Coloring Skates

[fieldofdreams 0]

What would be the best method for coloring the boot of a skate? I have seen White s-15's, and would like to paint my S-15's white to match. Any ideas? Besides just buying white figure skates I mean. :P

[lampliter87 8]

Easton makes retail white skates...

(Ice Hockey Equipment?)

[eric42434224 1]

Easton makes retail white skates...

(Ice Hockey Equipment?)

I dont think he wants to buy new White S15's, and I havent seen white retsil s15's.

I think he wants to color his black s15's to white.

To the OP...I have seen people color their skates, or certain parts of their skates, black....to varying success.

However, I dont think going from black to white will be very successful.

[fieldofdreams 0]

True, I understand Easton makes white SE16's. I already have S-15's which fit me great, so I'm not looking to get any new skates. I have blacked out other skates of mine, and saw the White Custome S-15's. I would love a pair, but have no way to get them, so I am looking for a way to make them white.

I had thought about masking off my skates and coating them with a few coats of white spray paint, but I'm not sure how they would come out. I would also need new holders as well, as I dyed the one's on there black already!

[interpathway 9]

Are you crazy? White boot, black holder would be realllllyyyyy good looking. Still, I don't think you should go painting them unfortunately.

[cptjeff 0]

Painting probalby won't work. Paint is fairly stiff, Easton's boots are designed to flex in certain points quite a bit for energy loading, not to mention the uppers are flexable leather or synthetic. The result will be paint chipping off, very quickly making it obvious that you spray painted your skates. You'll have all sorts of chips off with the black showing through, and lots of cracking. Not a good look.

You can darken skates, but lightening is impossible. If you want whites, you'll have to spring for the SE16.

Now, here's a thought. I know the Synergy line at least used to have real leather on the top end models, if that's the same with the Stealth, you can use leather bleach to get that part white. Won't be the complete skate, but I would think that that would be a cool look.

[HHR23 0]

painted my vapor xx's white with acrylic latex enamel. worked pretty good. I put one layer on every 3-4 hours for a total of 3 layers.

[Alan 0]

painted my vapor xx's white with acrylic latex enamel. worked pretty good. I put one layer on every 3-4 hours for a total of 3 layers.

pictures?!?

[thunderhockey48 0]

I have the White S15 skates. I bought them on ebay for $290 which was a steal. I love the S15's, they are so light and have a nice fit. They also came with lightspeed II Tuuks on them which is really nice. I hear that they have durability issues, but i have none so far; i guess ill just have to wait and see...

[HHR23 0]

painted my vapor xx's white with acrylic latex enamel. worked pretty good. I put one layer on every 3-4 hours for a total of 3 layers.

pictures?!?

I know I have some somewhere, I'll see if I can find them

[fieldofdreams 0]

Painting probalby won't work. Paint is fairly stiff, Easton's boots are designed to flex in certain points quite a bit for energy loading, not to mention the uppers are flexable leather or synthetic. The result will be paint chipping off, very quickly making it obvious that you spray painted your skates. You'll have all sorts of chips off with the black showing through, and lots of cracking. Not a good look.

You can darken skates, but lightening is impossible. If you want whites, you'll have to spring for the SE16.

Now, here's a thought. I know the Synergy line at least used to have real leather on the top end models, if that's the same with the Stealth, you can use leather bleach to get that part white. Won't be the complete skate, but I would think that that would be a cool look.

I'm not looking to do the WHOLE skate, just make what is currently black, white.

[cptjeff 0]

Painting probalby won't work. Paint is fairly stiff, Easton's boots are designed to flex in certain points quite a bit for energy loading, not to mention the uppers are flexable leather or synthetic. The result will be paint chipping off, very quickly making it obvious that you spray painted your skates. You'll have all sorts of chips off with the black showing through, and lots of cracking. Not a good look.

You can darken skates, but lightening is impossible. If you want whites, you'll have to spring for the SE16.

Now, here's a thought. I know the Synergy line at least used to have real leather on the top end models, if that's the same with the Stealth, you can use leather bleach to get that part white. Won't be the complete skate, but I would think that that would be a cool look.

I'm not looking to do the WHOLE skate, just make what is currently black, white.

Well, that's the part that would be leather. If it is leather, try searching for leather bleach (don't know if it's the same stuff as fabric bleach or not), and try it. There may be a coating on it or something.

[IniNew 53]

Painting probalby won't work. Paint is fairly stiff, Easton's boots are designed to flex in certain points quite a bit for energy loading, not to mention the uppers are flexable leather or synthetic. The result will be paint chipping off, very quickly making it obvious that you spray painted your skates. You'll have all sorts of chips off with the black showing through, and lots of cracking. Not a good look.

You can darken skates, but lightening is impossible. If you want whites, you'll have to spring for the SE16.

Now, here's a thought. I know the Synergy line at least used to have real leather on the top end models, if that's the same with the Stealth, you can use leather bleach to get that part white. Won't be the complete skate, but I would think that that would be a cool look.

I'm not looking to do the WHOLE skate, just make what is currently black, white.

Well, that's the part that would be leather. If it is leather, try searching for leather bleach (don't know if it's the same stuff as fabric bleach or not), and try it. There may be a coating on it or something.

If it is just the leather part: here

A good dye.

[dw91 0]

painted my vapor xx's white with acrylic latex enamel. worked pretty good. I put one layer on every 3-4 hours for a total of 3 layers.

pictures?!?

I know I have some somewhere, I'll see if I can find them

the whole boot?

or just the leather?

[fieldofdreams 0]

So I took the boots to a local cobbler and asked about dyeing the leather. I was told that it's not really leather, and it couldn't be dyed without it cracking, peeling and generally looking shitty. :(

On the other hand, he made a suggestion. For $50, he is going to cut white leather, and place it over the black pleather on the skate. He is going to stitch it so that it looks like it is stitched to the skate. Should look pretty nice. I will make sure he is aware that it needs to be waterproof, being that it is obviously an ice skate. I had already dyed the holder to match the boot, so if I don't like the look of white boot/black holder, I will just spraypaint the holders temporarily. I will post pics next week when it is done. I'm crossing my fingers that it comes out nice.

[fieldofdreams 0]

So here they are.... they look ok I guess. Not as bad as I thought they would turn out. For $50, it's something different.

[calishark28 0]

Can you post some pictures that are a little more clear and a close up of the side profile of the skates

[matix218 11]

They look really good man. Good work.

[interpathway 9]

You should have him stitch on the Nike Air Accel Elite graphics package. That'd be the best. But I like it regardless, lets see 'em after 2 months and heavy puck marks though!

[Hurricane22 0]

to keep them clean you could use shoe cleaner. i know thats what i did once my season ended and now my 9k's look like new :D

[dw91 0]

so is that white part stitched on? who did that for you? how?

[fieldofdreams 0]

so is that white part stitched on? who did that for you? how?

It's not stitched, it's glued to the outside of the black with a heavy duty adhesive. I had a local cobbler do it for me.

[dw91 0]

oh ok. what kind of adhesive, just something the cobbler had?