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Fractal wood burning video8/30/2023 If I had a string hanging down, or if my hair got caught in it, that would be big trouble.”ĭifferent woods react to the process differently. It’ll arc over the wood – it won’t even burn into the wood – so it’s just like a physical stream of electricity between the two electrodes. “If I get too close to the other electrode, I’d say within six inches, the electricity will arc between the two electrodes. He works with wood pieces longer than a foot, “which gives the burn some time to kind of spread out and make a cool design, whereas if it’s a really small piece of wood, there’s not much design because it doesn’t have time to spread out.”Īnother reason for working with the longer pieces of wood is to avoid arcing of the electricity. Then from there, it’ll spawn more branches, and then I can keep following which branch I want. If I want it to go to the right, to the left, or straight forward, I can move it to which branch I want to continue. “When I touch down on the wood, it sends out, for example, five branches, and I can let that burn in for about 5 to 10 inches, and then I can pick up the electrode and move it to which branch I want it to follow. ![]() This is to give him some control of the design created through the burning process, which Evan describes as resembling, in general, tree-like patterns or branches of lightning. Evan says he places the negative electrode down on the wood for a burn, while holding the second electrode – “It has PVC pipes and rubber clamps around it and I have the gloves on, so it’s safe.” Two electrodes, a positive and a negative, are involved in the process. I mean, water and electricity: two things you’re not supposed to mix, but that’s how it’s able to burn into the wood,” Evan said. “It’s just a water-like solution that makes the wood conductive. To begin a burn, he soaks the entirety of each piece of wood he’ll be working with in a sodium bicarbonate solution. I just use a microwave transformer - I have a couple of them hooked together for extra voltage.” “There’s different voltages associated with whatever power source you want to choose. “You can find them in microwaves or oil burners or even neon signs,” Evan said. The machine used for this type of woodburning is made from a high-voltage power transformer. It’s not worth it just to burn something cool into a piece of wood if you’re not going to be safe about it.” I cannot stress enough how careful people have to be. I have rubber shoes, rubber gloves, al that. ![]() So I learned my lesson, and I take all the safety precautions, like a rubber mat. I have shocked myself once, and I was lucky to be wearing rubber-soled shoes, because that’s what stopped the voltage from making contact with the ground. ![]() I play around with about 2,000 volts of electricity. To be clear, Evan notes, “It’s extremely dangerous. Inspired originally by a picture of someone else doing the same thing, Evan, said, “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s awesome! I want to try that.’” It’s not worth it.“What guy doesn’t like to play with fire and electricity?” So says Evan Blomquist, who has been doing just that for the past couple of years, as he uses fractal burning to create designs on wood. “It’s just a dangerous form of art,” he said. Timothy returned home with a message for others after a couple of surgeries and three weeks in the hospital because no amount of beauty in his artwork could make up for what he nearly lost. According to the Woodworking Network, it’s a controversial process that has caused injuries and even death. That’s when he and his family learned just how dangerous fractal burning is. “They were checking me over and he said yeah we actually see a lot of these accidents,” Timothy said of his doctor. ![]() Timothy went to the hospital and was then transported to the University of Utah Burn Center. “I remember just gasping for air…looking down and seeing the smoke coming off of my gloves that were basically welded to my hands.” “My eyes were rolled back to my head and I wasn’t breathing so they started CPR and got me back,” Timothy said. Jayden saw his dad collapse, shut off the power and grabbed his grandpa. “He did everything right and saved my life basically,” he said. And he would have remained that way he said, were it not for his 12-year-old son Jaydan. Timothy remembered thinking he was a dead man.
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