I found two of these at a flea market, covered in a blotchy coat of opaque pasty residue - perhaps a varnish gone horribly wrong. I could tell it was wood by looking inside. I stripped the outside, sanded smooth and used a wood bleach to lighten it a bit, then burned and finished with danish oil. #LichtenbergFigures #Woodworking #Art

I found a rusty brush axe head at the bottom of a box of metal parts in the basement of a second hand shop. After refinishing I learned it was a Collins blade, a company with a long history of creating strong tools for serious work. The handle is hictory adorned with #FractalBurns and finished with linseed oil. A friend of mine gave it to his father who used to work for Collins. #Woodworking #Art #LichtenbergFigures

I found this wooden serving bowl for free on the curb near my house. It was painted baby blue and had numerous scrapes from the sidewalk. I sanded, then added a #FractalBurn down the side, finished with beeswax and mineral oil. #Woodworking #LichtenbergFigures #Art

Thank you for including me, I am glad to be here. As an #Introduction - I live in #Petaluma CA USA, in beautiful #SonomaCounty. I am an artist, activist, & angler. I help run a technology company focused on the public and nonprofit space and a local community space. I follow and post about #Woodworking including #Woodturning and #LichtenbergFigures, #Photography, #PublicTransit, #TreeCanopy, #SalmonidRestoration, #Antisemitism & #Oppression, and #Politics.

Discarded olive wood bowl, refinished & fractal burned. #FractalArt #Woodworking #LichtenbergFigures

I found some tattered bamboo cups at a second hand shop in Petaluma. After sanding out the scuffs & burning, I finished them with food safe mineral oil. #LichtenbergFigures #fractalburn #woodworking

Erratic burns on a shrill instrument seems fitting. #FractalArt #WoodBurning #LichtenbergFigures