It looks like your die experiment did pretty well for the first try. I used pigments to color paints and Gelcoats building fiberglass molds and cabinets for different things. Rite die just uses water to impart color to cloth. You could try other types of pigments. Oil based pigments and color stains for wood could give you more control of the colors you want to make. The pigments I used were amazingly permanent; a pin drop of the stuff was lethal. If it got on any porous material like wood, plastics and skin is was there for life just about. Pranksters would put a tiny drop of it on a terry phone and call their intended victim to the booby-trap phone. The rest of the day the poor guy had a green, red, orange, or some other color ear. It was nearly impossible to remove. Rite dye is likely the least effective coloring. I know there are far better ones because I used some.
Hey Tobias! In the old days, people would make an ink by boiling walnut rinds straining it and mixing with pure alchohol. It’s a beautiful brown color. Those rinds stain everything, so I recommend trying it if you happen to have walnut trees in your area. That would be a really cool bone color. This idea literally just popped into my head, so I might have to try it myself!
Use ever clear to wipe down the scales, then dye with Alcohol base leather dye of the color of your choice. use dye reducer to lighten the color to your liking, or use light color dye first and darken as you go. No heat required.
I quite like the antique brown with with boiling tea idea but rather let you experiment with one of your smooth white bone knives first! Haha! very interesting video tho 🙂
I'd say a pink elephant is dandy Tobias. I am going to try the same but use rit synthetic dye instead. I have a few knife handles I want to try out to see as well. I think I'll shoot for a turquoise color so that if I drop it I can find it much easier out in the wild. I'll let you know how it went once I give it a try. Thanks for the video and the inspiration to diy some handles.
I think adding a layer of clear coat will help prevent it from rubbing off. I dyed a white bone Canoe, then later scrapped it off with a knife. It has a blue tint to it. I'll use the same knife in a turn it Orange attempt.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias I was pretty mad about it but like you said you live and you learn. The dye job was hardly even noticable and lead me to believe that different steels will react differently to the process. I believe your blade chipped due to 440a being a softer steel. From my experience carbon steel shouldn't be heated at all.
I admire your enterprise, but I think I’ll leave dying to you! My white smooth bone RR elephant’s toenail looks lovely as it is. A great watch though, thank you!
I've just seen so many people doing this and saying it works great and its permanent and it has always set off my "Bull Sh**" alarm. Same with the dying stuff with kool-aid. It looks good so long as you don't actually handle it or get wet or sweaty.
I'd like to see the black when ya do it, i think it will be nice. and never have used leather dye so interested in that also. I have oiled my knives and the oil has leached into the bone, so I dont think those would be suitable for dying, but in the future I will for sure.
Just a word of warning which may or may not be the case. I've found that a lot of black inks and dyes are really, really, dark purple. And when they fade, or get a bit washed out...you get a purple knife.
I think it looks fantastic! I got two of them and planned to do a schrimsaw attempt but now I'm tempted to dye one of them instead... ;-) Happy New Year from Sweden!
I'll drink to that. I admire your tenacity Tobias, nice work. I have seen a few attempts at dying and the reds do seem to come out more pink than red. I wonder if after leaching you redo the whole process it would darken some? I have a white smooth bone covered knife ready to go and I'm going to try the tea darkening technique. I imagine one needs to use a lot of tea bags.
Always so much fun to do it yourself sometimes. On the one with Scrim shaw how did you get the bone so white?? Knife matches pretty well with those others.
The would be a nice pink shade for Kitty but you should ask Kitty for permission first. I am experimenting with tea as a dye and will let you know later how it turns out. I am only looking for an aged scrimshaw of old ivory type of look.
I have used tea and it works quite well. I start with really strong boiling tea. Take it off the heating element submerge the knife and let it sit over night. Leaves you with a nice "antique bone look"
@@jgbullen Yep! Tea works great! I actually used four Lipton tea bags. I also did one in Earl Gray! I'm not going to do that again. I can no longer carry it unless I'm wearing a monocle!
You might want to try using a fixative: www.ritdye.com/instructions/how-to-use-rit-color-stay-dye-fixative/ Also, you might want to try adding vinegar to dye to see if you can get a deeper color before going to the fixative.
I have. I actually did one in Charcoal gray that worked pretty well. I show it about 11 minutes in to this video: th-cam.com/video/MxItoTkhJP0/w-d-xo.html
If you're going to do another dyeing upload...you skated this time...but next time you may not be so lucky. And the language cops might be out in force busting you for your unique and endearing way of spelling "dyeing."
Good video. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
It looks like your die experiment did pretty well for the first try. I used pigments to color paints and Gelcoats building fiberglass molds and cabinets for different things. Rite die just uses water to impart color to cloth. You could try other types of pigments. Oil based pigments and color stains for wood could give you more control of the colors you want to make. The pigments I used were amazingly permanent; a pin drop of the stuff was lethal. If it got on any porous material like wood, plastics and skin is was there for life just about. Pranksters would put a tiny drop of it on a terry phone and call their intended victim to the booby-trap phone. The rest of the day the poor guy had a green, red, orange, or some other color ear. It was nearly impossible to remove. Rite dye is likely the least effective coloring. I know there are far better ones because I used some.
Hey Tobias! In the old days, people would make an ink by boiling walnut rinds straining it and mixing with pure alchohol. It’s a beautiful brown color. Those rinds stain everything, so I recommend trying it if you happen to have walnut trees in your area. That would be a really cool bone color. This idea literally just popped into my head, so I might have to try it myself!
I wonder if pecan rinds would work?
Use ever clear to wipe down the scales, then dye with Alcohol base leather dye of the color of your choice. use dye reducer to lighten the color to your liking, or use light color dye first and darken as you go. No heat required.
Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.
Huh. Interesting. Looking forward to seeing the leather dye work. Thanks for sharing!
Very good attempt Tobias! Thanks for sharing!!
I quite like the antique brown with with boiling tea idea but rather let you experiment with one of your smooth white bone knives first! Haha! very interesting video tho 🙂
I think the dye worked great!! Great job partner!!
Good job on the scrimshaw.
Wow you are brave. I would never attempt anything like this. Nice work sir.
I' seriously considering doing a scrimshaw to one of my sunfish knives. I watched your video on the topic
Go for it! What's the worse that can happen? Be careful and just take your time.
I'd say a pink elephant is dandy Tobias. I am going to try the same but use rit synthetic dye instead. I have a few knife handles I want to try out to see as well. I think I'll shoot for a turquoise color so that if I drop it I can find it much easier out in the wild. I'll let you know how it went once I give it a try.
Thanks for the video and the inspiration to diy some handles.
I think adding a layer of clear coat will help prevent it from rubbing off. I dyed a white bone Canoe, then later scrapped it off with a knife. It has a blue tint to it. I'll use the same knife in a turn it Orange attempt.
I'll never dye bone again with rite. I pitted a back spring on a GEC 44 and completely pitted a carbon blade on a eye brand knife.
Wow! That would have pissed me off to no end!
@@KnifeChatswithTobias I was pretty mad about it but like you said you live and you learn. The dye job was hardly even noticable and lead me to believe that different steels will react differently to the process. I believe your blade chipped due to 440a being a softer steel. From my experience carbon steel shouldn't be heated at all.
Great video. Thank you.
Scary stuff! I'm going to have to tell my WSB knives that it's ok.
I admire your enterprise, but I think I’ll leave dying to you! My white smooth bone RR elephant’s toenail looks lovely as it is. A great watch though, thank you!
I've just seen so many people doing this and saying it works great and its permanent and it has always set off my "Bull Sh**" alarm. Same with the dying stuff with kool-aid. It looks good so long as you don't actually handle it or get wet or sweaty.
Happy New Year !!!
Oooh, the joys of DIY
I'd like to see the black when ya do it, i think it will be nice. and never have used leather dye so interested in that also. I have oiled my knives and the oil has leached into the bone, so I dont think those would be suitable for dying, but in the future I will for sure.
Just a word of warning which may or may not be the case. I've found that a lot of black inks and dyes are really, really, dark purple. And when they fade, or get a bit washed out...you get a purple knife.
I think it looks fantastic! I got two of them and planned to do a schrimsaw attempt but now I'm tempted to dye one of them instead... ;-) Happy New Year from Sweden!
I'll drink to that. I admire your tenacity Tobias, nice work. I have seen a few attempts at dying and the reds do seem to come out more pink than red. I wonder if after leaching you redo the whole process it would darken some? I have a white smooth bone covered knife ready to go and I'm going to try the tea darkening technique. I imagine one needs to use a lot of tea bags.
I have used boiling hot tea with good effect for antiquing white smooth bone. And it is permanent. I usually let that sit over night
Always so much fun to do it yourself sometimes. On the one with Scrim shaw how did you get the bone so white?? Knife matches pretty well with those others.
The would be a nice pink shade for Kitty but you should ask Kitty for permission first. I am experimenting with tea as a dye and will let you know later how it turns out. I am only looking for an aged scrimshaw of old ivory type of look.
I have used tea and it works quite well. I start with really strong boiling tea. Take it off the heating element submerge the knife and let it sit over night. Leaves you with a nice "antique bone look"
@@KnifeChatswithTobias I did it and it came out great. For Paddy I used 2 bags if Twinings Irish Breakfast.
@@jgbullen Yep! Tea works great! I actually used four Lipton tea bags. I also did one in Earl Gray! I'm not going to do that again. I can no longer carry it unless I'm wearing a monocle!
I wonder if it was just heat stress, and not boiling vibration, that caused that little edge chip?
Another person mentioned the same thing. Could very well be.
I think it looks good I have a rough rider that the brown dye comes off on my hand but it doesnt seem to change color.
You might want to try using a fixative: www.ritdye.com/instructions/how-to-use-rit-color-stay-dye-fixative/
Also, you might want to try adding vinegar to dye to see if you can get a deeper color before going to the fixative.
Thanks for the tips. I’m going to make a second attempt with Charcoal Gray Rit Dye.
@@KnifeChatswithTobias Looking forward to seeing if you can get any better results here!
Hope this turns out better then the koolaid, lol, thanks for the chat
Wonder if you should put a clear coat on it, I would be worried that it would stain the pocket
That turned out better for sure
Tobias, have you tried dyeing any more knives since you did this one?
I have. I actually did one in Charcoal gray that worked pretty well. I show it about 11 minutes in to this video: th-cam.com/video/MxItoTkhJP0/w-d-xo.html
@@KnifeChatswithTobias Shucks yeah, I've seen that video. It just wasn't pulling up in my memory. Thanks!
If you're going to do another dyeing upload...you skated this time...but next time you may not be so lucky. And the language cops might be out in force busting you for your unique and endearing way of spelling "dyeing."
To avoid disaster I leave the dying to the experts!😂