G-10 Dragonfly in BLACK

[Jay_Ev]

I can't take it anymore with the foliage green G-10 so I took it upon myself to change things up a little:

[tomoto]

i have never loved black more looks beautiful!

[The Deacon]

Custom scales, or RIT?

[Jay_Ev]

Originally Posted by The Deacon

Custom scales, or RIT?

It's RIT dye. And now that I've seen how it turns out, I'm tempted to buy a Rock Lobster and dye it black as well

[CanisMajor]

That looks good, well done.

Canis

[STi]

I been thinking of doing the same thing..Too many foliage green knives.

[spyderHS08]

Looks great man! How will that wear? I could go for a black g10 D4!!

[bh49]

I am wondering how well RIT will wear.

[anson argyris]

Originally Posted by STi

Too many foliage green knives.

... and a lot more of black knives.
Nobody else but Spyderco uses foliage green G-10, so it's a sort of a trademark.

[Firebat]

Nice! Any process notes you can share? How did you prepare dye, how long left in, etc. ?

[Jay_Ev]

Originally Posted by STi

Too many foliage green knives.

+1. Agreed.

Originally Posted by spyderHS08

Looks great man! How will that wear? I could go for a black g10 D4!!

Thank you! I'm hoping the dye was well absorbed into the G-10, instead of just on the surface like with FRN. And just like you, I'm seriously thinking of doing this to my G-10 Delica 4.

Originally Posted by Firebat

Nice! Any process notes you can share? How did you prepare dye, how long left in, etc. ?

It was black Rit dye, in liquid form (came in a little bottle), did it in a pot on the stove, the water was not boiling, but kept at a temperature of approx. 170-180 degrees F. (kept measuring with a temperature gun). Probably left the scales in for about 10 minutes or so. Yes, I wanted them deep, dark and black. They are impossible to see once you drop them in, so to check on them I had to keep pulling them out. Once they were done, I pulled them out, rinsed them off, dried them off thoroughly with a hair drier, then re-assembled.

Hope this helps

[The Deacon]

It will be interesting to see how the dye holds up. At least some of the folks who have done it to FRN seem to be reporting that it has held up well for them. Don't think G-10 would be any more porous than FRN, but it might have less natural lubricity. Generally speaking, nylon is one of the worst plastics to paint.

[SoCal Operator]

That looks great. The G-10 D'fly is getting more and more tempting.

[amen74]

Great job Jay! I'll be waiting for the results of that Rock Lobster.

[Mako109]

Very nice job and thanks for being the first to attempt dyeing folilage green G-10 and reporting the results. Interested in a long term use report to learn how well the black RIT holds up.

[David Lowry]

That looks great. Do keep us up to date on how it wears. Might be a cheap alternative to having scales made in the future.

[SamMaxRay]

Classy!

[VashHash]

A tip for the scales take a hanger and bend it through the screw holes carefully of course so you can just dip them and swirl then around them check them periodically thats how i did my spyderhawks but i submerged the wholes knives RIT does contain SALT so be aware if you fully submerge non h-1 knives RINSE AND OIL THEM WELL

[VashHash]

and a side note if you scratch it the original color will come back

[Jay_Ev]

Originally Posted by Mako109

Very nice job and thanks for being the first to attempt dyeing folilage green G-10 and reporting the results.

I've been meaning to do this for quite some time, just was waiting for the D'fly to come out. Didn't want to try it on any of my more expensive foliage green G-10 knives in case it didn't turn out well. But before I go nuts and start dyeing every FG knife I have, I'm gonna listen to others and see how it wears over a period of several months first.