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Started by 003sim, August 03, 2010, 03:36:00 PM

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003sim

I have just finished creating this bamboo backed osage and I am looking for some photos of your favorite dye jobs you may have. I am thinking about just brown dye trying to make it a little darker around the nodes our maybe a light green base with brown and black mixed in there somehow.
 I haven't posted a picture on here either so I created a photobucket account and will try and get that to work on here also.
 I would love to see some of your creations.





walkabout

looks very nice. you might be able to search for ways to dye bamboo on here.
Richard

4est trekker

Good looking bow!  I just finished a boo backed ipe/osage bow blank from James Parker at Huntworthy Productions (picture below).  I had him do the dye job for me, but he uses dyes from Pine Hollow Longbows.  He applies it with a mouth atomizer.  

 

 
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003sim

Here it is after I finished it. It took awhile as I got a little sidetracked.

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Eric Krewson

I use a bunch of coats of medium brown leather dye then lighten it between the nodes with a scotch bright pad. Sometimes I make the bows back almost mahogany/black, sometimes lighter.

Here is one of the lighter versions.


003sim

That looks really nice, and it was what I was shooting for also. I had it a little darker then ran a scotch pad over it also. I thought it was dried up enough, I let it sit a day, but I removed it a bit more when I applied some wax to finish it off.
 What do you use after you have it all stained up to protect it?

stickhead

I use several coats of tru oil after I stain mine

John Cooper



This is my favorite dye job to date.  I used rit dye.  Next time I might use leather dye depending on how color fast it is in the sun.

David Ricke

These are some really nice dye jobs. I have had good results also with leather dye. Good Hunting Knifemaker

stickhead

That rit dye job is cool.

Apex Predator

I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

hova

that green was awesome. was the backing functional , and heres the buildalong...
ain't got no gas in it...mmmhmmm...

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