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Title: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Echatham on October 19, 2013, 03:41:00 PM
trying to pick analine dye colors on a color chart is really hard    :help:     :campfire:
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Crooked Stic on October 19, 2013, 04:51:00 PM
Glass or wood backed? I do glass bows and the stain would look different under glass.This recurve has lemon yellow stained actionboo under glass.
 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/crookedstic/Recurve%20bows/DSC01575.jpg)
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 19, 2013, 05:41:00 PM
Black Walnut.
 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f165/ROY-CHRIS/31a.jpg) (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/ROY-CHRIS/media/31a.jpg.html)

Light Golden walnut.

 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f165/ROY-CHRIS/IMG_7694.jpg) (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/ROY-CHRIS/media/IMG_7694.jpg.html)

Charcoal Gray stain turns the Osage a green color. No picture of that. Buy about 4 different colors and go from there. One of those little bottles lasts for years....
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Echatham on October 19, 2013, 05:42:00 PM
Thanks crooked stick but yeah i mean bamboo backed.  I want to do some kinda sunburst pattern at the nodes like o have seen alot of people do... Just not sure what color pattern i want to do
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Echatham on October 19, 2013, 05:44:00 PM
Oooh pretty roy!  Is that back and belly of the same bow?
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 19, 2013, 05:47:00 PM
After you stain the bow, rubbing the bow with 0000 steel wool will lighten it up as much as you want.. Bowjunkie makes his bows darker at the riser and fades it out to a lighter color. The possibilities are endless...
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 19, 2013, 05:50:00 PM
No different bows up there. Last bow I just used light golden walnut on the boo and nothing on the Osage. Use your imagination:) The alcohol based stain is great for blending two or three colors together. That is why I recommend it...
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Echatham on October 19, 2013, 05:51:00 PM
Can you just slap two colors on there and then blend it with alcohol?  Is that how it works?
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 19, 2013, 05:53:00 PM
This stain comes as a powder, Eric. You just mix a little with denatured alcohol. The more powder you add the darker it gets. if ya get it too dark, mix in more alcohol to lighten it up.
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Roy from Pa on October 19, 2013, 05:56:00 PM
Can you just slap two colors on there and then blend it with alcohol? Is that how it works?

Yes... Try it on a test piece and see.
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Echatham on October 19, 2013, 05:59:00 PM
Sweet..... But the colors!  There's too many colors!    :laughing:
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: TimBoA on October 19, 2013, 09:26:00 PM
Have you seen James Parker's bows?  He does awesome stain work on bamboo.  Try googling "bamboo backed and belly parker".  

I really like that Black Walnut stain on Roy's bow!
Title: Re: can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?
Post by: Bivyhunter on October 21, 2013, 11:51:00 PM
A word of caution, the alcohol stain color fades over time. The waterbase holds the color much better.
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