Ok so since I have to wait for more etchant I figure I will mod something else while I wait. A couple people have been using the Rit dye on the tweener sheaths but that stuff is kind of a weak dye and I remembered I had some green dye left over from a custom job which should have no trouble on a tweener sheath. I think. 
Dye is tricky stuff to work with, you can always go darker but it is damn hard to go lighter.
Some dye stuff, Remember your play doh days? Green and light brown make a lighter green also lovingly known as baby poo. I'm shooting for an od/foliage or close to it
You have to dilute the stuff
No time to snap a shot dying, it was a quick dunk roll and out, easy to redunk if needed but not so easy if it's too dark.
After the dye flashes off
Probably a couple hours til it's dry and I can see if it needs another quick bath, This stuff always dries lighter than you think. I'll check it out in the morning and see what we got and clean up the snaps and eyelets.
I wonder how the pb scales would do in the dye.........hmmm boiling alcohol based dye let's see, goggles and gloves, check, fire extinguisher, check....
Dye is tricky stuff to work with, you can always go darker but it is damn hard to go lighter.
Some dye stuff, Remember your play doh days? Green and light brown make a lighter green also lovingly known as baby poo. I'm shooting for an od/foliage or close to it
You have to dilute the stuff
No time to snap a shot dying, it was a quick dunk roll and out, easy to redunk if needed but not so easy if it's too dark.
After the dye flashes off
Probably a couple hours til it's dry and I can see if it needs another quick bath, This stuff always dries lighter than you think. I'll check it out in the morning and see what we got and clean up the snaps and eyelets.
I wonder how the pb scales would do in the dye.........hmmm boiling alcohol based dye let's see, goggles and gloves, check, fire extinguisher, check....
