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Now this isn't something I'd normally use but I think it'd work quite nicly in a routine I'm putting together.

I've been looking around and have found some that take a cap but I don't really want a noisy one, I want it to be quiet. I've come across some electric ones but what are these like and are they any good?

All the ones I've seen say 'send a fireball 15 feet across the stage' but I don't really want anything that big, how easy is it to make a small flash, about 1 or 2 feet max with one of these?

Thanks all

Really should not be hard to create the small flash. It depends on how tight you pack the flash cottom or flash paper. It just takes some experimenting. Do you actually want a wand. You can get an electronic flash gun http://www.perfectmagic.com/p-1597-flas ... ronic.aspx
that will fit in the palm of your hand, battery operated easy to use and the ignitor is a glow plug so there is no noise.

I am sure there are also wands that don't require a cap but can't think of one off the top of my head. I know a fellow locally(Pennsylvania) who builds this kind of stuff I can ask him.

Le Maitre do a double firing one - see http://www.sound-light-company.co.uk/pr ... maitre.htm, scroll down to
MG11 Electric flash wand £ 42.00
MG12 Double electric flash wand £ 49.00
and a single firing one is offered at http://www.world-of-magic.co.uk/magic.asp?id=333 for £27.55.

my Innuendo-o-meter has just gone off the scale!

Thanks boys, I was looking at that one on world of magic. I'll have to play around to see if I can get a little poof rather than a big flash (there you go Lawrence, another innuendo for you)

Don't toy with me, woman!