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let the sparks fly?

Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 10:14 pm
Jim C8 posts in thread

A poser to all you teckies out there. Does anybody have an answer to how we can create sparks to occur during a sword fighting sequence? During a sword fight rehersal for our performance for Peter Pan we did have a couple of sparks fly, the effect was "electric" and we would like to reproduce this on cue each show. There must be some elements that could be coated to one sword that would create sparks when struck by another.

Jaguar

Josh, forgive me for saying

Sat, 18 Oct 2008, 09:27 am
Josh, forgive me for saying so but that is a dangerous practice. Always supposing you could get ribbon magnesium, which is inflammable by the way as well as being poisonous, it could cause serious injury. Please don't attempt this. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

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