as for adding a high value resistor the water as in distilled is already too high.
so if you are going to use a small amount of KOH powder too bring this down, and you want to use resonance then you can do it some different ways to control the current.
You can start with a voltage control then change to current control.
Or you can go another way, if the frequency is high, and the voltage is high, it does not have to be in the kv’s range. With the copper coil and the rise time T being short then the current as it is lagging the voltage any way will not have time to get very high, low current or next to nothing.