How to make fireworks

Fireworks are great for holidays, celebrations, or just an afternoon thrill. But how exactly can you make your own from home? Though sky-bound explosives are not something you can DIY your way through, there's some super exciting, fiery...

Black powder is one of the common components used in making fireworks. It's the base for many projects including lots of stars, rockets, shell burst and more. This is a series of videos from Skylighter's Turbo Pyro that show you how to mill, mix, weigh and dry the potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal so you'll get a consistent black powder to use for other projects.

How to Make Zinc Cut Fireworks Stars - This is a color star where the color is produced by an elemental metal, rather than a metallic salt, such as when a blue is produced with a copper oxide or carbonate. So, this blue-green color star may be among the oldest star colors that were produced. An added bonus is that this is one of the easiest cut stars to make that I've tried. It's basically a black powder with zinc dust mixed in.

If you don't have ready access to ready-made fireworks shell fuse leaders or quickmatch fuse, then making your own with black match and the paper "pipes" for them may be necessary. Here is on approach to making the quickmatch fuse leader pipes. As well as tip for making quickmatch with black powder instead of black match.

Introduction This project shows you how to make an electric match. The electric match gives you more control over how your fireworks appear in a display. And having invested a significant amount of money and time in a fireworks display, you might just want to enjoy watching it yourself. That's when electrical firing starts to look like a really tasty alternative to matches, lighters, torches, and fusees. Today, there is a wonderful proliferation of electrical firing systems. From the very…

The movies have done it to us all. We can't help ourselves. We love all the explosions and fireballs that Hollywood can throw at us. But it never ceases to amaze me how many people want to make balls of fire in the comfort of their own homes! So, here you go: Fireballs! And best of all: Fireballs You Can Use in Your Coffee! I wish I knew who the genius was that came up with using Cremora to make fireballs. It seemed to come from nowhere in the late '90's. One day my pal, John Smith, called…

Different chemicals make the different colors in fireworks and pyrotechnic compositions. This image shows you some of those chemicals that are used to make the beautiful colors you see in the sky when fireworks burst in the air. Wan to learn more about how fireworks are made? Check out the over 100 free fireworks making projects available at Skylighter.com

In this article I will show you how to incorporate homemade fountains in other creative devices: -I'll mount some gerbs on a frame to create a waterfall. -I'm going to show how to make a very simple, beautiful, color-changing wheel. -I'll create a Chromatrope wheel. -I'll show how to make a simple set-piece in the shape of a star, using two different types of titanium in the silver formula. -And a simple line rocket will be assembled.

Double-voice crackers (DVCs) are effectively a mortar shot without a mortar tube. You can pump these out really fast, and have aerial effects in no time! In this article, we are going to use flying fish fuse for the fuse you light, the internal time-delay fuse, and the burst effect “stars”. Bring your best black powder to this project! These little crackers work best with HOT and FAST black powder. Low-grade BP makes for sluggish performance, and only sends the payload up a couple tens of…