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LarrySILVER Member
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Posted:
anyone else do anything with playing cards?
anyone know any decent way of setting them on fire? i keep finding that if i light them with deoderant then they just go out as soon as i do a thing with them. and the cards+ paraffin experiments were a massive let down

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JauntyJamesSILVER Member
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Posted:
I think that paper burns. I might be wrong, though, let me get back to you on that.

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LarrySILVER Member
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Location: Hull!, United Kingdom


Posted:
helpful wink
you'd be suprised how much a playing card DOESN'T burn

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pineapple peteSILVER Member
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Location: melbourne, Australia


Posted:
hey larry.

assuming your gonna be doing flourishes / torched and restored type stuff, you'll want to be using a fuel that will burn by itself, without a wick. problems with these types of fuels is that they burn hotter than kero / parafin. zippo will work, and ive been told a 50 - 50 mix of kero and shellite. im not sure what shellite is in other countrys, but its labelled 'petroleum spirits'. as per usual, do not even think of using petrol.

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LurchBRONZE Member
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Location: Oregon, USA


Posted:
They do make 'fire paste' as a survivalist fire starter... just flammable goo... although I wouldn't go flinging it around, that would be bad.. I use vaseline and cotton balls as well when I'm camping, but I don't have any vaseline laying around right now to test flammablitiy on its own.. Again, you don't want to be flinging goo around.. and DEFINATLY wash your hands after applying before burning..



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LarrySILVER Member
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383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom


Posted:
excellent ideas, dudes, cheers.
guess i need the sides of the cards to be on fire, if i put something on top of the deck and light it it makes it quite limited in what i can do, any form of cut puts it out.
i'll sort something, a few experiments with different fuels i think

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{anthrax}BRONZE Member
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209 posts
Location: England


Posted:
Could you melt some candle wax onto the edges and add a length of string to the edges before the wax dries?

Might be a bit fiddly

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LarrySILVER Member
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383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom


Posted:
would be very fiddly, but that might make an excellent fire fan. although you couldn't do anything else with it, i think that could look really good, trying that out tonight.

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Gasuyinamember
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You should some put some pictures up if you get anything that works, cos i can't even visualise what you mean
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AnonymousPLATINUM Member


Posted:
Gambit from X-Men. devil



Good cards (like bike's air cushion finish) are coated in a varnish to stop them sticking (and for flourishes, etc). I presume it's the varnish that doesnt burn?

artindorilmember
117 posts

Posted:
So something acidic might eat into the varnish and allow just the paper to catch light. Try leaving it for a while in some coke, or other brand of fizzy soft drink.

Gasuyinamember
30 posts
Location: Currently nr Salisbury, but occasionally Bath, or ...


Posted:
but then surely you'd have no card left biggrin
nail varnish remover would take off your varnish, but is far too flammable when wet, so you'd have to be really careful to check it's try, and would take a lot of work for each set.
Be about the same price as coke, cos you'd need less of it. Also comes in smaller, more transportable bottles.

very handy.

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TheBovrilMonkeySILVER Member
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2,629 posts
Location: High Wycombe, England


Posted:
Written by: Gasuyina


but is far too flammable when wet




Given the title of this thread, that may well not be a problem tongue

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LarrySILVER Member
Electro Ponce!
383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom


Posted:
not fussed about the cards being usable afterwards!
and yeah, USplaying card co. cards just-don't-burn!
i might try taking the finish off them, good ideas!

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Gasuyinamember
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Posted:
well there's flammable... and then there's explosive.

a subtle, but important distinction, i think you'll agree.

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LarrySILVER Member
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383 posts
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Posted:
well if i could get my hands on the right acids and nitrate the cards then they could be more on the explosive side!
important distinction yes, explosive cards, he he he. i could take up staff and dress like gambit!

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{anthrax}BRONZE Member
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Location: England


Posted:
sorry, just have to say this... but gambit is SO cool.

There its out of my system now tongue

Carry on with the discussion lol

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pineapple peteSILVER Member
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia


Posted:
hmm, in my opinion, it'd be best to go for the US playing card company cards, and steer away from the plastic coated kind. plastic + fire aint too good. perhaps roughening the cards with sand paper prior to adding a fuel of some sort?

cheers, pete biggrin

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LarrySILVER Member
Electro Ponce!
383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom


Posted:
i wouldn't go near a card that isn't a US playing card co card!
and you get some powder for roughing, not paper, you savage! wink
i made a nice pic of me holding a fire card fan! now i just need to know how to post it (clearly i don't spend enough time on here)

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SpringHeelnewbie
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Posted:
Re. what to do with the cards once they're on fire, check out the book "Cards as Weapons" by magician Ricky Jay. It's all about how to do various tricks with throwing cards - boomerangs, throwing multiple cards, etc. The book is quite rare (and expensive) but you can probably find a copy through library interloan.

Twisthem488member
187 posts
Location: USA


Posted:
ask the guys at superhandz.com . Check out the elemental manipulations vids. Some pretty cool stuff biggrin (im giddy, my dad is ordering the book of cool bookofcool.com and im getting into pen spinning )

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LarrySILVER Member
Electro Ponce!
383 posts
Location: Hull!, United Kingdom


Posted:
i have cards as weapons, it's alright. i have a DVD on card throwing by some random dude thats a lot better though.
and yeah, pretty much don't do anything once on fire, wave them about a bit, then put them out in some way, i'll have to see about throwing some about out of the fan

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Gasuyinamember
30 posts
Location: Currently nr Salisbury, but occasionally Bath, or ...


Posted:
Don't you need to throw them quite hard? you may find that puts them out, or the flames make them wonky.

hee hee wonky fire cards. hee hee wonky. (i need to eat less sugar)

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MynciBRONZE Member
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8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
I know a way but I'm not actually allowed to tell you sorry, I can tell you it's not the fuel but it is the type of card

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


Chris_Lu1DIAMOND Member
Flow Artist
67 posts
Location: USA


Posted:
De'vo and Jerry have both done quite a bit of work with Fire. An Elemental promotional video can be found at:


I know there is a better one out there, but I can't find it.


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