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#1 Sparky

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Posted 25 August 2012 - 11:30 AM

Hi all,


Pyroguide seems to be a good source of comps for a newbie such as me but it seems to have been down quite a while. Does anyone know if it will be coming back up or if the webmaster is contactable?

I've actually taken the liberty of grabbing all the data from archived sources just in case as some of the stuff was really useful.

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Posted 25 August 2012 - 12:04 PM

IIRC "Admiraldonschneider" was familiar with the domain user. However though the site had many items of information very little was original or developed by them. Lots was collated from other sources without regard for ownership or credits. While the site was a convenient source of info it is all to be found elsewhere.

Books by Shimizu, Lancaster, and Fulcanelli would grace your shelf and provide lots of useful info.
http://www.movember.com/uk/home/

Keep mannequins and watermelons away from fireworks..they always get hurt..

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Posted 25 August 2012 - 04:33 PM

IIRC "Admiraldonschneider" was familiar with the domain user. However though the site had many items of information very little was original or developed by them. Lots was collated from other sources without regard for ownership or credits. While the site was a convenient source of info it is all to be found elsewhere.

Books by Shimizu, Lancaster, and Fulcanelli would grace your shelf and provide lots of useful info.


Thanks Arthur, it was a handy source on the web with a good basic set of comps. Those books are pretty expensive so which would you recommend most of all? Shimizu?

#4 Arthur Brown

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Posted 25 August 2012 - 04:47 PM

Lancaster would be my first buy. Shimizu takes some getting into his style of writing. and Fulcanelli is all about Italian (mostly) cylinder shells which approach the Maltese shells. Shidlovskii's book sometimes appears on ebay, Weingart has been reissued and is available via ebay and Abebooks.co.uk Lots of others exist.

Remember that the knowledge you gain from these books will assist you in preserving your body parts -missing fingers cost more than a couple of books.
http://www.movember.com/uk/home/

Keep mannequins and watermelons away from fireworks..they always get hurt..

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Posted 25 August 2012 - 06:03 PM

And you can always try The Green Man :)
Teaching moft plainly, and withall moft exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation (John Bate 1635)
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Posted 27 August 2012 - 09:53 PM

And you can always try The Green Man :)


Hi Phil

I've been on your website. Are you selling books? I can't see if you are and possibly I'm being a bit dense :-)




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Posted 28 August 2012 - 12:09 PM

Hi Phil

I've been on your website. Are you selling books? I can't see if you are and possibly I'm being a bit dense :-)





Hi Mate - No I don't sell books, though there is a review of some. The GreenMan does intend to write a book some time, but it's only at the 'thinking about' stage at the moment...

Otherwise, the site is free information out of the goodness of my heart! :)
Teaching moft plainly, and withall moft exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation (John Bate 1635)
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Posted 12 September 2012 - 10:21 AM

I bought a CD on ebay a couple of days ago, search pyrotechnics ebooks, it has 100 or so ebooks on the CD, I haven't managed to check them all out yet but there are some good ones on there, though most of them seem to be about the construction of various fireworks, it depends what you are looking for. :)

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Posted 12 September 2012 - 10:22 AM

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item19cf6a2e65




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