Fractal Burning (my attempt)

Very interesting and unique!

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Looks amazing, I kind of want to try it. I want to see this done to a huge slab of wood.

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Thanks guys!

I agree with the test on a large slab. With Jim’s wands, that allow multiple start points, one could really go crazy burning a large slab tabletop.

I don’t see any hard limit to how far apart the electrodes can be, I’m thinking 4 feet probably will still work as long as there is a layer of conductive liquid (the baking soda mix).

Splinter, I think you are on to something. I know you like A&C style, so you can make some of your “trees”, then inlay leaves on the trees and end with a panel that looks something like this. You may have just created a new art form!

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This is cool

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Splinter, I think you are on to something. I know you like A&C style, so you can make some of your “trees”, then inlay leaves on the trees and end with a panel that looks something like this. You may have just created a new art form!

- AandCstyle

Nice stuff!

Wife.com does glass work so I’m thinking about a way to incorporate some of her work. She saw the Lichtenberg patterns done with glass and wanted me to try that. The problem is they use a particle accelerator to ‘burn’ the glass. I’d have to evacuate the neighborhood down range when I fired that contraption up.

I saw this on “Outrageous Acts of Science.” Very cool effect.

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That is pretty cool!

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Nice work, Bruce! Are you using baking soda and water? Try vinegar and water. it mixes completely and does a real good job too. Those figures are really neat. I am going to do inlay into the deep grooves, but i don’t like to sand them because it removed some of the fine figures at the end of the pattern.

I was going to do a demo for our guild but they cancelled it because the AAW banned fractal burning because 4 guys got killed in the past two years. I redid my two burners with PVC handles high above the contacts and I feel pretty good about the setup now.

Cheers…thanks for the plug!.................Jim

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Nice work, Bruce! Are you using baking soda and water? Try vinegar and water. it mixes completely and does a real good job too.

Jim what kind of vinegar are you using and what is the mixture / amount of vinegar to water? Also have you tried vinegar and baking soda together?

Thanks

Cool-looking stuff, but if the linked story (and comments) are correct then this can be an extremely dangerous subtype of woodworking. Carpe diem…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.detroitnews.com/amp/38900689

To many people are making there own to save money and getting hurt. I have one from Conestoga and they are a very safe unit.

https://conestogaworks.com/woodburners.html

I guess dabbling in the dark arts (EE) has it’s advantages. Anxiously waiting to see how you incorporate this into your woodworking pieces. Like A&C mentioned – maybe time for some inlaid leaves and trees?

-- Earl "I'm a pessamist - generally that increases the chance that things will turn out better than expected"

Nice work, Bruce! Are you using baking soda and water? Try vinegar and water. it mixes completely and does a real good job too. Those figures are really neat. I am going to do inlay into the deep grooves, but i don t like to sand them because it removed some of the fine figures at the end of the pattern.

I’m backed up now with some other work so I haven’t been back to playing. Vinegar is first on my list since you have had such great success 8^)

I’m still thinking on trying to make a “perfect” tree, just seems to be a natural end result.

I was going to do a demo for our guild but they cancelled it because the AAW banned fractal burning because 4 guys got killed in the past two years. I redid my two burners with PVC handles high above the contacts and I feel pretty good about the setup now.

Cheers…thanks for the plug!.................Jim

- Jim Jakosh

Sad to hear!

I understand not wanting to propagate something dangerous, but I believe in Darwin. Of course a spinning sharp blade seems to carry its own warnings whereas invisible electricity doesn’t.

Cool-looking stuff, but if the linked story (and comments) are correct then this can be an extremely dangerous subtype of woodworking. Carpe diem…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.detroitnews.com/amp/38900689

- fuigb

Scary article! I wish they could elaborate on his setup as I’m always curious about failure modes. Nothing is ever fool proof.