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Show off your home dye jobs

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Permalink Reply by Moe Dee on September 17, 2010 at 7:55am

how did ya get the "s " so dark ? n what disc is that , thanx

Permalink Reply by Mystery on January 10, 2008 at 12:57pm

I have a plotter that cuts the design. I use a combo of liquid and crystal dyes. I mask with contact paper. Masking is my biggest problem, and learning how to use Adobe Illustrator software is the next.

Permalink Reply by AciDBatH666 on June 3, 2009 at 11:10pm

Pretty much all my latest stuff is done with my plotter. All my work can be found here
http://www.myspace.com/acidye

Permalink Reply by caddrafter on January 16, 2008 at 2:14am

I've dyed five discs so far. I hand cut my vinyl, dip for black, and paint on the colors.
Here they are in order:

164g Elite-Z Cyclone

175g dx Shark

175 star TeeRex

150g Star Skeeter

175 star XD

Permalink Reply by Mystery on January 16, 2008 at 11:52pm

Paint the colors with dye or paint?

Permalink Reply by caddrafter on January 17, 2008 at 1:52am

I paint on dye using a paint brush. By using only dye the discs remain tournament legal. If regular paint were used it would add thickness to the disc and you would no longer be able to use the disc at PDGA tournaments.

Permalink Reply by PANDABOMB on January 21, 2008 at 12:55am

where did you find a star xd?!!!

Permalink Reply by caddrafter on February 5, 2008 at 12:27am

I got my star XD from a guy in Portland named Gawain. I met him through the odsa.com website. He had 2 for sale, so I got one. I'd been looking for a star XD for about 2 months.

Permalink Reply by Arthur Haverkamp on April 19, 2008 at 6:36pm

still have a question about the painting part...do you use liquid rit for it and mix that with acetone or just plain rit(powder or liquid) and just use a brush to get it on there?
-also love the american flag design.how in the hell did you get those stars on there?did you do that by hand or was this done with a plotter?
Arthur

Permalink Reply by caddrafter on January 17, 2008 at 1:57am

Very cool idea dying your kids hands! I love it.
Tape doesn't work well. Get vinyl if you can. If you can't get vinyl, plain contact paper works pretty well. I still mask the edges with contact paper so I can get away with using less vinyl on each disc.

Permalink Reply by Ken McKinney on January 18, 2008 at 10:20am