Lightning struck lumber effects

[jzahrt]

Is it true that live trees struck by lightning can have some weird coloring through the grain?

[Woodpecker52]

Charcoal!

[Magicman]

Different species will exhibit different effects.  It also matters whether the tree survived the lightening strike and "healed" grew over the dead/damaged portion.

[busenitzcww]

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Lightening hit this oak and did some cool stuff! The rest of the tree had a big black streak about a foot wide in the middle, like there was metal but I never hit anything....


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[esteadle]

I met this guy at the CPFA this year - Dan Kepner.

He electrocutes wood on purpose to give it an artistic effect. 
Check the guitar. 
https://andalog.com/

[moodnacreek]

Lightning strikes ruin good logs unless the crack is straight and only one. Normally the log is spiral cracked.