Dyeing my Boots

vincenzm

vincenzm

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Hey guys,

so i Eric pollard posted this video of him dying his ski boots black https://www.instagram.com/p/CKMeD5env0u/ .

I was thinking of trying it myself since i`d love to have mine a darker colour, too. But i`m a little bit worried i might ruin the flex or the toe punches i`ve had done on them. All i could find are some tutorials on how to do it, but not really any experiences wether it ruined the boots or not.

Maybe some of yall have already tried this and can tell me how it went.

cheers
 
topic:vincenzm said:
Hey guys,

so i Eric pollard posted this video of him dying his ski boots black https://www.instagram.com/p/CKMeD5env0u/ .

I was thinking of trying it myself since i`d love to have mine a darker colour, too. But i`m a little bit worried i might ruin the flex or the toe punches i`ve had done on them. All i could find are some tutorials on how to do it, but not really any experiences wether it ruined the boots or not.

Maybe some of yall have already tried this and can tell me how it went.

cheers
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Yeah the water isn’t hot enough to fuck with the plastic. Just boil a shit ton of water, put your boots in a plastic tub, add the dye, add the water, let them sit for a few hours then rinse them. Easy peasy
 
Showing my age here but, the rit dye trick is ancient.

I dyed my rollerblades green 15 years ago.

Like the video shows, boil up a bunch of water to cover your shells in a plastic box/metal pot. Dump in a bunch of rit dye and then leave it overnight and rinse off the excess. Plastic with a texture takes the dye better than smooth plastic. Greys and white plastics take the dye better and doing one colour over the other kind of works like mixing paint (I.e. Blue on yellow makes a green) but be prepared to accept whatever colour you get as there's no going back.
 
Very tempted to try this. Yellow fulltilts have been the death of my fits for years now. Guessing if its not as dark as I want it the first time I would just do the process over again? I also assume going from a lighter to a darker color should always work fine, just some lighter colors like white may take less dye than something like yellow.
 
14358608:PrunedLankly said:
I dyed mine and everything is chills. Nothing wrong w the flex. I don’t have any punches tho so I can’t touch on that.

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damn those look sick! now i want to try this even more haha

can you tell me which colours/ how many bottles of the dye you used for this?
 
thank you guys for your help, sounds like me and my boots will be okay haha

i think i'll do it then!
 
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Boiling water right now. Will give an update in the morning I guess. Hopefully I dont end up with puke green boots
 
14358895:CatdickBojangles said:
I’m thinking about doing this to my FC10s since they are white it should take pretty well.
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yeah uhh so far my shits lookin pretty brown? may have to hit em with a second round after this. Used 3 bottles of dye more btw
 
14358873:vincenzm said:
damn those look sick! now i want to try this even more haha

can you tell me which colours/ how many bottles of the dye you used for this?
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Graphite Rit Dyemore. I used like 2 bottles bc the og boots are lime green. Also, the smaller the container you soak them in, the more efficient the dye is
 
14358914:PrunedLankly said:
Graphite Rit Dyemore. I used like 2 bottles bc the og boots are lime green. Also, the smaller the container you soak them in, the more efficient the dye is
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how long did you leave em in?
 
Really thinking about doing this to my head raptors with black. They have neon painted metal buckles that are non removable. Anyone know if the dye will soak into the buckles or if they will stay neon?
 
14358923:PrunedLankly said:
~2 hrs but the cooler the water gets, the less the dye sets in - I did mine over the summer so the heat kept it warmer longer
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Yeah I've got mine in a bin suspended in an empty sink. Seems to be holding heat pretty well. I'll leave overnight just to get the most out of it.
 
14358951:mrk127 said:
Really thinking about doing this to my head raptors with black. They have neon painted metal buckles that are non removable. Anyone know if the dye will soak into the buckles or if they will stay neon?
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I dyed my raptors, the white parts of the buckles took on color but the yellow didn’t. Also my punches shrunk a little bit.

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14359008:OldStoke said:
... no chemist, but I can't see it happening..
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yea idk shit about fuck either but I feel like it could dye the buckles if they are painted with acrylic. Rit dye more says it dyes acrylic. Really don't know what type of paint is on the buckles tho

Edit: Didn't see [tag=119683]@TheWeaz[/tag] post before replying. Those blue raptors look great btw and thanks for the info

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That was right after I took them out of the water, they have lightened significantly since then after sitting in my garage all summer. I had white parts on my buckles, depending on year I think some have all yellow buckles.

Dont think it made them any softer but that boot is borderline too stiff for me anyway.
 
14359028:TheWeaz said:
That was right after I took them out of the water, they have lightened significantly since then after sitting in my garage all summer. I had white parts on my buckles, depending on year I think some have all yellow buckles.

Dont think it made them any softer but that boot is borderline too stiff for me anyway.
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That is such a baller boot you got, I like the pin conversion and WTR soles. Did you get that done by CAST?

Seeing that pic definitely inspired me to do my boots. Thinking I’m gonna take my boots apart and do black on the bottom and dark purple on the top cuff. Thinking darker colors will do better against fading
 
14359056:mrk127 said:
That is such a baller boot you got, I like the pin conversion and WTR soles. Did you get that done by CAST?

Seeing that pic definitely inspired me to do my boots. Thinking I’m gonna take my boots apart and do black on the bottom and dark purple on the top cuff. Thinking darker colors will do better against fading
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Cast did the tech toes and added replaceable gripwalk soles. No surprise but the boot doesn’t walk well, still useful on rare occasions though.
 
Like beige and blue couldn’t get dyed to pig pink or somethng like that bright

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14528548:brocolisprout said:
Like beige and blue couldn’t get dyed to pig pink or somethng like that bright

**This post was edited on Apr 11th 2023 at 7:57:52pm
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Try it out, if it looks bad or doesn’t take… then just dye em black ?‍♀️
 
14528839:brocolisprout said:
Worst case I dye 2 times I’ll try soon if my parents let me ??
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It’s basically like dyeing Easter eggs but on your feet. Just do it outside so u don’t make a mess
 
14528911:KilaTsunami said:
It’s basically like dyeing Easter eggs but on your feet. Just do it outside so u don’t make a mess
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Do I have to use dye more or can I use the powder dye ? Or a combination of both
 
Also how do I remove that little rubber flap/wing thing right after the tongue to prevent air

14529091:brocolisprout said:
Do I have to use dye more or can I use the powder dye ? Or a combination of both
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14528547:brocolisprout said:
What’s the rule in terms of what Colors I can use on boots? Like a darker color than boots right?
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Pretty much go darker than your existing color. Going from a light pink and using black gave me a really dark purple. Going from white obviously will yield the cleanest color but if your boots have color go darker. It’s kinda fun to just toss em in and see what you get, makes for very unique colors imo
 
Pretty cool ideas. I have red boots so they aren’t going to mix well with many colors. Would pretty much end up with a dark boot.
 
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