The Dye A Day Thread!

[TxDiscGolfBoy]

super cool man!!! very nice.

When I remove all the "stick icky" to reveal the finish product -- well before I reveal the finish product -- I run the water in the kitchen sink as hot as I can get it and just let the water run over the top of the disc AND vinyl before I peel the vinyl back. It really loosens up the adhesive on the vinyl PLUS+++ it really helps remove any excess dye that may still be on the disc.

:thmbup::thmbup::thmbup:

 

[Apothecary]

^^bad advice alert

 

[Jabanger]

super cool man!!! very nice.

When I remove all the "stick icky" to reveal the finish product -- well before I reveal the finish product -- I run the water in the kitchen sink as hot as I can get it and just let the water run over the top of the disc AND vinyl before I peel the vinyl back. It really loosens up the adhesive on the vinyl PLUS+++ it really helps remove any excess dye that may still be on the disc.

:thmbup::thmbup::thmbup:

Never use hot water because it can blur the image right after coming out of the dip. Always use cold water and a lot of people will place the disc in the freezer afterwards to help set the image and possibly slow down the blurring process.

 

[Apothecary]

that...AND youll stain your sink...AND youll have adhesive residue bonded to the disc.

 

[Chrisgeoguy]

Go Eagles, this is Georgia Southern Dye that Bennett made for me! That logo is perfect for a disc!

 

[Chrisgeoguy]

This was a Christmas present for a buddy at work. Again this is another Bennett dye! Sweet job.


IMGP4351 by CJ's Camera, on Flickr

 

[NothinButChing]

lovin the dyes

 

[BennettUA]

Glad you like them Chris! The last one should arrive today!

 

[bhuff]

Go Eagles, this is Georgia Southern Dye that Bennett made for me! That logo is perfect for a disc!

boo GA So. go UGA

 

[Jabanger]

Nice work as always Bennett!

 

[MOON]

Nice use of space.

 

[thatdirtykid]

love the backdrop in those images

 

[LoPan12]

Worked on this last night...was a real pain though...the vinyl bled in from one or two points around the edge, and it worked its way around the rim. Once water hits that adhesive, it's useless, and since I only had it in the black for a few minutes before it happened, i had to go and re-cut and re-mask for the lines. And it happened again, but I got dark enough to almost be black.
So for the purple dip, i cut off everything that went past the rim and just let it have a ring of purple around the rim's edge, which mostly let the vinyl do its job properly...something about this vinyl doesn't like being folded around the rim...
Then remasked for the yellow, so as not to get a purple-yellow brown color.

In the end, the lines look like deep dark purple, and a few of the clear or yellow panes have some bleed, and it took for freaking ever. But it mostly work out well. It's sweet looking in the sun. Just wish i could have gotten the purple deeper, but the re-mask pulled some of the color off, despite a good cold bath after the purple dip.
Well, a few more lessons learned. Hope the guy appreciates the effort I went through.

This third picture is how I wanted it to look in real life. Its with my camera's saturation setting increased. Anyone got tips on how to achieve that kind of bright vibrant yellow? I was using lemon yellow dye, with about 1.7 liters of water to 1.5 packs of powdered Rit (the other .5 went into a kelly green mix to lighten it up)

 

[agent_peebody]

yellow is pretty hard to make *pop* :\

 

[LoPan12]

yellow is pretty hard to make *pop* :\

Yeah...I figured that when I left the sucker in the yellow bath for...ohhhh, the entire second half of The Expendables... Great flick BTW. The final action sequence is pretty epic. Like...explosive shotgun round - 6 guys killing the shizznit out of an army epic.

 

[lokirising]

Worked on this last night...was a real pain though...the vinyl bled in from one or two points around the edge, and it worked its way around the rim. Once water hits that adhesive, it's useless, and since I only had it in the black for a few minutes before it happened, i had to go and re-cut and re-mask for the lines. And it happened again, but I got dark enough to almost be black.
So for the purple dip, i cut off everything that went past the rim and just let it have a ring of purple around the rim's edge, which mostly let the vinyl do its job properly...something about this vinyl doesn't like being folded around the rim...
Then remasked for the yellow, so as not to get a purple-yellow brown color.

In the end, the lines look like deep dark purple, and a few of the clear or yellow panes have some bleed, and it took for freaking ever. But it mostly work out well. It's sweet looking in the sun. Just wish i could have gotten the purple deeper, but the re-mask pulled some of the color off, despite a good cold bath after the purple dip.
Well, a few more lessons learned. Hope the guy appreciates the effort I went through.

This third picture is how I wanted it to look in real life. Its with my camera's saturation setting increased. Anyone got tips on how to achieve that kind of bright vibrant yellow? I was using lemon yellow dye, with about 1.7 liters of water to 1.5 packs of powdered Rit (the other .5 went into a kelly green mix to lighten it up)

Reminds me of stained glass. :hfive:

 

[LoPan12]

Reminds me of stained glass. :hfive:

That was the idea!

 

[mentally_understable]

Reminds me of stained glass. :hfive:

I agree, LoPan, I'm sorry but if we ever get to meet and you have that disc, I might have to throw a rock at it!

But overall, I think it looks pretty damn good!

 

[LoPan12]

I agree, LoPan, I'm sorry but if we ever get to meet and you have that disc, I might have to throw a rock at it!

But overall, I think it looks pretty damn good!

LOL, thanks! But to track it down, I think you'll have to go to Amsterdam (Ohh Noes! ) I did the dye for kerplunk, and He's headed out there in a few weeks to do research for some genetics stuff. And no, not that kind of genetics...i think... :thmbup:

 

[mentally_understable]

Damn, anywhere but Amsterdam!! Kerplunk, I'm throwin' a rock at your disc!!