damocov

Special FX seems to be the most appropriate place for this post, a bit of a showing off my video and also a bit of asking for advice.

I've been perfecting my BP making and making simple fountains and have finally got as far as strapping a couple to a staff and starting to run through a basic routine (see video).


http://video.google....089611203549273

However I only get about 15-20 secs burn off these.

Does anyone have a favourite formula for a slow burning fountain that I can try.

I'd like to stretch the burn time to 60secs as it would nicely fit into a set piece performance we already have choreographed alongside another staff juggler, whilst I could do this by extending the tube length this makes the staff much heavier so extending to 30-40cm would I think be a bad idea.

FYI the fountain tubes were 10mm ID and were rammed with 10cm length of BP.

would making the tube ID wider give me more time or would it just give longer fountains?

I've just been asked by a (female) friend in the pub if I can make one of these:

http://www.chocolate...info.asp?ID=216

Now after I'd told her it looked a bit dangerous to try and make an indoor firework with edible stuff wrapped around it due to thedanger of shrapnel injury from the contents (sugar coated almonds - ouch!) and the toxicity of teh BP etc, I started to wonder..

Has anyone seen these before and if so how do they work?

From her original description I'd imagined a low powered mortar effect like the confetti type indoor fireworks you can get however from the looks of this thing it's not like that after all.

(I reckon if we can discuss onion skin as a charcoal substitute then this is a fair topic for discussion, not sure if I've put it in the right place though)

Any ideas how it works ?