Firing Systems
Recently I became a reseller of amature/hobby grade electronic firing systems. You can
see a listing of the systems I have available here.
Pyrotechnics
For the last 2 1/2 years I've been working with Hollywood Pyrotechnics Inc.
as a professional pyrotechnics display operator. I've participated in the setup
and firing of 7 professional fireworks shows. I am currently working on getting
my Minnesota and Federal Pyrotechnics licenses. My current licese only allows
me to work with display fireworks when working under the supervision of one of the
leads with Hollywood Pyro.
Working fireworks displays is one of those strange jobs that is at once exotic and
very mundane. Although we are working with explosives (at times shells with
several pounds of explosives in them) the fact is that 90% of the work involved
in doing a fireworks display is boring manual labor. No small part of which
is nothing more than heavy lifting doing things like setting up the mortar tubes,
as well as loading and unloading trucks. For every minute of fireworks involved
in a display approximatly 3 hours of work goes into setting it up.
As well as doing fireworks displays I also have a strong interest in making fireworks.
Making fireworks is 75% math and chemistry, and 25% art and creativity.
The first question everyone asks when they hear I make fireworks is "Does that mean
you can make a bomb?". I'll answer the question with a question: Since
you know how to use a steak-knife does that mean you can slit people throats?
The answers to both questions are the same. Yes I can, but I can't imagine
why I would. To a pyrotechnician making a bomb to harm people would be as
abnormal an idea as a sculpter using their skill to make stone clubs to beat
people with.
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