Rit Dye???

combatjiujitsu

combatjiujitsu

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I have acquired a yellow mini-grip in a trade, love the knife hate the color. What would be the best color that would take well to the yellow? Anyone have any experience with Rit Dye? How long to leave it in the dye / color mixes etc....
 
I used to do yoyos using RIT dye. I used the powder version, in boiling water, and suspended the yoyo within the solution. It cannot touch the metal, since temperatures are more intense there. I believe this also applies to knives. Just have it almost boiling, and then dip the knife, leave it for a minute, take it out, check, dip, check. When it's getting close, you might want to wash it to be able to see its true color. RIT dye doesn't color the knife, it mixes over the original color. So, in theory, yellow and blue would get you green. It's not a perfect practice, and it might end up closer to one of either colors. I think the surest bet would be to go dark, to cover up as much yellow as possible. So go with black. Although it would probably come out a bit closer to brown, since the yellow will lighten the black up somewhat. Keep dipping it in to let it get darker. It'd be a lot harder to ruin black, since there's no such thing as too dark there.
 
Red dye will indeed get you an orange handle. In fact it's better to use red dye than orange. For the best orange you'll need to use Crimson red. The intensity of the color will depend on your dye to water ratio. Follow the directions on the dye packet...that is, use a specific amount of dye per cup of water.

Have a container of cold water nearby to drop the knife in immediately upon removing it from the dye bath. The color will look different before rinsing than it does after. Check the color often, at least every ten or fifteen seconds. It can go from too light to too dark almost instantly.

I've been using dye for a number of years and it's turned into something of a hobby. You can learn to do some surprising things, including going from a darker to a lighter color.

The knife in the picture below started out blue. I turned it first to a very dark purple and then to the swamp green it is now.

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I've been wondering the same thing. Trying to turn a yellow Salt purple.
I've tried different combinations of purple, blue, and scarlet.
I tested on yellow nylon zip ties.
Using 2Tbsp of color to 4C water, near boiling, with a drop of Woolite, 20 shakes of salt, and about 1/2 tsp vinegar in the solution,
These are some of my results:

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Left to right:
Original, 2T purple - 2 minutes; 2T purple for 1.5 min & 1T purple + 1T blue for 1/2 min; 1T/ea royal blue and purple - 2 min; 1T royal blue, 1/2T purple, 1/2T scarlet - 2 min; 2T Royal blue + 2T purple - 5 min.
I know they didn't come out great in my photo.
In sunlight, they look:
Yellow, reddish brown, forest green, dark green, OD green, and black.
I think with a yellow base, your best bet is to go for a green or an orange.
Unless someone can give a detailed description of how to get purple from yellow, I'm going to leave my Salt alone.
 
Purple, you say? In the first picture below is a light I dyed dark red, including both the Nitrolon and aluminum bezels. The light was originally yellow.

Someone asked me to make a purple light as a gift for his daughter. I had no more yellow lights, so I made a purple one from the red. It's the top light in the second picture below. I wish I could give a detailed description of how I did it but that's a bit like telling someone how to draw a picture. Basically, you just have to work with it.

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Have you tried the mod at all?
I have a 3" yellow XM-18 that i'm thinking of dying so i can get it to be bright orange!
It seems a better idea that to order a $65 scale.
Shall i use red also?

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