Thanks for the offer, if you want to send some I'll be happy to try it for a future project.

I think the charcoal will work well. It's giving a nice black color and hasn't messed with the cure time. It's a little grainy, but I didn't grind it super fine, just smacked it with a hammer a few times. I'll run it through a mortar and pestle for the real fix.

The dye seems to have slowed the cure time for the epoxy and the color is purple when thin. I'll know for sure tomorrow. Oh, and this dye isn't a two part box dye. It's something called a pot dye my daughter told me about. It's premixed and stable for unknown amounts of time. Kind of a paste consistency. You can mix it with water or smear it on as the paste. $10 for a good size jar, probably get 20+ scale pairs from a jar. And as a bonus it smells like grape jelly . I haven't entirely decided if I'll use this or a box dye for the final soak. The purple tint makes me hesitate a bit.

The top left is the charcoal mix
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