Easy Disc Dye Technique

[Kevro79]

First of all, I love this site. I recently joined and I have seen and learned a lot of cool stuff. Since I have only been playing for a year, I have a lot to learn. But, I did try my first dye today, and it came out pretty good. Here is what I did.

-I made sure I had a disc with the right kind of plastic. Of my discs, my Discraft Avenger ESP FLX was the best bet.

-I searched my home for supplies. I found an x-acto knife, clear contact paper, painter's tape, and amazingly some Black Rit Dye that had been in my laundry room for who knows how long. Since I basically had all the supplies, I jumped right into dyeing my first disc.

1. I took the factory image off with acetone and a paper towel. Simply wipe it off.

2. second, I needed a design: type in "stencil" on google, the first site listed was the best one. I found a design, printed it off.

3. I taped that paper on top of the contact paper, and cut out the image.

4. I used painters tape to cover the cut out image on the contact paper so when I pulled the backing off, the thin areas would remain in place.

5. Then I placed the image on the disc and made sure all air bubbles were out.

-now is where I changed things up

6. Instead of making a "bath" of rit dye on the stove. I simply poured a little rit dye powder in a glass (only around 1/6 of the bag), added around 10 drops of a dark food coloring and just a little water until it was the consistency of toothpaste. (not sure if the food coloring is necessary, but it works)

7. Heated it in the microwave for around 5 seconds, and stirred it up again.

8. Then I covered the cut out image on the disc with the paste and waited around 5-10 min.

9. Wash off the Dye paste and peel of the contact paper and you are done.

This left a nice, dark image on my disc and none of the dye went underneath the contact paper.

All in all the totaly process took me 30 min. This is the final product:

I hope this helped some of you beginners like me. Now I will test more and more techniques. Thank you for reading!

 

[bigjon318]

Look's good! Now, how long till every disc you own has been covered???

 

[mrjohnahawley]

Thats awesome! I am on this first thing in morning!

 

[Kevro79]

Thanks! to answer your question bigjon318, I haven't stopped thinking about it since I actually pulled it off. If my other discs weren't mainly DX and Pro-D plastic I would dye them all, but from what I've read, those plastics don't take dye well. I'm trying to figure out what to add onto the bull disc I just did. I also have an Innova Champion Sidewinder I want to dye, which is the disc I use the most for drives. Basically im really excited about being able to customize my discs. Let me know how your disc turns out mrjohnhawley. I wish you the success I had with my first dye.

 

[BennettUA]

Great start! I love me some Red Bull, fits right in my disc bag, and makes for a great dye!

You CAN dye your DX and Pro-D plastic, it just takes more time in the dye. Use a little acetone in the mix to speed things up, but try it anyway, a small faded dye is still better than nothing imho!

 

[Kevro79]

Thanks! your disc looks great. Hopefully I can get to that point. Do you use a plotter BennettUA? or do you actually use an x-acto to cut all of the layers for that disc? I'm probably going to obtain one of the x-acto 360 blades i've been hearing about. And now you brought up a good point about my DX and Pro-D plastics, I will probably dye them now just get more practice and to make my disc the most badass of all my friends haha. I appreciate the comments, hope all of you have a great day.