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Howdy all.
When I was in Calcutta I found a fairly well known magic dealer's shop - Sam Dalal. Any magic dealers might recognise the name - he makes many of the bigger stage effects, wooden cut-outs, brass boxes, all that sort of thing - real "rabbit out of a dusty hat" stuff. It was pretty cool though; especially as the stuff everyone uses (swami's, flash products) were dirt cheap.

Well, I'm off to Thailand in about a month and wondered if anyone knows of any similar shops, esp. in Bangkok? I know everything's so cheap out there, I'd love to fill my suitcase with flash paper and never have to pay £6 for 10 sheets again! Anyone have any info...?!

Just a breif point here... NEVER get more flash paper than you will use. It becomes very volatile and can explode on it's own if kept for too long.

Several magicians have lost fingers because of incorrect storage both in terms of where they store it and for how long...

Buy everything else aas cheap as you wnat. Just don't get more flashpaper than you'll use in a year...

Or say, 9 months. To err on the side of caution

Who say's you have to pay £6 for paper

Fair enough Stephen! But (if I bought 1 pad) your paper is still 20p per sheet... that's great value in this country, don't get me wrong, but you'll never be able to compete with Asiatic prices! I'd love to actually practice some tricks using flash paper, but before you know it you've got through £3 in 2 minutes

But thanks for the warning Ecko - I hadn't realised that actually. Aren't you supposed to store it damp or something? Would that not be safe for longer periods?

keep it wet if storing a lot may help