Woodwork With Electricity Use Electricity to Burn Sporadic Designs in Wood - Using Electricity to Make Artist Designs in Wood

Using a transformer from an old 1000w lighting fixture I am able to arc a current threw wood and create random designs in it. I do not recommend you try this without electrical experience and i am not responsible for you hurting yourself.

1. Water
2. conductive powder to mix with the water
3. two screws
4. 1000W lighting transformer for an exterior lighting fixture
5. enough wire to run 3 or 4 feet away from your transformer to wooden plank
6. a piece of wood a few feet long

OK so this is what I did again I do not recommend you try this without electrical experience and i am not responsible for you hurting yourself.

1. I ran 2 screws into my board a good distance apart in this video you're looking at almost 2 feet apart
2. I hooked the ground (green wire) or wire connected to something at least 8feet in the ground to one screw and I Hooked the hot wire coming off of the 1000w transformer (wire going from the transformer to the bulb that carries voltage) to the other screw
3. get some water and mix some conductive powder into it like graphite powder or something electricity can travel through... so I used graphite powder but there are other things you can use. If you have a red solo cup full of water, I'd start with a measuring cups worth of your powder,
4. with the power off I do not energize the transformer yet, I'll use a towel and slosh some of my water mixture onto the board and get it good and wet in between both screws. like all the way from one screw to another.
5. Step back and turn the power on I do not touch the board or anything around it while the power is on.
6. If I am not seeing the electricity start burning its way from on screw to another, I turn the power off and make my mixture with water a little thicker and then reapply to the board step back and try agian