{"id":12575,"date":"2020-09-27T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2020-09-27T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T14:19:41","slug":"video-your-guide-to-woodworking-with-wenge-lumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wood-conversations\/video-your-guide-to-woodworking-with-wenge-lumber\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Your Guide to Woodworking with Wenge Lumber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ksUYHcgCzK4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a good chance that no other hardwood can offer the mystique that wenge displays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a degree, we came close with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wood-conversations\/video-heres-what-roasted-oak-lumber-is-all-about\/\">roasted oak lumber<\/a> &#8211; it has the black color and grainy texture. It&#8217;s not a dead ringer for wenge, but it comes close to giving you a similar visual effect in a finished project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d be be tone-deaf if I didn&#8217;t at least confess that roasted oak also costs less than a third of wenge. So there&#8217;s that. While the list of pros and cons in a comparison of the two woods has some merit &#8211; indeed they&#8217;re still a bit different from one another &#8211; this isn&#8217;t the time for that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we want to point the spotlight at wenge and illuminate all of its mysterious splendor because it has a personality of its own and an appearance that, I repeat, is not easy too substitute out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s a 9-minute watch that I hope helps expand your woodworking boundaries a little bit by taking a dive into what makes wenge so special.  We&#8217;ve got some reasons to choose it for your projects, what to know about working with it, and of course a bunch of tips on how to finish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"postheadline wp-block-heading\">What About Bleaching Wenge?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d also submit to your consideration a fun side note about wenge. You can soak your project in common household bleach for about 30 minutes to pull out an amazing look, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns the brown layers white, keeps the black layers black. Check out 5:25 in the video for the visual. <\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What else can possibly offer the mystique that wenge does?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,181,3],"tags":[28,11,309],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-videos","category-wood-conversations","tag-exotic-wood","tag-hardwood","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}