How to age cherry 30 years in 5 minutes. Antique cherry look in minutes!

How to age cherry wood 30 years in 5 minutes.Cherry is very beautiful and has a lot of potential. When people want "cherry" they want the antique cherry look that takes years to achieve. #woodworking #agecherry 3antiquecherry
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[@johnwhitley2898]

Common household Lye. Gives the cherry a "hundred year old" look in just a few minutes. That's cool! 👍😎

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thanks John

[@limestonecowboy9219]

Most of the cherry furniture in my home was built buy my papa over 30 years ago and I can confirm it darkens greatly. I've noticed a huge difference in the 22 years I've lived here.

[@MickMcMadder]

Skyler, please keep researching, and producing content. You seem to have a knack for finding and sharing information which is outside of the ordinary and incredibly useful. Thank you.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thank you

[@Sebastopolmark]

I won't "lye" that's a great technique! !! !!!

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

:)

[@kevinr1704]

I've never heard of using oven cleaner or lye before. Thanks for sharing this tip! I'll have to remember this.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

You are very welcome. Give it a try! You can also use baking soda dissolved in water but the color won’t be as pretty. Will be more of a grown with green undertones

[@adamcoe]

This is absolutely legit...I am in the middle of making a bunch of beer flight paddles and I ran some experiments on a piece of the cherry I'm going to use, and it works. I actually got the regular spray bottle as opposed to the aerosol as it was much cheaper. I also found that about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes was the best exposure time in my case. Gave it a nice deep red but not overly brown. I went as long as 4 minutes and by then it was extremely dark and not really the classic cherry look you're usually going for. Even a minute can give you a nice change in colour that some people might enjoy, as I imagine the cherry would still age over time as usual underneath whatever shade you got with the oven cleaner. Anyhoo it works very well and I was stunned at how fast and effective it was for making cherry look really incredible. Great stuff!

[@kentturkow1572]

I enjoy watching videos when I can learn something. Thank you for sharing.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thanks for watching!

[@SeaShanty2016]

Thanks for the content. I favour using the iron wool/white vinegar method - don’t need to wash any bad chemicals off. If you are not happy with the outcome and want to get it darker, all you do is paint on a coat of tea - the tea provides additional tannin to darken the wood. PS the longer you keep your iron wool/ vinegar solution, the better it works. Some videos make it seem that you can use the iron wool/vinegar solution after a few hours, but I found it necessary the allow the reaction between the wool and vinegar to take place for a few weeks before using it.😊

[@erickovach]

Great daily videos! You're so prolific. Thanks for sharing this. I didn't know about lye aging cherry. I thought you could only age cherry by putting it in sunlight. I must try this.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

You are so welcome! Thanks

[@johnmay371]

Please keep your videos coming. Very inspiring and educational. I hope to be doing some of the same projects soon.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thanks John

[@kenharper7189]

I must confess...i was expecting the steel wool and vinegar trick. Do not see easy-off coming! 😂😂 Very nice trick of the trade that this old termite didn't know! 👏👏 Bravo Skyler! Bravo!

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thank you very much Ken

[@user-dp3ky3cm4l]

Yes...caustic...Your English is very good....

[@manuelurdaneta2105]

Caustic soda chemical name sodium hydroxide. It destroys every organic material

[@michaelhelle7469]

Very impressive 👏 thanks for sharing this trick.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

My pleasure 😊

[@MrK5man]

Love the look of the finished cherry. Yours was a good solution.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thank you

[@GrandmawsWorkshop]

Just now found this video As usual, it was fantastic I am going to try it very soon Thanks for sharing 😊

[@fredparsons5134]

Interesting Skylar. I just bought a couple boards of curly cherry, might have to give this a try.

[@bruceballew8044]

Super neat trick. I did not know that. I know what to do with my raw cherry wood now. Awesome

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Glad to help

[@ljgault]

Wow, I'm gonna darken my cherry in the future on small boxes for sure.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

me too

[@norm5785]

Wonderful technique, very cool. Only the Yellow can. Thank you for sharing this with us today. Everyone stay safe, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia

[@ga5743]

Thanks for the tip, never saw or heard about that method before.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Glad to help

[@asbrand]

I should have looked for and watched this one before commenting on your other video. Great job! I've used this process several times. Works great!

[@user-up5ef7bd1o]

Baking soda powder (Bicarbonate of soda) dissolved in water, forms carbonic acid and will do the trick. you can play around with the concentration for the desired result.

[@thebigswede1736]

How deep does the new color go into the wood grain. Would light scratching reveal the "new wood" color again?

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

its about 1- 1.5 mm . A light scratch wont show

[@Chaves_Novo_Quiz]

Very nice tip. Thank you very much.

[@katherynlamarche7308]

Thanks so much. I work with cherry a lot. I will try it. Julien

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Please do! Let me know how it went

[@larryb1153]

I tried this and works great for Cherry. Here is something you may want to try. Mustard ! Yes it will stain wood. Would be nice to try on some Canarywood ?

[@joediberardino4419]

I enjoy watching your videos please keep them coming

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thank you! Will do!

[@jalimager]

Love this technique. Thank you for sharing.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

You are so welcome!

[@hoodyr6799]

Awesome technique, and a great video. Thanks!

[@micksidaway]

Great tip; thank you😀👏🏼 As an aside, there is a small town called Lye close to where I live in the UK.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

So cool!

[@PaulMarlmountWoodcrafts]

Brilliant Skyler, thanks for sharing. Paul

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stevehogg]

That's a neat trick. Thanks for sharing.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

You are very welcome

[@kenerickson4923]

Very interesting. My cutting boards are edge grain. I think I will try this on 1 edge of a board and leave the other side white so it will look different when you turn the cutting board over.

[@RYwoodview]

Wow!

[@gsilcoful]

Pretty nice.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thanks!

[@sweetlandsheatingcooling9039]

Great trick! Thanks.

[@alvaroschudeck957]

Very nice color, good tip. Thanks

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@pauldrowns7270]

Does the wood need to be neutralized before finishing with oil, shellac, or varnish?

[@danbuffington75]

3:44 is the part you came to see.

[@burnsm2012]

Will this cause any warping. Thinking about doing this to the cabinet faces I am building

[@byfordbarnard2264]

Never knew that, thanks

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

you are most welcome

[@grahammacneill2298]

Great video,thanks

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@frankstoverpurebloodsaltya6441]

Very cool!!!

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

thanks

[@jimgott119]

I noticed something g when you were cutting on the chop saw. Why is the right fence behind the left fence instead being planar with it?

[@Fine_art_aerial]

2:37 This is dangerous!! Keep the board pushed all the way back against the fence.. Excellent video btw!!

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Will do. Thank you

[@Fine_art_aerial]

@@woodworkingwithSkyler Sorry just seen you have a offset fence on your miter saw.. My bad!!

[@michaelconrad9145]

anyone else have trouble focusing

[@madwilliamflint]

You are an absolute machine with video production. You can make your own lye out of hardwood ash, which brings it full circle.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Wow, I didnt know that. How would process that? boil it?

[@madwilliamflint]

@@woodworkingwithSkyler The fundamental process is: 1) collect a bucket of hardwood ash. 2) pour water through it 3) collect it out the bottom 4) repeat until you have the strength you want Which, given this video, is fascinating because it implies that all the components required for such an "accelerated aging process" are within the wood itself. Now, I'm no chemist (I'm a programmer) so I don't really understand the chemistry of it all. But there's a certain poeticism of it that I find appealing to my sense of order.

[@alid8646]

very nice Skyler! Do you prefer working with Hard or soft wood? Thanks for the videos! learning a lot

[@krazmokramer]

wink wink

[@jenda3322]

Skyler, mám na vás dotaz, ta stolářská dílna je vaše nebo ji máte v pronájmu. Jinak děkuji za excelentní video ok.👍👏

[@user-up5ef7bd1o]

is this Czech?

[@kevinmacomber1336]

This is great. I'm surprised the wood doesn't need to be neutralized.

[@einy2crikey]

Do you think ammonia would work on cherry like it does oak? If it does, I'm sure it wouldn't look as great as your lye version. Trying to find a short cut rather than trying to dry enough cherry to build a piece of furniture.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

I tried baking soda on cherry and it darken it but was more brown with green undertones, not the pretty red tones I like

[@johndaniels9957]

Does the enhanced color fade over time; at what rate? Does the end grain darken more than the face grain?

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

if you seal it with a top coat it shouldnt fade. end grain did turn darker

[@timmienorrie]

👍👍👍

[@steelsunpi]

How would the lye affect Maple? I just finished building a project with maple and cherry. It would be neat to age the cherry, but I'd have to coat tha maple at the same time.

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

I tried it on maple and didn’t like the effect. I tried on maple, poplar, red oak, walnut and cherry. Cherry was the only good one

[@steelsunpi]

@@woodworkingwithSkyler thanks, good to know.

[@rawbacon]

Witchcraft !!

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

:)

[@ezion67]

Would something like sodium hydroxide or hydrogen peroxide also work?

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

Yes, but you will get different results. For example I tried baking soda on cherry and it darken it but was more brown with green undertones, not the pretty red tones I like

[@joshuasmith1215]

Video got really good at 8:18

[@jimgeelan5949]

Cherry is a nightmare to work with ! When your building a big panelled wall or a library, you have to cover every piece of solid or veneered panel every night until it has a finish on it, otherwise the next morning you will have exposed lines on the surface. Hopefully this has helped someone to using cherry

[@woodworkingwithSkyler]

I agree.