Fireworking 101

Fireworking 101

Introduction:

This is a course in basic fireworking materials, processes, and devices. This course is available to the public, not only to Fireworking.com subscribers, with the intent of getting a beginning fireworker off to a safe, fun, and successful start. Enjoy.

Fireworking 201 is available to subscribers, and builds on the basics of FW 101, introducing Black Powder making and testing, construction of a BP maroon, making stars, and using them in aerial fireworks mines, shells, and rocket headings, which are lifted on black-powder charcoal-tailed rocket motors.

Materials List

Lesson #1: Safety

Lesson #2: Screens and Their Use

Lesson #3: Drying Box

Lesson #4: An overview of the chemicals used in the course 

Lesson #5: Working with a Formula 

Lesson #6: Pulverizing a Chemical 

Lesson #7: Weighing the individual chemicals for a composition

Lesson #8: Screen mixing a composition 

Lesson #9: Making Blackmatch 

Lesson #10: Making Match Pipe

Lesson #11: Videoing our Devices, and the Value of Doing So 

Lesson #12: The Clove Hitch Knot

Lesson #13: Making Gerbs

Gerb cross-section

Lesson #14: A "W" of three gerbs, fused together

Lesson #15: Metal-Spark and Effect-Changing Gerbs

Lesson #16: Making Wheels, Using Gerbs as Drivers

Lesson #17: Making Fireworks Chromatrope Wheels

This completes Fireworking 101. I'll now be embarking on FW 102.