Help with dyeing tan G10

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I want to dye tan G10 to a red color. For those who have experience RIT dyeing scales, please help me with the dye color and process. I have the general process down, which is to say I've watched a few YouTube videos. If anyone has specific suggestions, I'm all ears (actually, eyes).

Here's the background:
I purchased a user PM2 sprint with tan scales (bought for a great price) for the sole purpose of turning it into a PM2 trainer. I will re-use the liners, scales and hardware, and will try my hand at grinding a training blade (probably will use something like 440C).

I figured the tan G10 is the best "readily-available" scales that is close to red - the grey scales would be better but I don't even have that sprint yet in my PM2 collection, so acquiring one and turning an expensive knife into a trainer was not an option.
 
It's really very strait forward. Boil water. Add dye. Stir until all the dye is desolved. Take of the heat. Works best just below boiling. Add g-10. I like to let it sit for atleast 5 mins (not always necessary but I like to give the color time to take). Make sure you flip the scales half way through to insure both sides get good coverage. Then just rinse with colt water and your done. Here is a pic I did of my old southard.

 
This earth brown (likely your tan):
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Shifted to olive using Rits:
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Since red and green oppose on the color wheel, I had to try to overcome the red (which is the predominate pigment in earth brown). In your case you'll be just strengthening the red so it should work much more predictably. Remember you're blending old w/ new-- not covering it. And IDK that it's necessary but I simmer for 30/40 minutes, I think I get better saturation w/ longer exposure.


BTW really like the camo southard pictured above-- what was used for the masking?
 
Thanks for the info thus far, guys. I prefer to use factory scales rather than aftermarket. I figure if I am going to re-use the liners anyway, might as well just use the factory scales. This way I don't have to worry about fitment, and the only thing left to figure out is grinding the trainer blade.

The answer to this following question is probably obvious but I will ask anyway... what color dye should I be using? Should it be red? Plain red? Or some other hue/color? Also, is there any option other than RIT dye? Just wondering if there is anything better.
 
Don't recall offhand but I think there are 2 Rit reds-- choose the brighter of the 2 as the existing pigment will dull it a tad.

Anodizing pigments would likely work methinks but would be much spendier-- I'd stick w/ Rit dyes.
 
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