Rit dye a Spydie to look camo
Rit dye a Spydie to look camo
Any of you Rit dye guys ever tried dieing a white Spyderco knife to look like classic woodland camo? Could it be done?
Im assuming if you used the greens and browns and blacks and sort of swirled the dye, it could work, but you would have your work cut out for you.
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You would have to do as many separate dye baths as you wanted colors. That would require masking off areas already dyed and to be dyed every time you dye another color. I'm not sure you could effectively do this at all with the textured FRN.
Lacrosse players use hot glue to mask off areas when they dye their sticks but that's a larger, smooth surface. In theory, I guess you could use blobs of hot glue to mask areas off, but in real life doing an E4 or D4 scale would be a PITA and it's hard to envision it working very well. But, hey, give it a try and show us the pix! :D
Lacrosse players use hot glue to mask off areas when they dye their sticks but that's a larger, smooth surface. In theory, I guess you could use blobs of hot glue to mask areas off, but in real life doing an E4 or D4 scale would be a PITA and it's hard to envision it working very well. But, hey, give it a try and show us the pix! :D
Unfortunately, you'd get mud brown or black. You need to ^^^ mask the material if you're going to use dye(s).FIMS wrote:Im assuming if you used the greens and browns and blacks and sort of swirled the dye, it could work, but you would have your work cut out for you.
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JNewell has it right. If you try and you don't like how it turns out, you could just dye the whole thing black.
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i think candle wax would be easier than the hot glue gun. :confused:
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I was just going to give the lacrosse hot clue didbit.JNewell wrote:You would have to do as many separate dye baths as you wanted colors. That would require masking off areas already dyed and to be dyed every time you dye another color. I'm not sure you could effectively do this at all with the textured FRN.
Lacrosse players use hot glue to mask off areas when they dye their sticks but that's a larger, smooth surface. In theory, I guess you could use blobs of hot glue to mask areas off, but in real life doing an E4 or D4 scale would be a PITA and it's hard to envision it working very well. But, hey, give it a try and show us the pix! :D
Unfortunately, you'd get mud brown or black. You need to ^^^ mask the material if you're going to use dye(s).
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If it takes so fast to the FRN, could you not airbrush it?
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You'd have to do both the already-dyed areas and the to-be-dyed later areas. To illustrate, if you want three colors:RJNC wrote:So with the hot glue, I'd have to glue over the parts already dyed, when I put a new color on. So I'd really have to make sure my colors are fully dried on before applying the next color.
1. Mask area 2 and area 3, dye area 1
2. Mask area 1 and area 3, dye area 2
3. Mask area 1 and area 2, dye area 3
I'm not sure at what temperature candle wax melts but I would think it would melt right off in the hot water.BuffaloBill wrote:candle wax would probably work better, but more of a pain to clean out.
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I dont think the "painting" would work... Isnt the whole thing about the rit dye is the heat? That in a way "cooks" the color on...
I like the hot glue idea.
I like the hot glue idea.
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