Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by cudarunner

"Hair dye didn't stain the CA". Now I've got to play a bit. I've got a piece of bovine leg bone that I've coated 1/2 with some common super glue and I'll wait till tomorrow and see what happens when I apply the Black (it's really black) leather dye to the piece.

Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Hey Roy!

Outback/Mike has said this a few times. You cant Dye CA. Hope you figure out something good.

And thanks for the props on the scales. I got another coat on them so next week for putting together.

Ok, as promised, I've been playing a bit.

Here's the piece of bone that I used for this little experiment:



I applied common super glue to the area on the right of the RED LINE/I let it dry overnight:

This morning I applied a pretty heavy layer of the Black Leather Dye:



After letting it dry for about 5-6 hours, I wiped the piece off. Very little came off:



So I soaked the piece in some Neatsfoot oil for about 3 hours and a bit did come off:

So leather dye is the trick. Thanks for the experiment mr wizard.

Originally Posted by Gasman

So leather dye is the trick. Thanks for the experiment mr wizard.

Well as I said the s**t seems to stain anything it comes in contact with. However I would think that others should experiment a bit on their own before committing a lot of funds and effort to a project involving staining super glue.

I've got another idea that I'm going to play with here in a bit. I'll try to get some more pics with the results.

Roy, did you try sanding the ca side at all to see how deep the dye went?

Originally Posted by jfk742

Roy, did you try sanding the ca side at all to see how deep the dye went?

NO--I'll give that a go once this next experiment is over/should be within an hour.

Hmm, interesting...maybe bone acts differently than horn? Different structure/material?

Raw, that would be very true, however with a CA coating it’s the coating that has plagued guys on how to get it coloured. Apparently CA can to some degree be stained along with the horn and the bone, all you seem to need is leather dye.

My test was to run that bone through the dishwasher/top shelf/full heat and soap. Looks like Super Glue is still King of the Hill--

So the dye does not penetrate into the CA at all. A lot of stuff can come off in the dishwasher that would not under regular use though. I’m thinking about gold paint on China, photos on mugs, that sort of stuff, so dye on CA is not completely bullet proof. It may survive shaving though.

I figured that an Extreme Test would be in order, that's why the dishwasher.

I'd rubbed it many times today and nothing came off but I would imagine with time and on scales or such it would eventually rub off. As I said I hope others will do some playing of their own.

Note: I hadn't done any kind of sanding or scuffing on the CA, I just put drops of it on until that one half was covered.