OD Green Spyderco Manix 1

[Infi-del]

This is part of my thread asking if one could dye G10. Thanks to every who replied. Here is what it looked like before...

Foliage Green Manix 1

And the new look after dying and soaking in solvent to remove excess and lock the color in.

The blue soaked in a little heavy around the lock area, and you really can only see it in the right light, but overall I'm VERY pleased with the result.

 

[Squashfan]

Looks awesome man! You did a great job!

 

[Infi-del]

It went in a lot of different directions before I got it right... I tried some orange at first knowing that a ton of Orange/Yellow and a touch of Blue/Green was what I needed. First it came out a rust color, then a brownish olive that was too dark... so I used the Rit Color remover and it turned like a Key Lime Olive color... they I hit it with two packs of Lemon Yellow and just a dash of royal blue and got my final color. Soaked it in rubbing alcohol to pull out any excess and scrubbed it with a toothbrush. That should lock the color in pretty well. Here are some of the other colors it turned out before I was happy...


The rust color was actually kinda cool.

 

[Czechmate]

Looks good Keith! I like the rust color too; the foliage green is kinda bland so anything is an improvement IMO...

I'm still bummed that black G10 can't be bleached a bit to add different colours to give it extra pop.

 

[Infi-del]

Yeah, luckily foliage is kinda bright so you got options. Part of me wishes I had left it the Rust color... looks pretty badass in hindsight.

 

[Squashfan]

IMO, both colors look good.