Pirotecnia Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Hello, Today i remembered the my old times in Portugal. I was a teen and i had the habit of looking for the remais of fireworks after a fireworks show (the day after) in search for something that was not exploded to learn more about how fireworks work. It was very common to find some cake bombettes: some with imperfect shape of "pears", about 1.5 inch, with a chinese fuse, kraft and tissue paper, about 10 stars inside and a bit of granulated BP. The effect of she small shells was a weak explosion with the stars spreading to irregular directions. The colors of the stars i think were green, red and yellow. Have you seen something like this? I attached an image made by me on MS Paint to examplify more or less what i tried to explain above. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparx88 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Yeah that's your run of the mill low quality cheap throw together bottom of the barrel junky stuff. Keep the stars and fuse until you have enough to fill a real shell or make a mine shot out of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 With inserts from a cake or multi break shell the precise geometry is less important than getting all the stars up there cheaply. With a single precision Japanese shell the perfection is ALL so they make the pieces more carefully, but the cost is much greater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloyd Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Sigh... yeah... there's one "very high-profile" maker of professional close-proximity pyrotechnics that still insists on making bombettes that way. With all the GOOD effects they have, their bombettes suck so bad it's amazing they sell any of them at all! Lloyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyegasm Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Is that really true about Japanese shells? That they are really so meticulous? I saw a small fireworks display in Tokyo once and the precision stunned me. I thought it was just a very good pyrotechnician, but one of the locals said that in Japan, they are always that precise. It is a highly respected artisan craft there. Too bad that was my last day there. I really wanted to see more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeee Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 The Japanese basically ingrain the concept into their lives along with many of their religions.These concepts play out in many of their daily activities, when you have a dense population on a smallpiece of land the concepts become survival skills. Provide a better service, better product or both andyou will always stay in business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyegasm Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 I really have a healthy respect and admiration of Japanese discipline and precision. Germany used to be like that too. Now it's all about reaching retarded levels of being cheap with a lot of show and little substance. As bad as we Americans are with a disposable lifestyle Germany has outdone us 5 fold. Nothing here is repaired of maintained. Just built and used up then left to rot or replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirotecnia Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 This is a picture of the bombette type I tried to describe in the first post of this topic, finally I've found a picture, but this one is from rising effects of a Japanese shell, anyway, the ones I'm talking about was for sure not used as rising effects but are really similar:Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Probably made without the paper hemispheres that are often used, just a bag of lots of brown paper. The Japanese don't use the same methods as the Chinese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirotecnia Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 Probably made without the paper hemispheres that are often used, just a bag of lots of brown paper. The Japanese don't use the same methods as the Chinese. Yes, thats true, some layers of kraft paper, a layer of tissue paper, blackpowder granules and stars. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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