Dye Tutorial

[gwillim]

I just wrote out a fairly thorough tutorial on how to dye your own discs using the methods I use.

Gwillim's How-To (dye a disc) (http://blog.ryangwillim.com/?p=309)

Feel free to comment on that page if you have any questions. Disc dying is really fun and I suggest everyone give it a try!!

[mmyersdisc]

nice job on the disc! im gonna end up trying to die a disc for my buddies..one a halo disc and one a chicago bears disc...gotta find a stencil first!

[solomon.trenton]

check out vettecrazy's article
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2089

[_.-Dut-._]

nice link

[willstradamus]

wow thats a good tutorial and a sexy disc

[vettekrazy]

Nice post, I still struggle with the rainbow stamps. How do you take those off without leaving a ghost?

[gwillim]

I've never had a problem with champion plastic. However, with white Star plastic I'm kind of hit and miss and I don't do anything differently.

I dye about 90% of the time with champion plastic though, so I've not tried too many things to fix the white/star plastic with the rainbow stamp.

[jace]

great link - I'm looking forward to giving this a go in the near future. pretty cool work!

[livexfaith]

Thanks for the tutorial...i did my first disc last night...it actually turned out pretty good.

How would you go about using multiple colors?

[livexfaith]

also....what proportions do you use when mixing powedered RIT with water...can you reuse the dye? store it?

[MrSnowboard15]

awesome tutorial!

answered just about every question i had.

all of the pain staking steps in the beginning are gonna be easy for me cause i got me a vinyl cutter.

im going out to get some acetone and rit today.

really exited.:D

[discgolfcrazy]

i just tried to dye with champion plastic and cant get it to dye to the disc, any suggestions?

[Dan Howard]

Most likely got some of the newly transitioned dye, this thread (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38339) has some info. You have to open the box and inspect the paper packaging containing the dye, if there is an ND after the color and # it is the new dye, don't buy, don't bother using it, it will not work on discs.

Package on the left is bad, right is good.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i443/dhoward66071/discs%20and%20designs/RITsDSC_8306.jpg

Great tutorial Gwillim, one of the first I read and I got a lot out of it.