By Ned Gorski This is Your Audience This is a Big Honkin' Fireworks Rocket This is Your Audience on Fireworks Rockets! Rockets Obviously, in this introduction to rockets, we won't be discussing military rockets, which have a long and rich...
Maybe you've never made an aerial fireworks shell before. Or perhaps you are just stepping up in size to 3-inch shells for the first time. Or perhaps you've just finished a batch of stars and you can't wait to see...
This is the second part of Ned Gorski's ground-breaking method which shows you how to make finished stars in 3 hours or less. There are two critical components that make this new "rubber stars" method work. First the star compositions...
"ee-roh ah-OH-ee" Japanese for the Color Blue In the endless pursuit for the very best blue firework star color available, we consumed a large quantity of time and firework chemicals. I have seen what I perceived to be very good...
Finished Stars - Ready to Use in 3 Hours! At a certain point, whether for aerial fireworks, mines, roman candles, or rocket headings (or all of these), you're going to need stars, and lots of them. In addition to spark-producing...
Comets are really nothing more than an oversize cylindrical firework star fired from a mortar to produce a single rising effect in the air. Like firework stars, comets can be made in numerous variations such as color, tailed, strobe and...
It has come to my attention that the Chinese are making bigger and bigger assortments of festival balls (or "artillery shells" or "reloadables") but still supplying just one or two measly little mortar tubes for them (yes, Virginia, the TUBE...
Introduction One of my favorite effects is a nice gold glitter comet. This is also one of the easiest and most impressive beginner pyro projects. Make some homemade black powder and one of these simple projectiles, and you are ready...
These little, quick-and-easy shells are perfect for testing stars in a star shell, and also for simple shells for a backyard display. You can even attach gold glitter rising tails to the top of them. With a little assembly line,...
Black Powder, otherwise known as BP, is used for various purposes in fireworking: lift powder for aerial shells and comets and mines, burst powder for shells and rocket headings, propellant in roman candles. Commercial fireworks manufacturers have traditionally used commercial...
Learning to make stars using a star pump is a useful exercise. There are a bunch of ways to make fireworks stars. Each method has its advantages, so there really isn't a best or right method to use for all...
Introduction To understand the difference between parallel and spiral wound fireworks tubes read the heading above the tube section on the Skylighter website. There are lots of different diameter and length tubes listed in that section. Why would we need...
