Great job you done there mate...!:wink:
As soon as I saw it I knew what you done with the pine wood, in fact, the colour gives it away, as no other system will produce anything even close...!
The torch surface burning, is a very old method use with pine woods, from the simple surface coloration to the more deep effect when the burning is a little more "persistent", something that wouldn't work well on a pen barrel being so thin wall wood but, the light burning is certainly very effective on a good selected piece of pine.
Is the resin within the wood that does most of the effects work, apart from the decoration side of the burning, I remember well to use an old style gasoline torch to slightly burn the pine surface to force the excessive resin to come out, as the heat would melt it and push it out to the wood surface. After dry/cool down the surface was then scraped and sanded down to a smooth finish in preparation to either oil painting or cover the wood with a serious of coats of a past that was home made in those days where the Lindsey oil was one of the main ingredients, that had to be boiled by us in old pots that would stink the house and everything else a mile radius for days and days. I just can't remember what this "past" or the method of application is called, damn...!
This was done, particularly to pine wood doors and windows installed in houses, in those days, and before the primer and oil paints are/were applied. This past, type soft patty, would be spread all over the wood surface covering every bit of it and following the wood design/pattern, its application was done with high quality spatulas of different sizes, and by no means, the application of this patty was/is an art, that you see reproduced quite often by the panel-bitters when repairing cars body...!
Anyway, another perfect example of what this pine wood allows, if people would stop calling and treating the Pine wood as simply rubbish, in most cases like here in Australia where people don't want it even for firewood, unless is old red gum, ain't any good, so they say...!
damn fulls...!:biggrin:
Cheers
George