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Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
By:Kudzu
Date: 1/5/2009, 5:02 pm

I have a call in on this but thought I would ask meantime. I ordered some Copper colored acid dye. Just mixed it up following the instructions. The color looked OK but soft of dark in the pot. Tried it on a scrap piece of the nylon and it was anything but copper. It had a green cast to it. Dried it with a heat gun and it looked better, not good! It was a muddy color. No where near the reddish copper I was expecting. I put some poly on it to make sure and was not impressed at all.

I finally poured it out. No way was that going on my boat. Anyone had anything like this happen? I kept thinking I did something wrong but I measured out the water and vinegar and sure I got that right. So I have to assume the mixture just wasn't copper.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Kudzu -- 1/5/2009, 5:02 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Aaron H -- 1/6/2009, 1:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Kudzu -- 1/6/2009, 2:35 pm
Why dye now?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/7/2009, 5:51 am
Re: Why dye now?
Kudzu -- 1/7/2009, 4:32 pm
Re: Why dye now?
Mike Bielski -- 1/8/2009, 1:29 pm
Re: Why dye now?
Kudzu -- 1/9/2009, 6:02 pm
Re: Why dye now?
Bill Hamm -- 1/8/2009, 12:55 am
Re: Why dye now?
Aaron H -- 1/7/2009, 5:17 pm
Re: Why dye now?
Aaron H -- 1/7/2009, 10:25 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Bill Hamm -- 1/6/2009, 12:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Kudzu -- 1/6/2009, 1:08 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Bill Hamm -- 1/7/2009, 1:26 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Kudzu -- 1/7/2009, 9:05 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Bill Hamm -- 1/8/2009, 1:23 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Acid dye color
Charlie -- 1/5/2009, 8:15 pm