Wood charring is becoming increasingly popular; however, techniques for such wood treatment have not advanced during this time. Using the contact thermal treatment method, we aimed to create the desired parameters for achieving the appearance of a charred surface. After the wood treatment, the samples were additionally protected with two different coatings. We then measured the colour before and after UV light exposure, impact resistance, and coating adhesion on these samples. The charred samples were more resistant to colour changes than untreated wood. However, in testing other coating properties, the performance of the coating deteriorated with increasing charring of the surface, with only brushed samples showing slight improvement. In testing other mechanical properties, such as microhardness and bending strength, we obtained somewhat different results. For microhardness determination, the most charred samples performed very well in both cases, while the lightly treated samples achieved the poorest results. In the bending strength test, even a very short heat exposure time improved this property in the wood. However, this is true only for samples that were in the press for a maximum of five minutes. After longer treatment time, the wood quickly began to lose bending strength.
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