Noobie Dye Question Thread

[josiahm]

Has anyone tried to Dye Discraft X plastic? I just bought my wisfe a 156g White Buzzz I was thinking of trying to throw some dye at it.

 

[Reniger]

Has anyone tried to Dye Discraft X plastic? I just bought my wisfe a 156g White Buzzz I was thinking of trying to throw some dye at it.

It might take a faded dye, but not much more than that. Sorry, bud.

It'd better than Discraft Pro-D, but still not a very dye friendly blend. It will take a bit but requires more time and a heavier dye->delusion blend or acetone. Still, not going to take a ton...

 

[josiahm]

It might take a faded dye, but not much more than that. Sorry, bud.

It'd better than Discraft Pro-D, but still not a very dye friendly blend. It will take a bit but requires more time and a heavier dye->delusion blend or acetone. Still, not going to take a ton...

Ya that's kind of what I though. Thanks for the reply.

 

[goeast542]

so I just did my first dye using idye poly I mixed a small amount of the powder with straight acetone to "paint" the color on my disc. I also used contact paper for my stencil. Then using a foam brush, brushed on the color. The acetone ate some of the sticky stuff on the contact paper and bled color kinda badly.
What can I do to not get any bleed through? Should I use vinyl sign material? Or is there a mixture ratio that I could use?
The acetone/dye mixture gave me the super bright color I was looking for!

 

[Reniger]

so I just did my first dye using idye poly I mixed a small amount of the powder with straight acetone to "paint" the color on my disc. I also used contact paper for my stencil. Then using a foam brush, brushed on the color. The acetone ate some of the sticky stuff on the contact paper and bled color kinda badly.
What can I do to not get any bleed through? Should I use vinyl sign material? Or is there a mixture ratio that I could use?
The acetone/dye mixture gave me the super bright color I was looking for!

Vinyl will always be your best bet. Contact paper is unreliable at best. A lot of people prefer Oracal 631 or Oracal 651. However, most hobby/craft stores sell Cricut that is fairly cheap for a starter roll to try out and readily available.

Cheers and have fun!

 

[goeast542]

Thanks so much. I will try that. Is there a different mixture I should try? Or will vinyl hold up to the acetone?

 

[Reniger]

Vinyl will hold up to acetone just fine. Even pure acetone/dye mix with no water diluting it.

 

[goeast542]

Thanks so much for your help. Went and picked up circuit vinyl. Also got some printable vinyl. Gonna try that out as well!
Thanks again Reniger!!!

 

[Reniger]

Just so you know, you can manually feed the cheap-o white Cricut vinyl into a laserjet printer and it makes hand cutting a hell of a lot easier. No need for special "printable" vinyl.

 

[goeast542]

Good to know. I will try that.
Again thanks so much for your help!!!

 

[Alexplz]

Has anyone tried fabric markers? I was in Joanne's the other day looking at these and figured they must be dye based. A quick google search indicates that there are some out there that are approved for use on polyester.

I would much rather doodle on a disc freehand than fuss with a stencil and dye.

 

[Noill]

If it works, what a cool idea! Can't you do that with sharpies though?

 

[Alexplz]

If it works, what a cool idea! Can't you do that with sharpies though?

The trick is, Sharpies and the like are ink-based, so they wear off pretty quickly. I hypothesize that polyester-specific fabric markers are dye based and would therefore not wear off.

Essentially what I'm looking for is iDye Poly in marker form. Might have to just give it a try.

I also understand that there are some graffiti type markers than can be refilled with ink - I wonder if these would work as well with dye...?

 

[Alexplz]

Semi update on the marker dye front - I did some digging in a thread on here and it seems someone else tried filling the empty craft markers with dye and it didn't work.

There's a brand of worm dye manufacturer called Spike It that makes a dye marker, apparently they work fine. A google search found only a few colors available in an unscented option, no black, which was a bummer.

 

[Jabumbo]

It'd better than Discraft Pro-D, but still not a very dye friendly blend.

So my idea to find a cheap pack of soft magnets and dye them isn't the best idea?

 

[cjd0718]

Does anyone use a specific vector image site (preferably free) to download images to then be cut by a vinyl printer?

 

[Plasticsnapsauce]

Bleaching/ WhiteWashing a disc

So I have a Star plastic disc that is solid black. It's a real pain to find if I lose sight of it and was wondering if there is any way to lighten the color of a disc. I imagine that solid black would be difficult to do this with.

 

[rd.bittle]

Nope

 

[Noill]

Metallic sharpie maybe? Draw out a design that shines!

 

[wolfmandragon]

Semi update on the marker dye front - I did some digging in a thread on here and it seems someone else tried filling the empty craft markers with dye and it didn't work.

There's a brand of worm dye manufacturer called Spike It that makes a dye marker, apparently they work fine. A google search found only a few colors available in an unscented option, no black, which was a bummer.

You could mix up the I dye poly with either water/acetone mixture or uncolored washing detergent. Using a bamboo pen, like Chinese ink painting, to apply the dye.

I have used this method with a brush and it works. The bamboo pen would be more like using a sharpie.

Here is how it is done with ink, detergent and dye has about the same thickness. Add water if too thick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbMcwQrV8E