How To: Dye Your Holders

[kovalchuk71 212]

Nope, you dont need to keep the water boiling.

[RadioGaGa 162]

what would you use to make a striping style like ovechkin tried with a sharpie.

what i mean is what kind of tape will hold to stay so you can make it two colors or maybe three.

also where is that ovechkin iihf skate thread??

Depends how you wanted them to look. If you wanted Blue/White/Red

Start with white holders and dip them into red as deep as you want the red to go....then take them out, and flip them over and dip into Blue...making sure you leave the middle "blank". You could also put painters tape on them if to guarantee a nice clean/straight line. Look up videos by LAX players. They do some crazy designs and stuff...the process would be the same.

[Rustpot 1]

what would you use to make a striping style like ovechkin tried with a sharpie.

what i mean is what kind of tape will hold to stay so you can make it two colors or maybe three.

also where is that ovechkin iihf skate thread??

Suspend them in the water. It might take some ingenuity to get them to hang right, but you'd just hang the top in red, flip and do blue, leaving a white stripe in the center.

If doing other colors... do light colors in the center and first, then darker colors to the outside. Don't know how colors would mix in the dying process though.

A shallow pan or a platform in the water might work as well.

[RadioGaGa 162]

Another thing to remember is the long it is in the dye, the dark the color will be....so if you wanted to do fades or color transitions, you have some control of the depth of the color...but you may want to play around with some scrap plastic first.

Some "Advanced" techniques explained better than I probably can: http://www.e-lacrosse.com/stech71.html

[Monty22 832]

Do you work at TotalHockey?

Nah, I work with DarkStar50, but he's not the guy I was referring to.

Just another question for everyone.... would you be able to re-dye the holders a SECOND time, or would that have an adverse effect?

I know, I was kidding.

[english15x 3]

So does the water have to stay hot for the dye to work well? Or can I just bring it to a boil stir in the dye and let them just soak. Just wanted to know if I needed to worry about water temperature.

the water I used stayed steaming hot for quite some time in the bucket.

Also, I used this .. http://e-lacrosse.com/stech9.html

and i adapted it with pictures so us hockey players could have a better guide.

[5HoleMadman 6]

Thanks for all the help. You're step-by-step instructions are very clear. I can't wait to dye mine. I'll post up a picture when I get them done. Thanks again.

[idan711 0]

"what would you use to make a striping style like ovechkin tried with a sharpie.

what i mean is what kind of tape will hold to stay so you can make it two colors or maybe three."

In order to do that, you could do what they do with lacrosse sticks and die the lighter of the two color first, and then use hot glue to cover up the areas that you want to stay that color, and then put it back in the darker die. You could probably even do patterns like this if you wanted to.

[gatorade09 0]

"what would you use to make a striping style like ovechkin tried with a sharpie.

what i mean is what kind of tape will hold to stay so you can make it two colors or maybe three."

In order to do that, you could do what they do with lacrosse sticks and die the lighter of the two color first, and then use hot glue to cover up the areas that you want to stay that color, and then put it back in the darker die. You could probably even do patterns like this if you wanted to.

thanx

i looked at http://e-lacrosse.com/stech9.html and they said if you heat up electrical tape on the plastic it will hold better when it gets dipped into the water

idk if i want a design like that lax stick head had on my skates

it only looks good for lax

[idan711 0]

yeah, i probably wouldn't want that on my skates either. Hell, I don't even want my lacrosse stick to look like that..

[Goalieboy#1 1]

My Skates

[CheesePlz 0]

it cost too much to get my lhs to take out the holders... so im just gonna tape up my skates and bag 'em. seems like it would be fine?

[Goalieboy#1 1]

I took mine to hockeygiant and was expecting to pay 20$ or so... When i went to pick them up, the guy said there would be no charge. I was amazed, and pretty happy that i just saved 20$. :D

[WhiskeyTango19 0]

I just dyed an old pair of LS2's that I had lying around. I wanted to try something funky, maybe to go along the lines of my team's Whalers jerseys. This is how they came out:

[WhiskeyTango19 0]

it cost too much to get my lhs to take out the holders... so im just gonna tape up my skates and bag 'em. seems like it would be fine?

I wouldn't try that. Seems like the dye coupled with the steaming water could play tricks on the materials or the glues. How much is your LHS charging you to remove the holders and re-install them?

[Fletch 219]

The Wife wants to know if the spaghetti pot will be permanently be damaged by the RIT dye.....anyone know?

[Sotho 0]

The Wife wants to know if the spaghetti pot will be permanently be damaged by the RIT dye.....anyone know?

You'd have to clean the spaghetti pot exceptionally well to use it again for food, so if you want to keep your wife happy use a bucket to dye your holders in or use a turkey aluminum pan and do it outside. ;) Stains on the kitchen counter don't go over well.... :(

[RadioGaGa 162]

Whiskey...You mounting those, or were they just to test the process. I'd be interested to see those all mounted up.

[WhiskeyTango19 0]

Whiskey...You mounting those, or were they just to test the process. I'd be interested to see those all mounted up.

They were just to test, but I am in the process of dying the holder from my S15's. I can do a quick mock-up of the holders on the S15 boots and post it up before I remount my Easton holders.

[CheesePlz 0]

dyed these without taking the holders off. I tried taping them with duct tape and then a bag over them and taping it again.. but the dye went right through the bottom of the boot. When i took the skates off, the boot was filled with dye.. but so far no visible damages. I couldnt afford to take off the holders btw.

here they are (Dark blue):

[chadangle 0]

those look sick man.. the holders really go well with the skate.

[WhiskeyTango19 0]

English15x, Goalieboy1:

Did your holders come out BLACK? I used the liquid RIT dye (#15) to dye my holders. First time, I left them in about 10 minutes. They looked black under my kitchen lighting, but when I took them to work, and held them up to my boots, they were navy. I tried it again, and left it in a half hour and they came out a deep violet purple.

I'm trying it again, except this time I am mixing a couple packets of brown powder in with the black, to try and darken the mixture. I hope this works, or I am buying new holders. S15s with purple holders would not look so hot. :(

It's odd. The green ones I did came out pretty sweet.

[A2rhino 62]

Am I color blind or do your skates have a poco dot tint to them??

[Fletch 219]

Is it better to use liquid dye or powder dye?

[WhiskeyTango19 0]

Whiskey...You mounting those, or were they just to test the process. I'd be interested to see those all mounted up.

Here's the green mocked up on my S15's:

I finally got my holders as black as I wanted, and mounted them back on:

They look pretty sweet I think. I'm trying to decide whether to keep them black, or get a royal blue set. Opinions?