Dark Green RIT Dye

Guyon

Guyon

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...will do this. Thanks to Hawk590 for the idea about "greening" the scales. I tried a BH patch, and as you can see, it makes the coloring more of a multi-cam.

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I have a Short sheath that has been in the dye bath for over an hour. Pics forthcoming when it's done.
 
yeah, the RIT makes the PB scales a GREAT color!

Biscuit, if u dont mind would u throw in a few specifics? what concentration, how long, etc etc
 
thrill, I used the powdered RIT, mixed the whole box with maybe two gallons of hot water in a big boiler, and heated it up a little more on my grill's side burner.
I left the scales in around 20 minutes before I pulled them. For the fabrics, the directions called for 1 cup of distilled vinegar when doing nylon/synthetics, so I added vinegar.
I left the patch in around 15 minutes. The sheath has now been in for 1 hour and 40 minutes. I'm going to leave it in for 2 hours before I call it quits.
With the sheath, I've been occasionally turning on the burner to keep the water hot. Apparently, synthetics dye better at higher temps.
 
Excellent! I talked to Hawk @ the Gathering about this, but didn't get too in detail. I'm doing this soon!!
 
I was basically following Hawk's lead. He told me he left 'em in about 15 to 20 minutes.
 
Sheath stayed in over 2.5 hours. It's still wet in this pic, and it'll probably lighten up a bit as it dries.
I'll take some shots tomorrow when it's dry and I've got some decent natural light.

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The BKT forum should get free shares of stock in RIT for all of the green dye we've been buying off of them lately haha. Looks good man, I bet they'll look even better when they fade off a bit from use. I'm guessing it was hard to get a true rendering of the color across in the picture but from my recent experience with green RIT dye I'm sure they're awesome. Love the sheath too, I saved some of my green dye for exactly the same purpose.
 
Gonna go get some green and some black RIT dye when I can, definitely gonna have this done! And I'm gonna see if I can somehow turn the tan on the BH patch into silver or gray! If someone tries it before me, let me now.
 
This thread is full of exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you for bringing this up Guyon! I've been sitting here staring at my 17's sheath trying to figure out what I can do with it. I have a pile of bags in black, ACU, ABU, BDU, sage and foliage green. And yet I only have 1 coyote brown sat com bag. Now I just have to find the time to get this done...
 
oXide said:
And I'm gonna see if I can somehow turn the tan on the BH patch into silver or gray!
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The tan background on the BH patch budged the least. It just did not want to take any dye. I'll post a before and after pic of the patch tomorrow.
 
Myker said:
Ahh, what's the difference?
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Not a whole lot on the scales when compared to black. The right set of scales have a greenish tint though. Easier to see in good light.

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Here's a before and after on the sheaths.

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The only casualty was the back button. I must've gotten it too close to the heat source because I lost the paint.
I dulled it with some cold blue. I may hit it with a few more applications to get it good and dark.

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Here's the "16 Green" ready to ride.

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