Thunder Art

[CarverJerry]

Ok I seen this guy doing this to some wood at an Ocktober Fest here in our home town. He called it Thunder Art and it was really cool. He told me exactly how to make it, and everything I needed to know to do it. So I picked up an old neon sign transformer that is 12000 Volts @ 30 miliamps. The first thing I did was made a jacobs ladder to show my grand kids...they were impressed at Grandpa since they just seen a Frankstein movie that day and there was one in the movie...then I went on to try it on some wood today. This is just the first time and I'm sure I will figure out what works better for me and the best type of wood too. This is something that has to be done outside because it does smoke a lot so I set it up in my shed. I think it could be used along with the carvewright carvings to give it something the carvewright can't do. This was done in a piece of scrap pine and had to use a little water to help it since it was really a dry piece of wood.

Carverjerry

[LittleRedWoodshop]

That is very cool Jerry ... can you post some pics of the tools.

[CarverJerry]

Not much in the way of tools, just a couple of copper #14 wires hooked up to the transformer, and used a small amount of water to help create a path. Even tried salt water but I think just plain tap water worked best. I also used a brush and tried a spray bottle, each caused different effects. So here are 2 more pictures, the one is with it in operation. I'll see if I can't get a good video of it and put it up on the cnc guild on my pictures (videos).

[fwharris]

Simply hair raising!!

[LittleRedWoodshop]

Very Cool .. . thank you!

[CarverJerry]

I just took a look at my video that I made today, not so good as I need to set the camera up on a tripod, so I will make one tomorrow and post a link to it, sorry but I was a bit nervous and the camera showed it. Yeah it's a little hair raising but I'm bald so that doesn't count with me, LOL, but yeah you really have to be careful using this. Here is a site where the guy that showed me how to do this has some pictures of his work. http://www.thunderwoodarts.com This will give you some ideas how he uses it with his work.

CJ

[b.sumner47]

Very interesting. Capt Barry

[kool69sporty]

Jerry, I just can't wait to see the video you're doing. I am realy intrigued; I like elec-trickry!!
Joe

[CarverJerry]

Ok, well I found my tripod for my video camera and made a very short video, it's posted on You Tube, so here's a link,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3hZyyYNNc

CJ

[b.sumner47]

Jerry, Looks good, real short, but to the point. Works for me. Capt Barry