"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." A craft hack for “fractal wood burning” is killing American DIYers. It’s an amateur rig made of a ...

Steve Burn isn’t typically the type to try things he sees on YouTube. “I’m not normally that adventurous,” says Burn, of Kirkwood. Then he watched videos of people pumping 6,000 volts of electricity ...

The process uses high-voltage transformers to run electrical currents through chemical-soaked wood. Thirty-three people have died from fractal wood burning since 2017. A Wisconsin couple died from ...

“You don't usually associate beautiful works of art with death,” is how the TV news program Inside Edition began its Sept. 2 report on the dangers of fractal burning, also known as Lichtenberg. The ...

People around the nation are using homemade devices that generate intense currents of electricity to create patterns in wood, a process called fractal burning. And while the technique can result in ...

TOWN OF DAY – Two people found dead after an April 6 house fire in western Marathon County were electrocuted while making art with a "highly dangerous" method called fractal wood burning, officials ...