The most knowledgeable people who frequent this thread are Biz, H3TT, Olick, Montana, and myself. I'm not saying we know the most (except for biz) but we know more than most and are in here all the time.
I have a question.. I have seen many times that writers use shoe dye... Like Griffin.. so my questions are: Is/was Griffin shoe/leather dye the same as other shoe/leather dyes? What are good additives (Meth blue??) ?.. I don`t really have any money now(I`m a student) and so I don`t want to waste any money..(I can`t rack because I have some court shit coming up) cheers
^not sure and does anyone know why silver and other metallic colors cover everythign else, and when you go over them your shit beads up?
yea but even if they were liek metal, then why woudl a marker taht could normlly write on metal not be able to cover over the metalllic, i havta reaserch thsi shit
Okay , If your talking about what I think you are talking about then it should go like this. The reason some paint beads up over metallics is that the metallics are usually oil based and the paint your spray over the metallic paint, isn't oil based and there fore cannot adhere. Some companies get by this with Bitumen Based e.g. Molotow Coversall.
Im not saying all , but yes , some companies do use different bases example Molotow have a silver in their normal Belton range ( I think the pigments in this are acrylic and is Nitro Alkyd based ). If I spray over that silver with another belton it wont bead. Molotow also make Silver Burner , now this is oil/bitumen based. If I spray over this silver with a belton it would bead as each of their bases is different. That why molotow made coversall as its the only suitbale base to cover silver. Hope I made that a bit clearer.
Hitting up michaels tomorrow, is there anything i can get to improve my ink. I know its prob been said but i dont wanna go thru the thread. Im probably going to try to find some pearl ex or something but is there anything else?
Not always. Because if you want the stain to be stronger all you have to do is put some in there after its dried out then let it sit for like a day or two once it is fully dissolved then you can add a bit more and wait for that to dissolve. Adding water is just taking away from the staining power. So if the dried out form in there then it won't take anymore then don't put anymore in. But with the water you might be able to add a bit more but it isn't going to change much.
mb already has water in it. its meant to be put into water so its not like you're killing it. adding a bit of water would improve it's dissolving rate and if you're boiling the mb to evaporate the water, i suggest you evaporate about 85% of the water and just add the ink and boil it together so it fully mixes and it'll evaporate excess water. if you're not sure about it, let some salt sit in a cup of room temperature water, and let some salt sit in boiled water. you'll see that the one in boiled water dissolves faster.
pretty sure if you look back maybe 100 pages i posted a pic of meth blue dissolved in alcohol, then it dissolved in water. in fact ill find it to show you. View attachment 430597
im thinkin on making an acetone based inks...ne recipes or additives out there for an acetone outdoor ink...