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The practice uses high-voltage electricity to create lightning-like patterns. At least 33 people have died attempting it since 2016, according to the American Association of Woodturners.

Steve Burn demonstrates fractal burning patterns using a small transformer in his garage on Friday, February 26, 2021. Steve wets a piece of wood where he wishes the fractal burning to take place.

At least 33 Americans have lost their lives as they burn patterns into wood. Brenda Trudell's husband James was electrocuted while making the artwork as Christmas gifts for the family. He died a ...

"The fractal burning process typically uses a high-voltage transformer, often repurposed from a microwave oven, to flow current across wood items that have been soaked with a chemical solution.

Wood burning, which goes by pyrography when it’s feeling fancy, has been an art form for centuries. [PapaJ06] puts a new twist on it by using a microwave oven transformer to generate fractal … ...

Thirty-three people have died from fractal wood burning since 2017. A Wisconsin couple died from electrocution after attempting a viral art technique in their garage, officials said last week.

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TROUT RUN – A Lycoming County man was electrocuted while utilizing a process known as fractal wood burning. Coroner Charles E. Kiessling said a relative found Joseph Sechrist, 43, dead about 6 a ...