Rite Dye of FRN

[RugerNurse]

I was thinking of dying the scales on the green lc200n native if I pick one up and the reassembly looks straightforward on videos. To those who have dyed the scales, is the lockback style difficult to reassemble? Or does it take some work to get it working properly?

 

[DMG]

I was thinking of dying the scales on the green lc200n native if I pick one up and the reassembly looks straightforward on videos. To those who have dyed the scales, is the lockback style difficult to reassemble? Or does it take some work to get it working properly?

Do you have to disassemble it to dye it?

 

[RugerNurse]

Do you have to disassemble it to dye it?

I wondered that. The videos all have people take the scales off to drop in the Rite Dye. If I lowered the knife blade but didn’t but the blade in would it damage the hardware?

 

[DMG]

I wondered that. The videos all have people take the scales off to drop in the Rite Dye. If I lowered the knife blade but didn’t but the blade in would it damage the hardware?

I don’t know. I think the Salt series should be fine but I haven’t done it.

 

[King of the Cheese]

What are you wanting to dye them? Best base colors to dye are white or gray. Not sure what you can dye the green other than black. I recommend disassembly, clean with rubbing alcohol and then rinse thoroughly. If you don’t disassemble, you’re going to have dye leak out into your pocket from somewhere inside the knife, and that won’t be good. All it takes is a drop of dye and your pants are ruined.

 

[Knives&Lint]

Not difficult at all, since it screws apart into two. Much easier than the Pacific Salts and Dragonflys that I've done where that is not the case. I've always disassembled for the dye bath myself, though I have seen it done plenty of times without. Even though it probably wouldn't be a problem, something about it just doesn't seem right when I'm about to it, so I always go ahead and disassemble.

 

[RugerNurse]

What are you wanting to dye them? Best base colors to dye are white or gray. Not sure what you can dye the green other than black. I recommend disassembly, clean with rubbing alcohol and then rinse thoroughly. If you don’t disassemble, you’re going to have dye leak out into your pocket from somewhere inside the knife, and that won’t be good. All it takes is a drop of dye and your pants are ruined.

Probably black. The green looks too bright to carry daily. Shame because the lc200n steel is nice

 

[Knives&Lint]

What are you wanting to dye them? Best base colors to dye are white or gray. Not sure what you can dye the green other than black. I recommend disassembly, clean with rubbing alcohol and then rinse thoroughly. If you don’t disassemble, you’re going to have dye leak out into your pocket from somewhere inside the knife, and that won’t be good. All it takes is a drop of dye and your pants are ruined.

True. For the hell of it I attempted a fade dye on mine with "Tropical Teal". It turned out just darker green for the most part, sometimes almost black, but in direct sunlight the blue comes through. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but I'm fine with it, and it was just an experiment anyway.

 

[King of the Cheese]

True. For the hell of it I attempted a fade dye on mine with "Tropical Teal". It turned out just darker green for the most part, sometimes almost black, but in direct sunlight the blue comes through. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but I'm fine with it, and it was just an experiment anyway.

I mean that doesn’t seem terrible. I wonder what a quick one or two second dunk of the entire scales would’ve looked like.

 

[Knives&Lint]

I mean that doesn’t seem terrible. I wonder what a quick one or two second dunk of the entire scales would’ve looked like.

It's hard to say. I think you could get a decent dark green with this one, or black like he is doing is a safe bet. Honestly I never can predict it, but always end up pleased with the results for the most part. I recently dyed some natural canvas micarta witch was pretty much tan with the same tropical teal. At first it looked alot like the color on this one and I thought it was going to be a bust, but that was just because the micarta was still wet, and it dried looking great .