Quilt top dying strategies

[Megatron]

Found this link today, which is a cool tutorial on getting a vibrant pink with Keda dyes.

 

[docteurseb]

Found this link today, which is a cool tutorial on getting a vibrant pink with Keda dyes.

Just don't assume you will be able to replicate that easily with his liquid dyes.
I tried that specific color/video years ago using the liquid dyes, unsuccessfully.

 

[Megatron]

Just don't assume you will be able to replicate that easily with his liquid dyes.
I tried that specific color/video years ago using the liquid dyes, unsuccessfully.

I’ve been playing with the Keda dyes (and using very irreproducible mixing strategies), and I was pretty satisfied with my first attempt in terms of the vibrance of the pink. Here, I dyed the bottom 3/4 blue and then added the red dye (which appears pink when not too concentrated) over the entire piece.



I'll post the rest of my finishing progress in this build thread:

Finishing a quilt tele body

Starting my third build! This time, I wanted a nitrocellulose gloss finish on the body, so I decided to finish the body myself. Parts: One piece rosewood neck from Warmoth (from my previous tele build) PGK Tele body with 1 piece African mahogany body and high grade bookmatched quilt maple top...

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