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Fireworks ProjectsHomemade Fireworks Projects and Pyrotechnic FormulasConsumer Fireworks
Learn how to make consumer fireworks mortar racks for festival balls using milk crates and HDPE mortar tubes.
Learn how to make your 4th of July Fireworks Display better with visco fuses and electric firing systems.
Learn how to use consumer fireworks festival ball artillery shells with Skylighter mortar tubes and mortar racks.
Learn an easy and reliable way to attach ematches to consumer fireworks or visco fuse for electric ignition.
How to best use your consumer fireworks festival balls, mortar tube selection, make mortar racks and fuse your artillery shells fireworks together.
Learn how to make a 20-shot festival ball mortar rack for your Fourth of July backyard fireworks display with reusable fiberglass tubes.
Igniting Fireworks: Fusing, Electrical Firing
Learn how to use other firework fuses for cross matching including quickmatch, visco cross match and paper firecracker fuse.
Learn how to make ematches, also known as squibs or igniters, using firework chemicals and Skylighter's electric match heads.
Learn how to easily make your own homemade quickmatch fireworks fuse.
Learn an easy and reliable way to attach ematches to consumer fireworks or visco fuse for electric ignition.
Learn different methods for making electric matches (also called ematches or squibs) for electrically firing fireworks displays.
How to make igniters, also known as squibs or ematches, for electrical ignition using small pieces of circuit board, nichrome wire and solder.
Learn how to make Kraft paper match pipe for making homemade quickmatch fireworks fuse.
How to make a simple fireworks electric firing system using an electric fence power unit and dark flash powder.
Mines
How to make a crackling mine firework cake using crackling stars (dragon eggs) obtained from consumer fireworks crackling balls.
Learn how to make a colored flammable liquid fireball known as a Ghost Mine using firework chemicals.
Learn how to make fireworks mines using Skylighter flying fish fuse.
Learn how to make fireworks mines, an effect that shoots firework stars into the air from a mortar tube.
Other
Learn how to make a ball mill cabinet for soundproofing while ball milling chemicals.
How to safely and effectively use a ball mill to grind pyrotechnic materials.
Learn hand ramming techniques used to ram pyrotechnic compositions into tubes for making homemade fireworks.
Learn how to make copper salicylate to use in whistle mix for blue rockets.
Learn how to coat your fireworks paper mortar tubes with a varnish to help protect them for longer use.
How to make a fireball with non-dairy creamer.
How to build a drying rack chamber to safely dry pyrotechnic compositions.
Learn how to mill small batches of firework chemicals using a cheap coffee grinder you can buy at Walmart.
Pyrotechnic formula for creating a fire starter composition, which is great for emergency fire starting.
Learn how to make multi-shot homemade fireworks firing boards; these are like large firework cakes.
Compare the different grades of black powder for use in pyrotechnics and fireworks.
How to properly define metal particle size and shape
Learn how to make a 5 gallon bucket screen for separating ball milling media from ball milled materials.
How to make good homemade charcoal for use in blackpowder and fireworks stars.
Learn a simple technique for rolling round homemade fireworks stars in a large bowl.
PGI grandmaster Ned Gorski teaches you how make and test high-powered black powder with red gum.
Learn how to make a better rocket nozzle mix using bentonite clay, grog and paraffin wax.
Learn how to understand mesh sizes and microns and how to convert one to the other.
Learn the different metal powder particle shapes used in pyrotechnics and how to understand particle size descriptions.
How to choose the appropriate media for safely ball milling black powder and other pyrotechnic materials.
Learn how to make your cardboard paper end plugs fit better into your firework tubes.
This article explains how to coat aluminum powder with boric acid to stop corrosion of the aluminum powder in firework star compositions.
Learn how to easily rewrite fireworks formulas from parts per weight to percentages.
Learn how to build a drying box using desiccant (calcium chloride) for drying out firework stars and other hygroscopic materials.
Learn how to make homemade fireworks sparklers with a strontium nitrate pyrotechnic formula.
Learn to understand kraft paper grain and how to use the grain to your advantage while building fireworks
Learn how to make a volcano classic High School chemistry demonstration with Ammonium Dichromate.
Other Fireworks
Learn how to make blue fireworks fountains also known as gerbs.
Learn how to make fireworks strobe pots using a simple pyrotechnic formula.
Learn how to make a firework crack ball using a simple pyrotechnic formula.
Learn how to make a sparkler using falling leaves and flying fish fuse.
Learn how to make colored smoke bombs with organic powdered dyes.
An excerpt from the Westech Manual explaining how to make firework wheels including a flying Dutchman, saxons and comet wheels.
Pyrotechnic formulas and techniques on how to make fireworks wheels known as Saxons.
Learn how to make homemade tourbillion spinning fireworks, also known a whirlwinds, geysers and table rockets.
Learn the pyrotechnic formula and techniques used to create a fireworks waterfall effect.
Learn how to make senko hanabi sparklers.
Rockets
Learn how to make blue strobe rocket fuel using a simple pyrotechnic formula.
Pyrotechnic formulas for making red, green, blue, and green homemade rockets with pyrotechnic chemicals.
PGI grandmaster Ned Gorski teaches you how make end-burner black powder rockets.
Learn a pyrotechnic formula for making rocket engines using firefly aluminum powder.
How to make a firework rocket fuel for red and green tailed homemade rockets.
Learn how to make black powder rockets using Skylighter rocket tooling.
How to Make Fireworks: Stinger missile black powder rocket engines using Skylighter rocket tooling and rocket tubes.
Learn how to make a better rocket nozzle mix using bentonite clay, grog and paraffin wax.
Learn how to easily cut your own sky rocket sticks from a length of wood using a tablesaw for your homemade rockets.
Learn how to make sugar rocket engines using only sorbitol and potassium nitrate.
Learn how to make rockets using visco fuse as the rocket engine.
Learn how to make the pyrotechnic composition whistle mix for whistle rocket fuel.
Learn how to make white strobe firework rockets using a simple pyrotechnic formula.
Learn how to make a small homemade rocket powered by flying fish fuse.
Shells
How to make 4 inch aerial shell fireworks with zinc fireworks stars.
How to coat rice hulls with homemade black powder to make fireworks burst charge to break fireworks shells.
How to make homemade aerial fireworks using film canisters.
Learn how to make Go Getter firework stars an animated star used in aerial shells or mines that swims all over the sky.
Part 1 of a 3 part series on how to make 8 inch fireworks aerial shells in 3 days.
Part 2 of a 3 part series on how to make 8 inch fireworks aerial shells in 3 days.
Part 3 of a 3 part series on how to make 8 inch fireworks aerial shells in 3 days.
Special Effects
Learn how to make a poof of smoke stage special with flash powder and a flash pot.
Learn how to make blue flames in your campfire with copper chloride, also known as campfire blue.
Learn how to make a colored fire flame projector for stage special effects, colored fire flames or backyard fun.
Learn how to make a special effects fireball with cremora coffee creamer.
Stars, Comets and Compositions
A formula for red homemade fireworks stars for firework aerial shells, mines and other pyrotechnic effects.
Learn how to use black powder and flash powder to make the break charge for homemade crossette comet firewoks.
Learn how to make a mortar rack to shoot individual fireworks stars like mini comet fireworks.
How to make fireworks dragon eggs crackling stars cheaper with bismuth subcarbonate.
Learn about pyrotechnic chemicals known as chlorine donors, their uses in pyrotechnic formulas and the amount of chlorine they give off.
Two pyrotechnic formulas for firework stars using the firework chemical copper benzoate.
Pyro star compositions that use copper powder to create green and blue firework stars and strobe pots.
Fourteen homemade fireworks cut star pyrotechnic compositions.
An article on how to make cut stars for fireworks in an hour or less by Ian von Maltitz.
Learn how to evenly dampen small and large batches of firework star compositions with water.
A green stars firework formula using barium nitrate as the oxidizer.
Pyrotechnic forumla for making firefly aluminum firework stars.
How to make green firework stars including a pyrotechnic formula that does not contain barium nitrate or barium chlorate.
Learn how to make pillbox firework stars including color pyrotechnic formulas for pink stars, red stars and yellow star.
Learn how to make beautiful gold glitter firework stars.
Learn a pyrotechnic formulas for making beautiful long hang time fireworks stars using firefly aluminum powder.
Learn various methods and firework tools used for pressing comets including comet pumps and comet plates.
Learn how to size your round firework stars with a star sizing screen when making coloring changing stars.
Learn a few pyrotechnic formulas for making willow firework stars and pyrotechnic comets.
Learn a black powder formula using palm tree charcoal that’s great for making fireworks stars and comets.
Learn how to properly test your firework stars using a star gun to see how they will look in the air.
An award winning blue fireworks star pyrotechnic formula from an FPGA blue star competition.
Learn how to make blue fireworks stars with copper powder, includes many blue pyro star compositions.
A comparison of pyrotechnic formulas for blue fireworks stars using various pyrotechnic chemicals.
An easy pyrotechnic formula color system for making fireworks stars using various fireworks chemicals.
Learn what the firefly aluminum powder firework effect is and how these firework stars with several pyrotechnic formulas.
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