How to dance and sparkle through life

Do you know this feeling: it's night, you're walking outside and suddenly you really, really want to make a little dance, just right there on the streets?

Well I do have that feeling sometimes and now that I found the ultimate outdoor dancingfloor I thought I could use a pair of proper dancingshoe's...
That's why I made these sparkling outdoor dancing shoe's. The passion becomes really visible!

Now every street, square or pavement can be your ballroom and ofcourse it will be a new way of watching spectacular footwork..!

Step 1: What you need

This is what you need:

- A pair of dancing shoe's
- Fire-rocks (the ones they put in a lighter, you can buy a box at the tobacco shop) the amount of rocks you need depends on the size of your heels.
- Tweezers
- Tape
- Sandpaper
- Quick epoxy glue (this is the best glue for this job I found untill now, but I am still looking for better options)

Comments

[t217265]

How possible is it for these to start fires? Dancing at the gas station, or next to that overgrown urban lot?

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[omnibot]

I think they're aren't actual flint rocks though but probably magnesium or some alloy of that. This is a cool idea.

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[omnibot]

Yes, but that is magnesium burning not scraping against steel.

[Romanader]

Mischmetal (from German: Mischmetall - "mixed metal") is an alloy of rare earth elements. A typical composition includes approximately 50% cerium and 25% lanthanum, with small amounts of neodymium and praseodymium. Its most common use is in the "flint" ignition device of many lighters and torches. It is blended with iron oxide and magnesium oxide to form a harder material known as ferrocerium. It'd be too soft to act as a good flint otherwise.

Carl Auer Freiherr von Welsback developed it back in the late 1800s. His company is still in business to this day making everyone's lighters work.

[omnibot]

Nice, were did you dig that up?

[Romanader]

Pulled it together from Google, Wikipedia and one of the "Flint" Manufacturing websites. Just a little research.

[isisboot]

Yes, also sold in bigger pieces under the name 'firesteel' in campingstores, etc.

[killerjackalope]

I've tried similar things, it's pretty hard to make the shoes work well, I'm thinking of making a little mechanism so it works more like a lighter when you land your feet...