Dying Phenolic

Raildriver

Raildriver

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Has anyone had any success dying the phenolic crap that Atlas was selling a few years back. It looked great before you turned it (coco-brown), and after you turned it the material was more like taupe; maybe fifteen shades lighter from where you started. I'm trying to match some older ring-work from a cue out of the early 90's which had the coco-colored phenolic. I still have a bunch of the old crap Atlas was selling.
 
Raildriver said:
Has anyone had any success dying the phenolic crap that Atlas was selling a few years back. It looked great before you turned it (coco-brown), and after you turned it the material was more like taupe; maybe fifteen shades lighter from where you started. I'm trying to match some older ring-work from a cue out of the early 90's which had the coco-colored phenolic. I still have a bunch of the old crap Atlas was selling.
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I've used water base stain with good results...JER
 
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I like (ups) ultra penetrating dye stain ,you might get a paint or hardware store to order it for you.It comes from Mohawk finishing products..Hope that helps... Ray:thumbup:
 
I've found that burnishing it with leather usually brings the color back.

just more hot air!

Sherm
 
Color Change with Time..

I'm not sure if this is my place to say,but,
the Natural Linen Fiber needs time to get the darker color back after machining the outer exposed surface.
I don't know if it's ultavoilet light or just aging.
This photo shows a Southwest Cap I made that was Tan Color after Machining it to final size. After about 6 months, it looked like this..
Maybe this is what you were going thur??
Alton
 

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CueCaps said:
I'm not sure if this is my place to say,but,
the Natural Linen Fiber needs time to get the darker color back after machining the outer exposed surface.
I don't know if it's ultavoilet light or just aging.
This photo shows a Southwest Cap I made that was Tan Color after Machining it to final size. After about 6 months, it looked like this..
Maybe this is what you were going thur??
Alton
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time is the only way i know. i talked to a well known maker about this at legnth and he tried everything without great results
 
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