Your own FIREWORK  SHOW

This page was written as a guide for putting on your own firework display with consumer fireworks.  Although without a license you can't buy professional display fireworks, consumer fireworks can be used to create a show almost as good as professional ones.  Consumer fireworks have been increasing in size, quality, variety, and safety over the years, making them just as spectacular as professional fireworks.  They can provide a fantastic crowd pleasing display, all for a reasonable price and high level of safety.  Over the last few years of putting on such shows on the 4th of July I've learned lot of  information and tips, which I've listed below.  This goals of this section are to teach you how to:

safely set up and use consumer fireworks 
effectively use fireworks to make a fantastic, professional-looking display
avoid any problems that you may encounter during the course of your show

Hopefully you'll find it useful for planning a consumer firework display of your own.  I am providing this information free of charge, because I feel that it has the potential to, and should, benefit all fireworks enthusiasts.  After all, I would have loved to have information like this when I was first starting out with consumer fireworks years ago and didn't know anything about putting on a display.

Because of the amount of information contained here, it has been broken down into several different pages:

Location: choosing a safe location for your display 

Planning: how to effectively plan your display

Setup: what type of equipment you will need for your display, how to safely prepare, lay out, and set up each type of firework

Ignition: how to ignite your show safely and effectively (coming soon).

Clean Up: safely clearing all firework debris and equipment from the firing area (coming soon).

Additional Tips

Methods of Ignition

Basic Show tips (coming soon).

Ignition & Fusing

Advanced Display - Electrical Ignition

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