If you want to purchase your own fire poi, we highly recommend the excellent products from Flamma Aeterna. Our performers use their K2 Moonblaze Medium, Large and Extra Large poi heads. We have been using their fabulous products for years and can attest to their high quality manufacturing standards, durability and excellent burn time.

If you want to build your own check out this information. Your fire rig consists of a square of kevlar wicking at the end of a chain, attached with swivel hooks to both the handle and the wicking itself. In order to build a rig, you'll need several supplies. Below is a list of the supplies you'll need to acquire and bring to class 2 of the fire dancing series. You can obtain the dog chain at pet stores and the rest of these parts at Home Depot and most hardware stores:

• Quantity: 2
  Size: 1⁄4" diameter x 4" length
  Description: eye bolts with nut --- they should have a little spot on the bottom of the eye of the bolt wherein to slip something on the eye
• Quantity: 2
  Size: 1⁄4"
  Description: split lock washers, (it’s a washer that is split that, when tightened between two bolts, will cause the other two to not come undone)
• Quantity: 2
  Size: 1⁄4"
  Description: nuts
• Quantity: 4
  Size: 1.5" diameter by 1⁄4"
  Description: washers (zinc)
• Quantity: 4
  Size: 1/8"
  Description: zinc finish rings – get them in the packs of three they come in because they work best because they fit through the holes of the part I have. Lehigh is the preferred manufacturer.
• Quantity: 2
  Size: 18"
  Description: lightweight dog chain available at local pet stores
• Quantity: 2
  Size: 1" (or greater) diameter
  Description: split rings (key rings)
• Quantity: 2
  Size:3/4" (or greater) diameter
  Description: split rings (key rings)

Before making these purchases, you may also be interested in reading up on transporting your gear.

The total cost to build your rig will run approximately $42 - $45 including tax. The list of parts should be around $12 - $15 and the parts we will be providing (handles, wicking and swivels) will run you $30 ($18 for the wicking, $10 for the handles, $2 for the swivel hooks). Please be prepared to pay the $30 in cash for those parts the day we meet for this class:

Building the rig

Building the rig consists of these steps for both poi:

• folding the wicking in a cross weave
• screwing the bolt (with a washer on it) into the weave
• attaching the second washer
• putting on the nut
• tightening the nut as far as possible
• putting on the split washer and second nut
• cutting the bolt to size
• filing the edges of the cut bolt
• attaching the quick links, swivels, sized chain and handles

The details of this are discussed during the class itself.