Constructing a 5" canister shell with crossette (split comet) stars. Phil Martinez starts right in by showing you crossette star tools and how to split them into 4 parts. He shows rammed spollettes, gives careful, detailed explanations of assembling the shell, tricks on loading the comets, packing, spiking, how to figure amount of lift, breaking paper, pasting in, etc.

Phil's careful demonstrations pull no punches - it's all here, including a special tool to ensure the split, and a fusing technique that guarantees ignition! From basics for the beginner to improving break patterns for the advanced shellmaker, this is the DVD you want. 90 min.

INDEX:
00:00:00:00 Chapter 1, Opening Titles
00:01:45:03 Chapter 2, Beginning of Seminar
00:02:07:16 Chapter 3, Tooling
00:03:44:02 Chapter 4, Shot Cavity
00:08:28:01 Chapter 5, Rammed Spolette
00:09:52:20 Chapter 6, Spolette Mix
00:18:18:19 Chapter 7, Clove Hitch
00:19:25:00 Chapter 8, Discs
00:20:38:15 Chapter 9, Case Former
00:25:05:03 Chapter 10, Pleating the Kraft Paper 00:28:28:12 Chapter 11, Placing the Comets
00:31:18:13 Chapter 12, Filling in the Spaces Between
the Comets
00:35:19:08 Chapter 13, Burst Charge
00:38:21:29 Chapter 14, Placing the Second Layer
of Comets
00:49:56:09 Chapter 15, Spiking
00:56:53:14 Chapter 16, Pasting the Shell
01:09:09:04 Chapter 17, Top Fusing
01:13:01:20 Chapter 18, Shell Leader
01:13:57:25 Chapter 19, Lift Wrap
01:17:49:19 Chapter 20, Adding the Lift Charge
01:19:59:17 Chapter 21, Other Video Titles
01:21:18:04 Chapter 22, Ends