**The Art of Working with Wood: A Lesson Learned**

I wanted to focus that is ridiculous, that red is just so rich I'm hoping that that red translates on to what you're seeing but if there's anything I realized in the second round of tasks and to definitely be more aggressive than you think you need to be when brushing the wood which I think is the problem a lot of you guys that have reached out have run into is that you don't want to like ruin your piece of wood right see you don't want to go too aggressive on it I'm not saying you can't ruin it but I'm saying maybe just try to go a little bit more aggressive and see if you get that result that you want. Cool.

**Experimenting with Keda Dye**

Whoa, I didn't think I was gonna make it that time I really didn't think that was gonna work I really thought that I was gonna have some really bad results and then magic happened it was crazy crazy crazy crazy so just goes to show you that just because you hit a roadblock if something doesn't turn out the way you want it to it doesn't mean you shouldn't keep pushing forward that's when that's when just does like great little discovery moments happen and that's what this channel is all about this channel is a community of people that like want to learn but we wouldn't learn from each other we want to reach that next plateau we want to reach that next magical moment for lack of a better term. So I'm glad I got to share that with you today.

**The Product Used: Keda Dye**

The product that I was using today is called Keda dye it's K-E-D-A D-Y-E I believe I'll link to the sample pack down below check it out like I said it's like 17 bucks super easy to work with as far as ratios it seemed like about 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per like 2 ounces of water I know that in the video I used one ounce quite a bit but that was only because I was reducing the amount of dye I was making and I didn't have anything smaller than an eighth of a teaspoon. We did have a slight casualty with the the GoPro I'm pretty sure that all the footage that took for this video on it but when I was getting ready to pull the memory card it came up and it's a camera malfunction on it so she may be dead I'm not sure we'll see alright guys I don't want to take any more your time this I think this video is gonna be long anyway because I've been through several processes and I just want to say thanks to all my subscribers out there thanks to my patrons you guys are the ones that make the videos happen if you haven't subscribed yet please consider hitting that subscribe button it just helps me to continue to put out good content I feel like this video hit that like button if that's your thing smash it if you want to if you really like this video do me a favor share with a friend if you know somebody who's looking for that new wood finish have them checked me out but until next time guys hey thanks for sticking around thanks for uh thanks for having a little whisky with me Clinkies but now I gotta get to work. But man if there's anything I learned from the second round of tests it's that be more aggressive than you think you need to be when starting the UPS truck across the street see kind of the strip that goes down the middle feels like it just wasn't like there was an airplane flying overhead or something would you kick it out of bed for this looks good

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys I'm Nick and this is Build Dad Build where there ain't no  party like a West Coast party and today we're doing a little  experimentation kind of like that one time in college in the hot tub with  that foreign exchange student named Sven you know I'm talking about so  filming us on the off chance that a video will come out of it there's a  likelihood that none of this footage will be used but it should fuel future  content damn that looks good I had a subscriber asked me if I knew anything  about Wood Dye and the answer to that is no I mean I know how to stain wood  he has to be specifically about Keda dyenever heard of it Chuck Norris never heard of herso I went to the Google's and I did find a bunch of  cool images of stuff that people had done but I couldn't find a good video  that really explained exactly how the process work these are powders and  you have to add them to a medium and the first thing you heard is you have  to use lacquer thinner and then I read where you can mix them with alcohol but  then I watched a video where guy just mixes with water and then the ratio is  really confusing like use 1/4 teaspoon you use 1/2 teaspoon use 2 teaspoons  or somebody would contridict themselvesand say well normally use an eighth  of a teaspoon but in this instance I'm using a teaspoon so today I'm going to  set out to see which mediums I want to use what ratios we're gonna start  low and see if those penetrate well enough and just overall see what kind  of results we can gather so if you guys want come along with me on this journey  and let's figure this out together but first we got to burn some wayI interrupt this regularly scheduled video to let you know that we've had  a casualty my my GoPro session flew flew too close to the Sun and got all melty  anyway it's all gross it all melted up I think the footage is still  good though camera seems like it might still work anyway when you're playing  with fire kids be careful where the flames going if you're interested on  helping you pick up a new GoPro camera I have a Patreon page go check it out  at patreon.com/builddadbuild and help me not be such an idiot and now  back to our regularly scheduled program that really sucks man I don't even think  they make the session anymore I think you have to buy the bigger one now and  this was eyes cool because I just throw my pocket you know see if I can find it  use it cuz I think it still works but I can't read the display and also I don't  know what's setting them on and this has some issues but that's a good look  camera okay so here's where we are now we've got our test pieces burned kind  of do varying degrees I don't have a whole lot of faith in this one it's  not looking good the rest of them look pretty good though and before we go any  further just so you have an idea this is the diagram that comes with this on  how to mix ties that's a lot of steps that's a lot of if this then that so  we're gonna try to maneuver through this without it being all alright so  before I go all crazy and start trying to do a million different things on a  million different pieces of wood I wouldn't know to try one thing  one thing that came up over and over again and the materials I read and the  videos I watched was if you want the stain to penetrate real deep just use  water I want to make these dark lines even darker so I'm gonna put a color  on there it's really gonna pop okay so what I have here you get five packets  you get a black one a blue one a red one a yellow one that looks orange and brown  okay so I'm gonna take the black and this is an eighth of a teaspoon which  is pretty pretty sure that's all I need two ounces of warm water and you just  want to mix it around and then you want to let it sit for about ten minutes and  make sure that everything dissolves it okay here goes nothing we're just gonna  apply the black stain with a piece of t-shirt to this piece of woodalright guys so I kind of closed up shop a little early yesterday it started to get  really windy and rainy and a cold front blew in it is like currently  about thirty degrees so I'm freezing but this morning it came down and I  took the nylon brush to the piece of wood that I dyed black yesterday and  I got to say not super impressed of the results here is the piece of wood  that had the black dye on it after I went ahead and hit it with the nylon  brush and here is a piece of wood that just was burned and scraped so I'm not  seeing a whole lot of difference right there that part of the experiment may be  a bust what I'm gonna do now is dye both of these blue I went ahead and  mixed up some blue dye this morning recommendation is that you use warm  water and then let it sit for about 20 minutes I guess the dye has to acclimate  to the water oh so that one is an eighth of a teaspoon of blue dye two ounces of  water and we're just gonna stick with water right now so let's get staining20 minutes later So currently here's where we're at this one right here is  the black dye with the blue this one is the blue dye with no black funny thing  is right here this almost looked green right now but I don't even know if the  blue will translate onto camera right now it's it's very dark a very subtle  okay after good scraping this is the one with the black dye so that's looking a  little better there it's kind of pulling that color out it still looks more green  than blue to me so that wasn't the black dye this is the one without  the black dye kind of a similar result I'm not really seeing like the black  dye isn't really doing anything for me as far as if it's making any sort of a  difference so I think moving forward we're just going to kind of skip the  black dye now maybe I'll do a little bit more resource to see if that's a  viable option in the future but I think we're actually seeing plenty  of darks we want to see more lights to kind of give it that contrast so  next we're gonna take one board I'm gonna mix up some red with water with  lacquer thinner and with alcohol and then we're gonna apply it in three  different spots on this board and see what kind of differences we seeit looks like we got a little bit better progress with the red this is two coats  now and the top piece looks fantastic and get some light on that middle piece  looks okay and then the bottom piece which is the alcohol I can't tell the  difference now granted this is 99 percent alcohol maybe that's just  too much alcohol maybe it needs to be a lower percentage of that I know you can  buy 70 the lacquer thinner looks like it might have its place but what I'm  really liking is what happens when you just use the water and the dye now  that we have a baseline for what works and what doesn't work one of the most  appealing things about the Keda dyes is the fact that you could mix your own  colors so next I'm going to mix or try to mix a purple and an orange the one  that looks orange is actually the yellow pigment you'll see in a second that's a  hot water one more it looks Orange when you slosh up on the side it's yellow  it's about 1/16 red might have been too much yeah that's gonna be orange  same here with the red just a little bit of blue go a little bit more blue that's  that's more of a burgundy I think you said you could even mix them a little  Brown to take the edge off the purple or take the edge off the redokay it is a day later and I've let these kind of sit overnight I'm not  super happy with the results the orange doesn't look too bad the purple which is  kind of more of a more of a wine color it's it's okay it's got some subtlety  to it the first two we did still kind of have that green color to them but  I think I can do better I think we can do better so what we're gonna do is I  went back and reviewed some of the old videos that I was watching and it seems  like what makes this dye really pop is really good contrast we're gonna  cut up some more wood we're gonna burn some deep and some light the light ones  obviously will have a good amount of contrast already because we won't have  that kind of brown intermediate color the ones that you burn deep I'm gonna  take a wire brush to them sacrifice a little bit of the smoothness to try  to really get down to that that light light wood so we can get some really  good contrast that pops then I'm going to take I'm gonna mix up probably five  colors I think and we're just gonna apply that to both types of wood see  what we get I'm wearing my purple maker AF shirt because currently purple is my  white whale I went back and watched a little bit more YouTube on how to get  that purple right we're gonna see if we can get it right today if you like  this shirt it comes in different colors you don't have to get it in purple it's  in my merch shelf down below check it out alright let's get to workall right charred the boards that we're gonna mix our colors I'm gonna do yellow  I'm gonna do green I'm gonna try to do purple again yellow is just yellow  pigment I've got half as much yellow pigment in the second one so 1/8 of  the tablespoon I'm gonna add blue as I go and then it's my understanding that  to make purple it is one part blue two parts red and then you can add a little  brown to kind of round out the color so we've done the I've done the blue  and the red in here and a tablespoon of blue half four tablespoons of red  all right yeah let's get alright while those dyes are acclimating to the water  whatever that means I am going to scrape the char off the deep charred boardsended up not even using a wire brush I used a more aggressive nylon brush  on the drill and it worked great so check this out it's a little  wet because I just just cleaned it off but see how we've got definitely  contrast we've got some lights in there that's what we want to pick  up the color so maybe my first round of experiments could have  just been user error and I just didn't remove enough materialall right it is moment of truth time full disclosure after I dyed the wood  and let it dry I hit it with the couple of coats of Krylon lacquer this stuff's  fantastic if the board seemed kind of shiny that is why now let's check out  our results first we have the purple I still didn't get the color I want I  don't know what this color either I want it kind of uh a little bit  more of a royal purple but I did get a purple here's the deep burn with  purple and here is the light burn with purple so you've got a better contrast  over here but this didn't take the purple nearly as well I think it's  because this was already so dark next up we have the blue kind of a similar  situation I think you can see the blue a little bit better but it's  still a dark dark blue this is the light burn light burn again just didn't take  that stain as well next we have green which kind of similar thing I don't  know if that's gonna really translate it's gonna look really dark here's the  green on the light burn doesn't look too bad come on lime color alright  so here's where you're gonna start really seeing back they get kind of  the winners of the show here this is the light burn yellow looks pretty good huh  if you saw that you wouldn't be mad at that you wouldn't kick this out of bed but if this was in bed with you would you kick it out of bed for this damn  that looks good mmm don't smell that so this next one I have to admit may  have been a little bit of user error but the the light burn orange looks  like I didn't get enough orange like enough dye on it mainly there's this  kind of light now looking at it looks like that's SAP which just like made  the dye not stick to that part but still not a bad result but then you got thislook at how ridiculous that orange looks like I said the warm tones are  definitely stealing the show here is the red on light burn still not too  bad not too bad alright alright I see you I see you do you still  see me look at that if I can get it to focus that is ridiculousthat red is just so rich I'm hoping that that red translates on to what  you're seeing but if there's anything I realized in the second round of tasks  and to definitely be more aggressive than you think you need to be when  you're brushing the wood which I think is the problem a lot of you guys that  have reached out have have run into is that you don't want to like ruin  your piece of wood right see you don't want to go too aggressive on it I'm not  saying you can't ruin it but I'm saying maybe just try to go a little bit more  aggressive and see if you get that result that you want cool oh what's  up guys whoa I didn't think I was gonna make it that time I really didn't think  that was gonna work I really thought that I was gonna have some really bad  results and then magic happened it was crazy crazy crazy crazy so just goes  to show you that just because you hit a roadblock if something doesn't turn  out the way you want it to it doesn't mean you shouldn't keep pushing forward  that's when that's when just does like great little discovery moments happen  and that's what this channel is all about this channel is a community of  people that like want to learn but we wouldn't learn from each other we want  to reach that next plateau we want to reach that next next magical moment for  lack of a better term so I'm glad I got to share that with you today the product  that I was using today is called Keda dye it's K-E-D-A D-Y-E I believe I'll link  to the sample pack down below check it out like I said it's like 17 bucks super  easy to work with as far as ratios it seemed like about 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon  per like 2 ounces of water I know that in the video I used one ounce quite  a bit but that was only because I was reducing the amount of dye I was making  and I didn't have anything smaller than an eighth of a teaspoon we did have a  slight casualty with the the GoPro I'm pretty sure that all the footage that  took for this videos on it but when I was getting ready to pull the memory  card it came up and it's a camera malfunction on it so she may be dead  I'm not sure we'll see alright guys I don't want to take any more your time  this I think this video is gonna be long anyway because I've been through  several processes and I just want to say thanks to all my subscribers out  there thanks to my patrons you guys are the ones that make the videos  happen if you haven't subscribed yet please consider hitting that subscribe  button it just helps me to continue to put out good content I feel like this  video hit that like button if that's your thing smash it if you want to  if you really like this video do me a favor share with a friend if you know  somebody who's looking for that that new wood finish have them checked me  out but until next time guys hey thanks for sticking around thanks for uh thanks  for having a little whisky with me Clinkies but now I gotta get to workbut man if there's anything I learned from the second round of tests it's  that be more aggressive than you think you need to be when you're  starting the UPS truck across the street see kind of the strip that  goes down the middle feels like it just wasn't like there was an airplane  flying overhead or something would you kick it out of bed for this looks good\n"