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"i was at wal-mart the other day and saw a great deal on thick, heavy, `100% cotton` black denim.bought a couple of yards to make wicks fromdid a burn test when i got home, and the surfa..."
"I was thinking of making a set of tailed poi but wasnt sure what kind of tails to make. I usually dont like most of the tailed poi sets I see so I wanted to make something unique that ..."
"Hi,Was wondering if anyone knew the size of the Square Headed screws which attach the two halves together. If this is know does anyone know where to get a tool from to undo them?The cha..."
"I've started to incorperate numerous and frequent throws in my fire spinning routine, and finger loops are becoming obsolete. I have my fingers in them at the start of my spin, and sli..."
"Hello I was wondering how can i fix flags for swinging...I need details.I want to make pois too,the ones that seem like flags without sticks.Anyone to help me please???:) "
"why aren't there more colors for the 6" glowsticks? I've seen orange ones and yellow ones. and what happened to the green ones? if you ran out why don't you restock?and why don't you st..."
"these look so freakin neat.just have one question. how well do they spin? i know this is probably for the glowstick on shoelace crowd, but i like my poi to have a little weight to them ..."
"has anyone made that tipe of poi or hve any glue how i can make me some Firesocks "
"hey Malcolm, why don't you sell non-fire begginer staff (like UV glow staff?) "
"I've been searching for a good place to spin, fire or glow, and coming up empty handed. I tried in the courtyard of my apartment complex, but there's to much light for effect, and I ahv..."
"HelloI'm 13 yrs old and am performing in my schools upcoming talent show, I plan on doing flaming poi, flaming devilsticks, and flaming diabolo. The school is behind me all the way on t..."
"Firstly, I'll be posting this on more than one thread and last time I did this one person got a bit annoyed.However, it's a free resource page which will benefit many, and, to just post..."
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"I just found a beautiful glowstaff at &lbr;url&rbr; http://www.neonhusky.com/Products/K-SL2.html &lbr;/url&rbr; but the 1 inch diameter is too much for my GF's fingers. She's really goo..."
"I was playin around with flags with my gf this weekend and was looking at the way flags moved thru the air and whatnot while spinnin them and couldnt help but think how cool they would ..."
"Hey all,I'm going to get the monkey fist and LED heads soon, and want your advice on which set I should get with the chains, and which I should get with just the heads. The monkey fist..."
" Renegade Juggling has massive 4-inch monkeyfist heads they call `blaze balls`. They're $70/pair, so they're $20 more than HOP's 2.5" monkeyfists, but I was wondering if anyone had used..."
"I've been trying to make a long (6 feet) staff split into 3 sections that I can take apart to fit in my rucksack when I'm going camping, but I'm not having much luck.So far I've tried c..."
" *cough* who here thinks these would hold? i know they're light tube core heads, but are those namebadge clips holding them to the chains? "
"Has anybody here tried the ultimate performance poi from the online shop? I'm pretty sure those are the set I want, especially the pink and white ones- pretty:)And I bet they would look..."
"Well, CirRuS and I finally got them completed. The pics are in my gallery.. here I can't actually post them in the topic. Sadly. The image tags are broken.. bah. The 1st is in the midd..."
"Hello! Ive done a search and cant really find what im looking for so i decided to ask! Can anyone tell me how to fold cathedrals? how much kevlar (length and width) is best to use for a..."
"I just bought some kevlar rope for these fire ropes im making and I have evvverything except for one thing to make them. I am missing a 1" diameter (inner diameter) pipe to secure the c..."
"i was out looking everywhere for ballchain. nobody had any.my cable poi are pretty darned raggid by now, and they leave cuts on me when i do wraps, so i decided to go with something new..."
"So, I used lamp oil for the first time today.and for the first time, I set myself on fire.Is this normal for lamp oil to stick like that or do I need to wear different clothing?I typica..."
"Hi everyone,I spin grade OOO and OOOO steel wool balls encased in chicken wire cages (i have pics on my web page poispinner.com if you don't know what these are). It gives a brilliant ..."
"Ok, well I was making myself a set of doubles but thought I had more wick than I did (I thought I had 6 foot of wick - I forgot I used that on my single....anyway)Working with what I've..."
"Hi Everyone,I've made my own set of poi and though nice, and sorta ok for practice, they are not quite show quality nor that safe. I'm on the search for a really nice set of tailed poi..."
"k while chilling in an abandoned cabin up north lol i was chilling with a friend and we were kidna bored.. we were looking aroudn and found a long peice of string bout 3.5m long so i ti..."
"hey im thinking about getting a new set of fire poi soon and was lookin in the shop and i was just wondering what u would recomend?iv got a second hand home made set right now and they ..."
"hey y'all, i was just looking at the staff lessons and i got really interested. i was wondering if anyone knew the best way to obtain a staff. is it easy to make a staff? and how big sh..."
"Hi everybody, I'm new here and just had a quick question. I'm planning on getting a set of fire poi very soon but I can’t decide between the cathedral or monkeyfist....I have read man..."
"on the homeofpoi shopping cart, it says this would be `ready for attachment of glow sticks, practice balls, beaming balls or tube core fire heads`. the distinction of `tube core fire he..."
"say i wanted a cubic cathedral, out of 2.5" kevlar...how many feet would i need &lbr;per head&rbr;?thanks..::me "
"Hi everyone This is my fist post on this board, but i'm reading this board from a long time i try to find some info about this in archive, but without result firstly i want to sory for..."
"I am most definately a sock-poi kinda gal and always find that i don't really get along with other peoples fire toys, so i want to make some poi that are just like sock poi to spin but ..."
Posted: by Singed Piper (formerly Mark1)
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"sooo... i had some time a while ago, so i built a lightsaber out of pvc, polycarb, EL wire, cdr cases, packing peanuts, super glue, a switch, and my jedi powers (LOL) anyway, it looke..."
" I've just been browsing through the shop and I noticed the giant monkeyfist poi are no longer for sale I was planning to buy some of them when I get to New Zealand in February. Oh well..."
"has anyone tought of making this (malcolm maybe?) I really want to see ones... "
"why are they called cathedral wicks?we've always called them consatina wicks, probably because they are... concertina shaped and then when finding the slightly larger world of poi, we d..."
"i have been spinning fire for about 4 months now and i never really heard of a good way to store my heads when i wasn't using them. what i have been doing is just disconnecting them an..."
"Well, the experiment was attempted. Have a look at Boardritz playing with the things in the picture gallery.Simply wire together two metal hanging baskets, to form a sphere about the s..."
"Hey all I've had a pair of the white flags from HoP for a while now but they're looking a bit tired and erm, black in places.Has anyone found a way to clean them? I was going to chuck t..."
"i was browsing through the poi head catelog here on HOP....and i saw like 5 or 6 types of poi heads.there are shrort bootleg ones, 2.5 inch, 4 inch, then cathedral, and round ones....i ..."
"What up, I just saw really bright laser pointers for €2 each, so of course I bought 20 of them. I now have 20 really bright lasers and absolutley no idea what to do with them.Really b..."
"Ok, you ask for these so here they are. Hope they help in some way. Use them as you will, if you don't then never mind, but I was requested to write these down and if one person uses th..."
"I've been thinking about buying a pair of them latly, and I've been wondering a few things about them, like:Can you do wraps with them whthout too much dificulty?Are throws really possi..."
"These little lights are incredibly fun to swing around, but they've got those crystals on the end that are always flying off, breaking, or doing other random badness.Has anyone discover..."
"Hi guys! I'd like to know if there are good poi shops in UK. Especially in southern England? How about in London, some easy to find? "
"I spent 2 months of my summer working in Greece where i picked up my first poi. 20 mins after i finally bought some i met a guy who told me they were crap ones. He said bicycle chains a..."
"Just took a spin through the shop and noticed there's a little bit of remodeling going on!! One particular item of note is the Rainbow Hacky Sack! Really neat. Someone posted a few mont..."
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