Brushing wood with your own hands is an interesting technology that allows you to artificially age a tree. The natural aging process takes decades. But now, with the help of special tools, this effect can be achieved at home quickly and without significant material costs. Aged material is ideal for decorating classic, vintage and rustic styles.
Brushing wood with your own hands: how the process is carried out
Residents of modern cities increasingly prefer styles with a pronounced individuality in the decor of the room: classic, vintage, rustic and country.
The main detail of such interiors is wood. Thanks to this material, the design of the room acquires a uniqueness and inimitable charm. But for a classic and vintage style, a tree in its original natural form is not suitable. In this case, an aged tree is best suited, which has a more attractive and noble appearance. This material is suitable for the manufacture of any element of decor: a vintage lamp, a wooden chest of drawers, stylish doors and window frames, fireplace cladding.
Under natural conditions, the process of wood aging drags on for decades, since the original patterns on the wood surface are formed slowly and unevenly. Therefore, this material is rare and expensive. But among modern technologies there is a simple and fast way to artificially age a tree. This process is called brushing. Interest in this method is shown not only by lovers of elite vintage furniture, but also by those who want to diversify the interior of country houses.
Do-it-yourself aging of wood (brushing) is a decorative technology for processing wooden products, during which an artificial effect of antiquity is created for an ordinary wooden surface. The method got its name from the English word brush - brush. The aging process is also called wood structuring.
The method of artificial brushing is based on the difference in hardness of the layers that make up the wood. In the process of work, the soft light layer is removed. As a result, the areas become embossed, which gives the material a special look that is inherent only in fairly old trees.
Types of safe finishing materials for interior decoration, their specificity and features of use, prices.
Process automation: machines and machines for brushing wood
Mass production of artificially aged wood requires speed of work. Some stages of wood processing can be mechanized, which will simplify the work of obtaining aged wood. To do this, you will need drills with speed control and special machines for brushing.
Consider the most popular models of specialized techniques for structuring a tree.
Festool rustofix ras 180 wood trimmer or brush machine. Wood brushing brushes can be purchased with this tool. They are of three types:
- steel wire brush for primary processing of boards;
- brush with synthetic bristles for intermediate grinding;
- sisal or hair brushes for polishing the back surface of the product.
The Makita 974 grinder is used for brushing wood. But during operation, difficulties may arise with the processing of areas at the corners of the part. Therefore, at the joints, it is recommended to use a special angle grinder with different nozzles or use a nylon brush dressed on the grinder for brushing. Such a brush is highly wear-resistant and allows you to process the ends, edges and contours of parts with complex shapes.
The Felisatti AGF 110/1010E grinder is suitable for processing both smooth and uneven surfaces. The tool comes with nylon and metal brushes.
Useful advice! It makes sense to buy a wood brushing machine only if large volumes of work are planned. Brushes for brushing wood can be bought both with a machine and purchased separately.
How to age a tree with your own hands: technology
The process of aging opens up the widest possibilities for the master to change the structure and color of different types of wood. Before proceeding directly to structuring, the wood must be prepared. The material for brushing should be free of defects, notches and irregularities, and the humidity should be 10-12%, but not more than 15%. If the tree does not meet these characteristics, then the wood fibers will tear during processing, and a beautiful result from structuring will not work.
Let us consider in more detail the process of how to age a tree at home. The work with the material can be divided into several stages.
Before starting work, it is necessary to perform the primary processing of the part, namely: to moisten the tree. This will prevent the spread of dust throughout the room during operation.
Next, you will need a manual brush for processing. Depending on the hardness of the wood, we choose the stiffness of the metal brush for roughing. The bristles of the tool must easily remove soft surface fibers, but must not damage hard ones. Move the brush in the direction of the fibers.
If you decide to automate the processing process using a brush for brushing wood on a grinder or grinder, then you should remember that the movements are carried out along the fibers. It is necessary to move the tool with such intensity that the fibers are effectively scraped out.
You need to carefully select the speed: too high a speed of the brush can cause the wood to bake. When using a hand tool, this problem does not arise, but more effort needs to be applied. Also, manual processing will be delayed in time.
Useful advice! It is better to select the speed on a separate small sample of the tree. The optimal number of revolutions is 1500-2200, but for different breeds it may differ.
Then we carry out the primary grinding of the part. To do this, we use a polymer brush with an abrasive applied to it. This stage will remove roughness and fiber fragments from the surface of the part. By removing all unnecessary, you can evaluate how deeply and efficiently the structuring of wood is performed. If necessary, the grooves can be further deepened, making the structuring more distinct.
At the next stage, you can think about the decorative design of the part. For this, recesses and grooves of arbitrary shape are made with a chisel in different places of the part. In appearance, they will resemble cracks that appeared naturally.
Next comes the final polishing. To do this, you need a sisal or hair brush. This tool for wood will give the details a finished look, fully showing all the decorative texture. In manual processing, instead of a brush, fine-grained sandpaper with an abrasive surface is used. It will allow you to make a perfectly polished surface of the workpiece.
Then the wood must be well dried. It must be completely cleaned of dust and thus prepared for further painting and varnishing.
The application will make the product look old by creating contrasting textured patterns. A generous application of the composition with quick removal of excess will allow you to paint parts with soft fibers and leave light areas with hard fibers. Soft fibers quickly absorb paint, which means they are dyed, while hard fibers do not have time to absorb the pigment during this time, so they remain light. A tree painted with gold or silver paint looks especially beautiful.
Against the background of the natural color of the tree, this pigment creates glare on the surface of the part in the sun. This gives the product an original decorative effect and luxury. The product will look especially presentable if the tree is patinated - painting over the deepest cracks with darker paint.
At the final stage, the product is polished again to remove the roughness and irregularities that appeared after staining.
Useful advice! Lacquering is carried out on completely dry and cleaned wood. To paint brushed parquet, it is necessary to use a special parquet varnish. This will allow the finished coating to maintain a presentable appearance and performance characteristics for a long time.
Wood brushing: features of wood chemical structuring
Brushing with the help of chemistry is rare, even though the use of chemically active compounds greatly facilitates the process of artificial aging of wood. To carry out chemical processing of wood, it is necessary to have special knowledge and skills to work with chemicals. In addition, the method has a drawback - it is not always easy to buy the necessary reagents.
For the chemical structuring of a tree, acids are needed: hydrochloric and sulfuric, alkali and ammonia. Reagents applied to the surface of the material corrode the soft fibers. The master can only scrape off unnecessary wood.
Stages of chemical brushing of wood:
- Surface grinding and decontamination.
- Apply a thin layer of chemicals to the surface of the part. During chemical structuring, the evaporation of reagents must be monitored. If necessary, it is recommended to reapply them.
- When the chemical has worked, that is, softened the outer fibers, the part must be washed under running water and the remnants of the reagent removed with a soft bristle brush.
- Next, the tree must be thoroughly dried, painted or varnished.
The availability and demand for brushing allows you to perform this method at home. When structuring wood, it is imperative to adhere to safety regulations. Work with tools and a machine for brushing wood should be carefully and carefully. All artificial structuring processes must be carried out in special protective clothing, goggles and gloves. If antiseptic solutions are used during work or too much dust accumulates in the air from wood, then you should work in a respirator.
Brushing a wooden surface is an unusual way to make a piece of wood more beautiful, unusual and attractive. This method is very popular among interior designers and ordinary people, since everyone can artificially age a tree. You need to spend a little time and effort to get luxurious furniture or a chic original ceiling, stylized antique. For a better effect, patination of furniture can be carried out.
Artificial brushing of wood: the price of work
The main task of wood brushing is to create and emphasize the unique texture of the surface of the board. The result is a material with a clearly defined natural material pattern. The procedure is suitable for many types of material. The cost of standard brushing is 350 rubles. per sq. m. When ordering additional painting, the cost increases. The price of the work depends on the chosen type of wood, as well as on the size of the board.
The cost of each stage of artificial aging is usually calculated separately. You can order separately grinding or just impregnation. The most profitable option is a full brushing service from the beginning of work to the final coverage with the purchase of material. It is possible to perform artificial structuring from your material.
Wood brushing workshops perform an individual calculation of the cost of processing, depending on the type of wood, the size of the product and the list of services.
Brushing is performed over any kind of wooden materials:
- bar;
- lining;
- planks;
- block house;
- planks.
Scope of application of tree structuring technology
The structuring method is very popular in the manufacture of interior items and room elements. Such wooden products will be an original addition to classic and vintage interiors. In addition, the advantage of brushing technology is the ability to independently create exclusive things. In addition, this method belongs to the category of simple processes available to everyone.
Fireplaces, shelves, columns, wall panels, as well as aged wood are used as ceiling beams with a brushed board. This material creates a unique entourage for living rooms and halls, halls of cafes and restaurants. The interior design is filled with aristocracy and luxury, and aged wood creates warmth and comfort in the room.
Wooden furniture with brushed elements looks stylish and sophisticated. Artificial aging and patination of wood with your own hands allows you to make absolutely any furniture: cabinets, chests of drawers, pegs, beds. The use of brushed elements in furniture and interior design has no restrictions and prohibitions - it all depends on your imagination and creativity.
is a long and painstaking process, consisting of mechanical processing of wood and work with paints and varnishes. This finishing method is associated with Leon42, a participant in the forum "House and Dacha", with naturalness, antiquity, folk culture.
According to Leon42, buy furniture and brush it with a metal brush - this is not yet aging it, but simply scratching or, at best, making a textured surface. Store-bought furniture - made of lamellas and "thin" - is not suitable for texturing, it looks rather sad and flawed.
leon42 believes brushing furniture should be rough and solid, able to capture the natural beauty of wood.
It is the superficial approach to the aging of wood, according to the forum member, that forms the opinion of many people about products processed using this technology as “furniture of fire victims”. Meanwhile, the combination of aged wood with metal, stone or ceramics in the interior is always a fashionable and stylish technique that allows all the inhabitants of the house to touch eternity and feel like in the Middle Ages.
Under natural conditions, wind and moisture, sun and temperature changes "work" on the aging of a tree. How to do what has been happening for many decades, in a few days?
Material preparation
For brushing, it is better to use soft and medium hard wood with a pronounced texture, such as spruce, pine or larch. In these wood species, soft fibers are formed, as a rule, in the spring-summer period, when there is an intensive growth of annual rings, and they are more “loose”.
A tree with a uniform and unexpressed texture, such as beech and maple, is not suitable for aging.
Before working with wood, prepare its surface. Eliminate all defects and dirt, whether traces of sweat, grease or other stains that may appear during the application of the tinting composition. Process any products (small architectural forms, furniture, etc.) after disassembling: you will spend less time and can get it everywhere with a brush.
brushing
Brushing (English brush - “brush”), or texturing a tree is giving it a relief characteristic of old wood. At the initial stage, soft fibers are removed from solid wood. There are several processing options: light aging - a barely noticeable roughness is created on the surface, or deep and rough, when the depth of irregularities reaches 2-3 mm (for decorative elements, sometimes for rough furniture).
You can pre-treat any part, say, a ceiling beam, with an ax: make notches, trim the edges without fear of spoiling - no one but you knows what the result should be. In this case, you will receive a product with a deep microrelief of the surface and irregularities on it up to 20 mm deep.
Do not forget about the "traces" of the vital activity of bugs and worms. Simulate them before finishing with a drill or drill. You can also apply simple carving elements: pigtails, dragons, etc. - you will get "Scandinavian style".
Sanding: tools and brushes
At large enterprises, machines and automatic lines are used, where everything is provided - from the feed rate of the workpiece to a powerful dust removal system. For an ordinary summer resident, such equipment is expensive and, in general, an unnecessary pleasure. If you will do this kind of work often, it is better to purchase a brushing machine. The most common and publicly available is Makita. The most economical and simple option is a “grinder” or a drill, preferably with the ability to adjust the speed.
The whole brushing process can be divided into three stages:
- Rough selection of soft fibers
- Grinding
- Polishing
Accordingly, each of them needs its own brush. At the first stage ( brushing) use metal (brushing). If you are making structures for the outdoors - a gazebo, a canopy, a fence, etc., then most likely this will be your only brush.
When processing with a metal brush, scratches can remain on the annual rings themselves, which are difficult to get rid of during further processing.
When working with kratsovka, you must adhere to the following rules:
- brush along the fibers, otherwise damage the annual rings and ruin the woody pattern;
- the speed of movement of the brush and the pressure should be approximately the same, otherwise pits will result;
- the light source should be placed on the side at an acute angle, directing the beam of light across the fibers - this way you can better see the surface to be treated;
- do not press hard on the surface, do not overload the engine, otherwise it may cause premature equipment failure;
- the speed of revolutions should not be higher than 3000, better - 2000-2500: the brush can quickly scatter;
- be sure to work with glasses, do not neglect protective gloves: pieces of wire from the brush can fly off several meters, injuring others;
- take care of respiratory protection and dust removal: during this work, even eyelashes are covered with “powdery mascara”, let alone the lungs;
- a new brush needs to be “run in”, otherwise it will strongly “wave” the workpiece, after a while it will begin to process the surface cleaner;
- work only in one direction (rotation), the reverse should not be turned on - this will “kill” the metal brush;
- the humidity of the processed wood should not exceed 15%, otherwise, instead of a textured surface, you will get a shaggy-hairy one.
When processing stable and hard wood (larch, oak), be sure to use dust extraction systems: the dust of these wood species is considered carcinogenic and can cause lung cancer.
If you want to get rid of lint and get a better finish, you will need another brush - plastic (nylon), or rather, a grinding disc made of polymer-abrasive material. The most common grain size is 120.
Abrasive brush - universal, characterized by a more delicate surface treatment. If you use this brush, you can do without a metal brush, especially if the item needs to be treated delicately or if you want to avoid the specific scratches left by brushes.
The principle of working with an abrasive brush is the same as with a metal one. It is better to reduce the speed to 1500 in order to extend the life of the brush. Dust when working with a plastic brush is finer and stickier, so do not forget about a respirator.
Surface treatment specifics:
- do not grind the edges-edges and corners of the workpieces, especially if you do not plan to varnish them later: they will cling and chip off;
- do not make a deep relief on the seats, table tops and other horizontal surfaces - they will make it difficult to clean the surface: spilled drinks, crumbs, etc. will clog between the fibers;
- in order to prevent clogging of dust and snags of a rag during cleaning, such surfaces must be sanded with an abrasive brush and fine-grained sandpaper.
The final stage of brushing - polishing or fine grinding: performed with sesal or other synthetic brushes. You can use fine-grained sandpaper, abrasive sponges, metal wool, removing dust from the finished surface with a wide brush and vacuum cleaner.
Finishing operations
At the final stage, they do tinting (changing the color of wood by several tones), patination (emphasizing the texture of wood with special compounds that penetrate into the pores opened during brushing), craquelure (the effect of cracking and drying out), and varnishing.
After brushing, the board will look like new, but with a textured surface. To give it an old look, it is covered with various compositions, dark colors look more natural.
It is the right play with the color of brushed wood that gives it an aged look. Areas with soft wood (pores or depressions) are unevenly painted in a darker color, with hard wood (ridges) - in a lighter color. Recently, options with light troughs and darker ridges have been popular.
The easiest way is to apply a generous amount of dark stain and immediately wipe the area with a rag or a wide rubber spatula. In theory, stain should soak quickly into soft surfaces, but slower on ridges. However, this is often not the case in practice, so Leon42 I settled on a more complex method: after complete drying, the ridges are polished with fine-grained sandpaper. This method requires further processing with varnish or colorless impregnations, so the top layer that is opened remains without a protective coating.
Another option is to use paint in two contrasting colors: the surface is completely painted over with the first color, then the second is applied. While the last coat dries, run with a wide rubber trowel, removing excess paint and exposing the ridges of the first coat.
Proper texturing is a simple but messy, time consuming and unhealthy process.
As a result of difficult and hard work, you will get decorative elements that carry the beauty of antiquity and at the same time have high strength. Every detail, lovingly made with your own hands, will be unique.
According to the materials of the participant of the forum "House and Dacha"
Editor: Olga Travina
Wood brushing is her artificial aging produced carefully, painstakingly and sometimes taking a lot of time and effort. But looking at the end result, we can say with confidence - it's worth it. This is exactly the case when “old age” brings extraordinary joy and reincarnation! Creates a cosiness, comfort, harmony with the nature.
Purchasing antiques, furniture, kitchen utensils, antique finishes, antiques, mirror and picture frames has always been expensive and expensive. It was so easy to take and buy a table of the last century, a baby cradle, chairs, etc., only collectors, celebrities and wealthy people could, paying huge sums of money.
But years change, technologies change, the craving for vintage accessories and accessories remains unchanged. Now everyone can afford the luxury of living in an old Russian tower, with cracked, seemingly dilapidated from old age and sun-bleached walls, and beams, furniture of those times, wooden benches and a dining table made of natural aged wood. And it's all thanks to wood brushing process.
We are constantly drawn to something new, observing the natural, natural way, the ongoing processes of wood aging, to a visual end result, the demand for such items, people decided to achieve a faster process of fading the life of a tree and invented their own technology of artificial aging with a rather short time period.
Photo 1. Ordinary larch planken wood
Photo 2. Aged planken wood grade BC (C)
Photo 3. Primer with pigment on brushed larch
Photo 4. Finishing painting of brushed planken wood with varnish
So, what is wood brushing for?
At present, it is a fashion trend, with a mass of followers, with genuine envy and a desire to have such things in their homes. Designers are those representatives who do not limit their fantasies and ideas within certain limits. They create masterpieces of art that look like exotic varieties of trees worth a fabulous investment, but in fact these are quite affordable and common materials for anyone who wants to buy them.
Wood brushing technologies are subject to any transformations and colors from dark chocolate to gray-green, as if covered with dust and mold from old age and time, with visible veins and cracks, roughly hewn, with chips or corroded passages from beetles, with gold embossing or silvering, with noticeable wood pores and even imitation of cobwebs, any tones and colors.
Photo 5. Finished wood brushing
The process of brushing wood has found recognition in the manufacture of "antique" furniture, the creation of a certain decor, when taking into account the interior in restaurants, cafes, antique shops, museums - huts, and even in the decoration of apartments, houses and flooring - parquet.
brushing in literal translation from English means "brush" or "cleaning". And for us it is tree structuring. Under natural conditions, aging occurs for a long time, under the influence of the sun, wind, rain, and the surface of the trunk wears out unevenly, so the less durable layers dry out and fall out, leaving solid, deep layers.
Natural phenomena, aging wood, undermine its vitality, and brushing technology, on the contrary, increases the strength, reliability and strength of the material.
Under the brushing process, tree varieties with a pronounced texture pattern and fibrous structure, with medium soft wood in hardness, such as Siberian larch, oak, ash, walnut. The effect and impeccable appearance, brightness and clarity of contrast are based on the scraping of softer layers, their complete removal.
Photo 6. Aged larch planken
But we want to note that WITHOUT subsequent staining or toning, the brushing process will seem unfinished, scanty, complete bad taste.
There are several ways of artificial aging
Mechanical restoration
The whole process consists of:
- pre-treatment of the upper layer with metal brushes;
- grinding with a coarse-grained sandpaper or a polymer abrasive brush;
- by applying coloring compounds or stains to complete the look
aged wood; - varnishing in several layers, and before each new layer, obligatory grinding with fine sandpaper.
The work is done manually or using an electric drill, a brush cutter, a machine with various attachments, in the form of brushes: aluminum, steel and copper, as well as synthetic bristles for polishing and grinding the surface.
Roughing processing
To clean soft fibers, move along their growth. Try to keep the same "speed mode" for the entire surface of the tree. In order not to harm the pattern of annual rings, do not apply too much pressure on the brush to avoid deep scratches and pitting.
Masters, to create a style and era, resorted to rough processing by applying notches, chips on the surface of the product. This practice is used only on large, dimensional objects. We also use a similar experience in working with planken and imitation timber to create decorative panels for interior decoration.
Don't forget about lighting when working - direct the light across the arrangement of the fibers.
Photo 7. Stage 1 - pre-treatment of the top layer with metal brushes
Photo 8. Roughing of the top layer - "Before" and "After"
The blanks are dried to a moisture content of 14 - 16%. In other cases (when the wood is soft), you can not use metal brushes, but use a universal polymer-abrasive component.
How to sand a textured surface
Grinding removes "rags" and residual villi. If there are protruding parts on the surface of the material, then hard grinding is prohibited, this can eventually lead to damage and breakage of parts, use soft aluminum brushes or abrasive ones. When sanded, the surface of the wood acquires a pleasant tactile feature.
How to age wood with paint
Well, when we have betrayed the desired surface relief, reminiscent of past centuries, it is necessary to fix and strengthen this by applying paint. Say what you like, but fresh wood, even with traces of burnout and smoldering, looks somehow ridiculous, as if not completely burned out. We will be helped to radically change the appearance of the surface various colors and shades. The wood will acquire a completely different, chic and presentable look, the contrast between the layers will amaze you!
Photo 9. Applying a primer with a pigment on an aged larch
The most accessible way is stain use, followed by wiping with a rag. The whole action lies in the fact that the composition is instantly absorbed into the soft fibers, when the hard layers do not have time to be saturated with paint. When a pattern is revealed, it acquires a stunning pattern and texture. If you wish, then add any paint, gilding, silver, just be sure to treat the surface with a spatula or rags, this will remove excess paint.
If you decide to make racks, tables and countertops from aged wood, so that debris and crumbs do not get into the cracks and pits, treat the surface with a transparent putty, but only after treatment with a primer stain.
Finishing - polishing and varnishing of the surface
To give the surface a finished and finished look, the last stage of finishing is necessary, this is the application of wax, varnish and final polishing. For application, ordinary acrylate varnish is suitable (a great option), and if you are ready to implement bold ideas, then professional craquelure varnish, which gives out many small cracks, where we later manually rub paint or coal dust and that's all, can be congratulated on creating a unique pattern.
Several photos of the final layer of varnish applied to aged larch planken wood in grade BC (C)
Photo 10. Varnishing the surface of aged larch
Photo 11
Chemical method
Produced to facilitate the process of removing soft fibers, with little or no mechanical impact. Chemical solutions have the ability to dissolve or soften wood fibers. Acids, some alkaline compounds are used. If you use products with a high concentration of active substances, then do without the further use of brushes, just apply and rinse off the solution in several passes.
Work on this method must be carried out in the open air, as harmful and pungent odors are emitted.
All further processing is carried out with the sequence as for mechanical finishing.
Safety is above all
Mandatory protection of the organs of vision and smell with special protective equipment;
wear gloves;
observe safety when working with power tools from electric discharge and rotating elements of mechanisms.
We will be glad if our article was useful.
Among modern finishing materials, natural wood remains an actual element of decor. Popular interior styles Provence, Loft, Colonial require wooden furniture elements to look like our grandmothers used them. The paradox lies in the fact that the older the tree looks, the more successful and noble the owner of such an office or living room appears.
What does the term brushing wood mean?
In the natural environment, wood is gradually subjected to mechanical wear, the surface texture changes unevenly, loose layers are washed out, dense ones remain. It turns out an aesthetic picture created by nature and time. But try to find naturally aged wooden furniture now.
Masters resort to technologies of artificial aging of wooden surfaces. There is a word in English brush - brush, bristles. It gave the name to the term brushing, as one of the methods of aging furniture, interior items.
The essence of the technique is to enhance the texture of the natural wood pattern, by combing loose fibers, followed by treatment with special antiseptics.
Wood brushing is one of the aging technologies that emphasizes the natural beauty and noble texture of the material.
How is the brushing procedure
The essence of the technique is quite simple: the surface is wetted with a chemical composition. Soft fibers absorb liquid. At the next stage, loose parts are selected with a stiff brush. There are solid fibers that form a unique pattern. To enhance the effect, the surface is additionally treated with a dye.
It turns out an interesting stylized texture, with a slight touch of aristocracy and charm.
What tools and materials are needed for work
If you decide to age the sideboard, chair or mantel yourself, then first prepare a set of tools. To work in the brushing technique you will need:
- sandpaper of different grain sizes (coarse-grained is suitable for roughing, fine-grained - for finishing polishing surfaces);
- two or three metal brushes of varying degrees of hardness;
- stain (to give individual elements additional decorative effect);
- paints for tinting;
- matte or glossy varnish for finishing.
For large volumes of work, a cleaning mill is used, which automates most of the aging processes. Replaceable nozzles allow you to perform grinding, polishing, brushing in stages.
Using a power tool speeds up the brushing process When handmade, the product looks more aesthetically pleasing, looks like a piece of goods.
How to age a tree yourself
Brushing a tree with your own hands is done in several stages. Usually the sequence of actions is as follows:
When tinted with a conventional stain, an interesting two-tone texture is obtained.The composition is applied in a thick layer, the excess is quickly removed. Areas with soft fibers have time to stain, and hard layers do not have time to absorb the pigment and remain light.
7. After drying, they proceed to the finishing stage: the workpiece is varnished.
This simple technique allows you to turn an ordinary interior into an elite, expensive, stylish one.
Chalet style interior A fireplace mantel, ceiling beams, headboards, a sideboard made of aged wood emphasize the taste of the owners.
The processing of sawn timber in order to more clearly show their structure, to designate a characteristic pattern is carried out according to various methods. For those who are interested in the practiced technologies of wood aging, . At home, wood brushing (mechanical method) is also done with brushes - manual or in the form of nozzles for household electric / tools. To achieve maximum effect, you need to understand their features and specifics of application. Then it will become clear when and which brushes for brushing are better to choose.
Mechanical processing of wood is divided into 3 main stages. Therefore, in the process of brushing it, brushes with varying degrees of hardness are used. This applies to both hand tools and nozzles for electric / drills, angle grinders, polishing machines. The following are only indicative prices (in Russian rubles), since there are quite a few modifications of devices for power tools - cup, radial, wrist, disk. Yes, and the size of the brushes are very different, and this also affects their cost.
metal
Such brushes are used for rough cleaning of wood.
The difference between them is in the metal of the villi itself. If sufficiently hard rock is subjected to brushing, then it is advisable to work with a steel brush. For soft wood, brass is also suitable. There are also copper brushes on sale, but they are mainly used for finishing lumber, sometimes for polishing it. According to experts, in some cases such a tool is much more effective than polymer analogues.
Price - from 76.
Synthetic
Such brushes are used at the intermediate stage of brushing, when the main part of the pulp from the wood has already been removed, and it remains only to prepare the surface for finishing machining - polishing.
Price - from 37.
Sisal
This type of brushes is made on the basis of natural fibers. They are used at the final stage of brushing wood - for polishing the surface.
Price - from 3 280.
We should not forget about the usual soft (household) brush. When brushing, it will definitely be needed to remove the pulp (dust) selected from the wood.
Price - from 48.
For those who prefer to brush wood with an electric tool, it is advisable to purchase sets of brushes. For example, like this:
The nozzles are already selected according to the degree of stiffness of the fibers, so you don’t have to think about what accessories you should buy at retail for use at different stages of work.