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I came to the conclusion that limiting my cues was the best way to help me stick to a budget and keep setup reasonable. With only about 200 cues to work with it's rather easy to stick to a reasonable...

A part of the reason it looks like I'm going to take a pass this year is because much of my family is not traveling to where I shoot. My niece is due the week of the 4th so that whole gang is staying...

You know your situation better then anyone. It will be interesting to see what happens with my plan. It could backfire too. I do have a backup plan if it does.

Part of the problem is that fireworks are more of art form that requires craftsmanship then simply a feat of engineering. Even new sources of cheap labor doesn't get around this. Some of these...

Being mostly a one man crew I hit that point after my second e-fired show when I clearly bit off more then I could chew. I learned the biggest budget and brightest ideas are worthless without the...

General consensus is yes, buy as early as possible. No one knows what the future holds. Product coming in now is subject to the tariff. Many have stopped importing product completely. The longer this...

I wanted to bring this up a long time ago but didn't want to inject politics. I finally broke down and brought it up once tariffs were all but certain. At this point I have other uncertainties...

This is where I'm at. What fireworks industry are these tariffs trying to protect or do we expect to return to the U.S.? What is the goal here? That's what I'm waiting to find out.

Not something I'm really all that interested in unless I would ever join a club and start going to shoots. 1.4 just isn't practical in my situation. But that does raise a good point. I believe I am...

Thanks for the feedback. The 10% is significant enough. But with the price of the product going up that means I need to pay more in tax too. Here in PA that's a total of 18% levied on product costing...

Tariffs on Chinese goods have been on my mind but not a discussion I wanted to bring here until it looked closer to reality. Since it was announced that a 10% across the board tariffs are going to be...

It depends.If I do my show at the alternate site I'm likely going to largely duplicate last years show and make it easy on myself. I have al lot of the product I used left over from last yeas show....

The problem is my family and myself live 5+ hrs away. There's a lot of time and logistics needed in making a trip there. Unfortunately the decision has been made, they're not making the trip this...

Good show! Thanks for sharing.

Sounds fun!

I found out over the holidays my niece is pregnant and due the 1st week of July. That means most, if not all, of those that travel to the lake I shoot at each year will not be making...

Do we know if that is a cake?

Awesome! Congrats to you and your team.

I used pulse pounder in my show last year. It was pretty lackluster. I don't see even a harder hitting version comparing to the M25's I used this year.

I've been looking into using them ever since then too. The main reason I haven't is because of all the plastic and they seem a little unpredictable for my space.

Funny...I told my wife to use the landscape mode this year. Yes it certainly makes the fireworks look smaller then they are but I found it much better overall. A lot has to do with positioning and...

Great show. Too bad you didn't get the video you wanted but hey....weather could have created worse issues.

At least prices and supply seemed to have stabilized. I received some help with being able to source my product locally. Not only does that save on shipping but 1.4 pro is not subject to the extra...

I love those cakes, if you can't tell by how much I use them. Timing can vary but I've been lucky with getting ones that fire closer to the manufactures video. As I stated before, a lot of my...

Awesome show Ed! So glad mother nature cooperated. But I'm not going to give mother nature too much credit. I think the pace and layering went a long way in ensuring smoke wasn't going to be a major...

Fun show! It became a little dizzying at times and think it could use some lower lows along the way. There were some nice effects and sequences in there but they tended to get lost.....But that's a...