunch. One comment on the commercial about Lomi, which I know you have no control over. I'm just making a comment for everyone on this product - they claim "stop food waste." This is kind of ridiculous, seeing that their plastic product will probably break after a certain period of time and will end up at the dump. What a gimmick.
I've been doing many crafts in the past and I got into ''torch paste'' which I really enjoyed tho I have ''entertained the idea of ''wood burning''. Well,my three son's have so much confidence in me and they invested a ''wood burning tool kit'' as a Christmas gift. They are such wonderful people and they want me to pursue in ''wood burning'' as it is more of an ''art'' than a ''craft'' in my opinion. A question we all had was ''can you go over your ''torch paste'' heat gun burnt image and give it more of the ''wood burning" effect(tho I thought it might give off fumes from the torch paste). I hope this question makes sense. Thank you and I've learned alot from your video.
I struggled with this for years. Today I tried something new... place the tape in your microwave for 10 seconds, the try to find the edge, use your finger nail or a very sharp pairing knife to start edge.. If it still sticks, place in microwave (on high) for another 10 seconds. Repeat process as many times as needed. This worked for me on masking, packing, and the blue painters tape. Good luck!
this is amazing, thankyou for making this video. I have not started yet, but I am planning on starting woodburning very soon and wanted to get all the information I can before going into it. This was very helpful and I will check out your book ;)
I BOUGHT A FEW THINGS FROM THE LINK YOU HAVE POSTED !!!! IM SO EXCITED AND I CANT WAIT TILL THEY GET HERE!!! ive been doing lots and lots of Woodburning pieces n I dabbled a bit on leather ,I need to work on my sensitivity because leather is an entirely different level of sensitivity but I can do portraits on wood :) I only wish I could post a few pics here thank you for sharing your wisdom with me I won't forget you
Nice video. I appreciate all the details I have done some wood burning in my life but nothing with the detail that I have seen lately. There is no information about the lazy Susan or others.
I find you can only burn small pieces of timber on a lazy Susan, I also find when the fan is pulling the air across the work, the tip still cools, When I use a fan I always have to raise the heat a tiny bit. Thank you for the video..
I make circles and signatures with a skew tip everyday. Every tip can be used in many different ways. I have 5 pens that I use for everything, just need to think outside of the "rules"
There is nothing wrong with thinking outside of the "rules" after you have learned what the rules are. For a Beginner, for which this video was intended, they must find out what each tip is meant for, how it's used, then they can begin their journey to figuring out what works best for them. Thanks for watching!
Michele, how can I burn the condensation that we see as we breath or speak in cold air? Any help you could offer with this would be greatly appreciated! Also, I’d like to compliment you on your videos - they’re so informative and full of excellent, useful and practical tips! Thank you!
Thank you for your kind compliment, Elaine. In order for the breath condensation to be seen, you’ll need to have a background burned behind where the breath will be rendered so that the lighter breath will show up. I would render breath condensation in one of these two ways: Option 1. I would burn the background where the breath will go first. Then I would use sandpaper (around 220/320 grit) to remove the burn in varying degrees of light and dark, working in small circles. You’ll need to make some of the “mist” lighter and darker to make it believable. Attached is a reference picture to show you an example. Note that the breath is very light when it comes out of her mouth. If it’s too strong, it will look like she is exhaling cigarette smoke. Option 2. I would burn the background only around the area where the mist will go. Then I would use my shader in a small circular motion to blend the background into the mist. You’ll need to shade in light and darker tones in the mist to mimic the breath in the photo. Please let me know if you need more clarification. Thanks, Michele
Hi this is very helpful, I got a wood burning kit for Christmas but not anything like yours. It's the Weller 15-piece wood burning and hobby iron kit. I was wondering if this one works too?
Thank you for watching, the Weller is a good starter unit. You will find that the handle gets hot and you'll want to wear a glove if you're burning for longer than 15 mins. Changing out tips is slower because you want to wait for the unit to cool before handling hot tips. Also, you'll find a lack of specialty tips that are not available for the Weller.
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Michele, Is it OK to woodburn on cedar? Thank you.
It is okay to burn on cedar. However, some people find the fumes are an irritant to their lungs. Even if they don’t have an issue with it, the other people in the house may find it irritating. You can use a carbon-activated filter fan to reduce the fumes in the air.
The other thing to consider with cedar is that burning on the outer sapwood, which is a light color, shows up well but burning on the red heartwood is hard to see. As the wood ages, the red heartwood will get darker. In addition, the heartwood will darken when you add a clear finish to the piece. Both will make it hard to see your burning. You can burn the image darker than usual to keep it visible. Also, do not use lacquer as a finish because it will deepen the heartwood to a dark red/black color. I recommend using polyurethane or polyacrylic as a finish.
@@KlingsporsWoodworkingShop Thank you Michele. Your work is beautiful and it seems your pen becomes like a brush in the hand of a fine artist. Thanks for taking the time to reply and I will use your advice.
This video was extremely helpful because I could not figure out why I was making these mistakes almost every week thank you so much
Glad this helped and thank you for watching!
I got a kit last night. I know nothing about wood burning. This is by far the best video I've seen!
We're glad this can help you on your pyrography journey! Thank you for watching!
Best teacher I've watched. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Michelle! I totally enjoyed watchin your instruction and explanations!
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Love the tip about the wood pulling heat from your tip! I was slowly figuring this out when I watched this!
Tips like these is what we all need to know! Thanks for watching!
Michele is an awesome pyrographer...Great to see you on UA-cam Michele!
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I'm a tattoo artist, and I can't believe how many similarities there are between these mediums.
Agreed. Thank you for watching!
Funny I'm a auto spraypainter and I found similarities to cooking.
That’s exactly what I was thinking it seemed like too!
Thankyou for the tips
Well it's the skin of the tree 🙄😄
I'm totally new to this craft, and I was looking for exactly this type of information! So clear and so helpful. Thank you!
Glad this helped and thank you for watching!
At 57 years young, I just purchased the TRUArt 2 Pyrography Pen kit, wanting to dive deeply into this new hobby. Your video is invaluable with its depth of content and tons of great advice! Thank you so much for the time and effort in bringing this information to all us newbies. I will be purchasing your new book, and I wish you all the best, my fellow southpaw. Stay well.
Wonderful words, thank you for watching.
Southpaw here, too!
This was a really great video! I especially liked the tips about shading and speed. Some really great suggestions to hopefully avoid these common mistakes. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Great information - thank you! I bought a good quality pyrography kit some time ago, and basically gave up on it due to frustration. Looking forward to getting back into it.
If this video helped inspire you to try again, then we are glad to hear that and thank you for watching!
Ah.... This explained so much! Thank you!
I've tried to learn to shade on whittling projects (which are not flat). I can spend tens of hours with detail work and then massacre it all when insisting adding fire to affect that beautiful surface. But with a open flame it only takes a small mistake to ruin hours.
I'll try to train on the methods you shown in this video!
Great idea and hope it turns out the best! Thanks for watching!
thank you very much. I thought that my pyrography pencil is broken and have burning problem, but it was all this mistakes that I made. wish you all the best.
Thankful with was able to help and thank you for watching!
Great video. I'm a wood carver and decided to try burning to go along with carving. Your tips will be very helpful.
Thank you for watching!
Excellent tutorial
Thanks for watching!
Wow amazing, solved my issues in one video, thank you!
So glad this could help! Thanks for watching!
Thank You So Much For Taking The Time To Show Us A Few Tips And Tricks. I Have Recently Started Wood Burning And You Have Just Helped Me Tremendously.... Many Thanks!!🕊🙏🏼🕊
Thank you for those kind words and thank you for watching!
This video was very helpful. Also had no idea there was the lazy Susan style easel, will definitely have to add to my tools.
I'm just starting this as a hobby and hopefully turn it into more of a entrepreneur / side business, thank you so much for the clear and concise instructions, extremely helpful.
Good Luck in your endeavors and thank you for watching!
This post has become my bible and go to when I have questions and thank the gods you cover lots !!!
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST!!!! You're my hero :)
Thank you so much for watching!
Lucky find! I accidentally stumbled upon your video when looking up leather burning tutorials. I have never tried wood burning, but you sure make it seem intriguing! I feel like I just need some tools and I could give it a whirl with your awesome detailed tips for beginners! Thank you for sparking a new candle ablaze in me! :) Happy burning!
Happy to help and thank you for watching!
Trying to get into wood burning because my cousin does it and she makes unbelievable art with it. Your video is amazing thank you for the help!
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This is a fantastic tutorial.
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Thank you, I have just finished my first piece, and could not be happier.
We hope this video helped and thank you so much for watching!
This is so fantastic! Thank you so much! You get right to the point and provide so much useful info! And you do beautiful work. Thanks a bunch. One comment on the commercial about Lomi, which I know you have no control over. I'm just making a comment for everyone on this product - they claim "stop food waste." This is kind of ridiculous, seeing that their plastic product will probably break after a certain period of time and will end up at the dump. What a gimmick.
You are so welcome!
One of the most helpful videos I have seen. Thank you for your channel.
Thank you for watching!
Just stumbled upon your video and that Wolf piece is amazing!!! Really love it😍👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you for your great tips!
Awesome! Thank you so much for watching!
I just started this craft. So your video was super helpful. Thanks so much for sharing your tips and ideas!!
Glad it can help you and thank you very much for watching!
I've been doing many crafts in the past and I got into ''torch paste'' which I really enjoyed tho I have ''entertained the idea of ''wood burning''. Well,my three son's have so much confidence in me and they invested a ''wood burning tool kit'' as a Christmas gift. They are such wonderful people and they want me to pursue in ''wood burning'' as it is more of an ''art'' than a ''craft'' in my opinion. A question we all had was ''can you go over your ''torch paste'' heat gun burnt image and give it more of the ''wood burning" effect(tho I thought it might give off fumes from the torch paste). I hope this question makes sense. Thank you and I've learned alot from your video.
Depending on the type of material the paste is, you might want to test a sample piece with adequate ventilation.
I am just starting and Thank you , I have not made anything yet learning the tools
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Wonderful video - especially for this particular beginner. Thank you so much for this amazing presentation.
Thank you so much for watching!
Glad to find your channel
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Very helpful video! Learned a lot of knew stuff about woodburning.
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Thank you for your info, much appreciated
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Very helpful, thanks!!!
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Thanks for all the great tips, I do Glass etching, notice some similarities. Love the wolf print. Amazing
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great informative tips for novices at pyrography 👍🏻
Glad it was helpful!
Really profound! Thanx a lot 👍
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Oh ok I see makes so much sense now thank you very much for the explanation of the tip categories it's helped me a lot
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She’s a great teacher.
We couldn't agree more, thank you for watching!
Great video thank you 🙏
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Great teacher.
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Das beste Video was ich bisher gefunden habe. Leider nur in Englisch . Daumen hoch super gemacht
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Thank you ma'am! It was very insightful.
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What an awesome tutorial! Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much .Julien
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Great video. Very helpful for me as a beginner. I ordered your book and look forward to gaining some skills beyond just signing my projects.
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Awesome video by far the most Informative video I have seen. thank you so much!!!!
Thanks for watching!
I struggled with this for years. Today I tried something new... place the tape in your microwave for 10 seconds, the try to find the edge, use your finger nail or a very sharp pairing knife to start edge.. If it still sticks, place in microwave (on high) for another 10 seconds. Repeat process as many times as needed. This worked for me on masking, packing, and the blue painters tape. Good luck!
Thank you for sharing your tips and watching!
Thank you for this very informative video!
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Thank you so much .
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this is amazing, thankyou for making this video. I have not started yet, but I am planning on starting woodburning very soon and wanted to get all the information I can before going into it. This was very helpful and I will check out your book ;)
Thank you so much for watching!
I BOUGHT A FEW THINGS FROM THE LINK YOU HAVE POSTED !!!! IM SO EXCITED AND I CANT WAIT TILL THEY GET HERE!!!
ive been doing lots and lots of Woodburning pieces n I dabbled a bit on leather
,I need to work on my sensitivity because leather is an entirely different level of sensitivity
but I can do portraits on wood :) I only wish I could post a few pics here
thank you for sharing your wisdom with me I won't forget you
Thank you for watching!
Hi. I'm from Kazakhstan. You have a great job. I also recently started doing wood burning.👍
Awesome and thank you for watching!
Very informative! I can't wait to get started!
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That would is just beautiful I want it !
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When I started I used the pointy and started to cut the wood broke the blade so I gave up.. But now I know what to do so thank you
Knowing is half the battle! Thank you for watching!
Great job of explaining things! I will refer to this video a lot, I'm sure.
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Thank you ❤
No, thank you!
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wow you're an amazing teacher
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Good job
Thanks
Great overview! clear and easy to understand.
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thank you!! great Info. PS the pyrography store is flagged as insecure....
Thank you for watching! More than likely a SSL Lapse from the New Year.
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Nice video. I appreciate all the details I have done some wood burning in my life but nothing with the detail that I have seen lately.
There is no information about the lazy Susan or others.
The link for the rotating easel:
www.pyrographystore.com/store/p217/Portable_Rotating_Easel.html#/
I find you can only burn small pieces of timber on a lazy Susan, I also find when the fan is pulling the air across the work, the tip still cools, When I use a fan I always have to raise the heat a tiny bit. Thank you for the video..
Thank you for those insights and thank you for watching!
I just got mine can’t wait
How has your burning been going? Thank you for watching!
@@KlingsporsWoodworkingShop very good
@@jazzmaskguy5290 Glad to hear thank you for taking the time to let us know.
You my friend are amazing - Thank you!
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Great video best I've seen so far very helpful ❤
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Thank you. Very informative
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This is such a helpful video thanks!
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What a great video. 👏
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Thank you very much. Really helpful information, I'm feeling inspired.
Great to hear! It's always a better day when you get inspired to create. Thank you so much for watching!
Wonderful information
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Really useful video thank you so much
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This is such great information, thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful and thank you for watching!
Thank You for the teaching, I just want to start that art, btw that wolf looks amazing!!!
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Thank you so much I'm looking to start trying this many great tips thank you an happy new year
Thank you for watching! Happy New Year to you too!
Thanks a lot for these useful and savvy tips. Well explained and demoed. :)
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Thank you for all your great tips! Can hardly wait to try them.
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I make circles and signatures with a skew tip everyday. Every tip can be used in many different ways. I have 5 pens that I use for everything, just need to think outside of the "rules"
There is nothing wrong with thinking outside of the "rules" after you have learned what the rules are. For a Beginner, for which this video was intended, they must find out what each tip is meant for, how it's used, then they can begin their journey to figuring out what works best for them. Thanks for watching!
Thank you
Thank you for watching!
awesome thank you so much for this, very informative.
Thank you so much for watching!
Michele, how can I burn the condensation that we see as we breath or speak in cold air? Any help you could offer with this would be greatly appreciated! Also, I’d like to compliment you on your videos - they’re so informative and full of excellent, useful and practical tips! Thank you!
Thank you for your kind compliment, Elaine. In order for the breath condensation to be seen, you’ll need to have a background burned behind where the breath will be rendered so that the lighter breath will show up. I would render breath condensation in one of these two ways:
Option 1. I would burn the background where the breath will go first. Then I would use sandpaper (around 220/320 grit) to remove the burn in varying degrees of light and dark, working in small circles. You’ll need to make some of the “mist” lighter and darker to make it believable. Attached is a reference picture to show you an example. Note that the breath is very light when it comes out of her mouth. If it’s too strong, it will look like she is exhaling cigarette smoke.
Option 2. I would burn the background only around the area where the mist will go. Then I would use my shader in a small circular motion to blend the background into the mist. You’ll need to shade in light and darker tones in the mist to mimic the breath in the photo.
Please let me know if you need more clarification.
Thanks,
Michele
Thank you so much for your reply. This makes perfect sense - I’ll try it! 😊
Thank you so much!! This is so helpful! ♥
Thank you so much for watching!
Very helpful
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Really great breakdown! Thank you so much for sharing!
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I loved your video ! What kind of wood was the one with the wolf design please
This is known as live edge bass wood. Or basswood. Thanks for watching!
Hi! Thank you so much for all the tips. The wood using in the video seems very nice to burn, where can i find this kind of piece please?
www.woodworkingshop.com/product/bas1112/ It's basswood
Precioso. Muy buen trabajo!👏👏👍
Gracias!
practice makes perfect
Very true!
amazing video. Thank you :)
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Amazing video! Great teaching and you are Left handed girl....yaaay! Bet you are ambidextrous. Thank you for the great solutions.
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Terima kasih tutorialnya.
Terima kasih telah menonton
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Wow! I heard great things! Thank you :)
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I would like to know where the lazy Susan you use later on in this video can be purchased
She no longer offers these. We apologize, thank you for watching!
Hi this is very helpful, I got a wood burning kit for Christmas but not anything like yours. It's the Weller 15-piece wood burning and hobby iron kit. I was wondering if this one works too?
Thank you for watching, the Weller is a good starter unit. You will find that the handle gets hot and you'll want to wear a glove if you're burning for longer than 15 mins. Changing out tips is slower because you want to wait for the unit to cool before handling hot tips. Also, you'll find a lack of specialty tips that are not available for the Weller.