How to Make Fireworks

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Cheap Barium Nitrate Emerald Star Formula

Here's some firework stars you can make with all that barium nitrate once you grind it fine. I know: "it's impossible to get a great green firework star using barium nitrate." But try this one and see if you don't...

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How To Make Tourbillion Spinning Fireworks

Tourbillions are an old form of spinning fireworks that used to be much more popular in public displays but today are never seen except as very small and simplified consumer fireworks. Also known as whirlwinds, geysers and table rockets, they...

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Film Canister Firework Shells

This is a great project if you are new to homemade fireworks shells or are cursed with a small space in which to shoot your experiments. Thanks to John Shupe for providing this well written and clear article. This is...

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Tiger Willow Shells in 2-1/2 Days, Day 3

This is the final installment in a series of articles chronicling Ned Gorski's efforts to produce two traditional 8", Tiger-Willow, paper ball shells, including handmade stars, burst powder, spolette time fuse, lift powder and quickmatch, all at a weekend pyro...

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Making Uniformly Sized Round Firework Stars

If you have ever seen a really high quality color-changing spherical artillery shell, you may have noticed that the firework stars all seem to change colors at exactly the same time. The firework stars can actually look as if they...

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How To Cut Your Own Homemade Rocket Sticks

Making your own sky rockets is an extremely satisfying project for both beginner and advanced firework makers. Getting your sky rockets to fly straight is an essential part of the process, and wooden sky rocket sticks are the simplest and...

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Realgar & Orpiment

My old pal Bob Winokur has been doing some pyro-sleuthing and came up with a small stash of two pyro chemicals which are largely unobtanium now: Realgar and Orpiment, both arsenic compounds. He was able to supply us with a...

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How to Make Yellow Glitter Stars

Glitter is That Silver Twinkly Part at the Bottom of These Brocade Shells Photo Courtesy of Tom Handel This is a gold brocade shell. Glitter is hard to depict in slow-shutter-speed fireworks photographs, but you can get an idea of...

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