Below is a link to a process I saw a couple of years back at a scroll saw picknick.  The process is called Lighting Wood.

 

 

Very interesting designs can be made.  Saw it done for a 30 inch plaque.  This could be used across all disciplines of wood working I would think.

 

DW

David, I have never seen anything like that before, that is waaay cool. I can see using this process in a case work project such as a media cabinet console where there is a lot of surface exposed on the front, and a design like this could be the showcase, it reminded me of Japanese gardens. Imagine this on front of some maple case work, wow! Thanks for the great idea David.

I thought this would look cool on a vase turning.

I tried it with a neon sign power supply producing maybe 50 thousand volts.  I got a very small result. It was unsatisfying. I figures  what the heck and tried it with my DC welder and got nuthin.  But I did not use saline I used Baking soda.

Maybe I'll try saline.

These people are using a neon sign transformer with a Variarc

 

 

 

The demo I saw a couple of years back the guys setup was doing 15kv and he explained that he had tried various solutions until he came up with the one he is using now.

Spectacular watching the electricity doing its thing through the wood