What to do when the weathers too bad to play - Dye Discs

When the weather turns too bad to play and you want to indulge in something else connected with Disc Golf, that doesn't involve videos on tournaments and play, what else do you do? You watch videos on dyeing discs 😀!! 

This will be a short blog on words and more on photos of the outcome of my dyeing attempts. We don't have a lot of room living in an apartment, so I didn't want to get into disc dying with a turntable or stencils so limited myself to direct dying using a variety of lotions and potions. 

I first started by buying some iDye Poly sachets in a variety of colours. Orange, Red, Blue, Green, Violet.

For my first attempt I used my Latitude 64 Jade with the orange dye suspended and swirled in shampoo. The one thing I've learned about shampoo is your disc will continue to smell of the shampoo you use for sometime afterwards so make sure you choose a scent you like 😀.

I then bought some white Latitude 64 discs in their premium plastic. Next up, after watching someone use Elmers Glue I tried this technique. I went over the disc with glue side to side, to mask as much white on the disc as I didn't want to dye. Let it dry and then floated it in a water/dye solution of yellow for a couple of hours. The yellow only came out pale but if I'd left it any longer the glue would have started to dissolve. Washed everything off. I then re-glued to cover white and yellow and floated again in a red/water solution. This was the outcome after washing everything off. Of all the discs I've done this is still probably my favourite so far. This was a Latitude 64 Sapphire.

I then did another shampoo float with my River disc which was originally an opaque white and I wanted to give it a bit of blue for a water kind of look. The concept was good but the outcome was not what I had in my minds eye. I still like it though.

I then ventured into using the iDye Poly in shaving foam and these discs ended up being a bit of a disaster, Latitude 64 Diamond, I really don't like the mess I made but I still throw them.

When you're experimenting with dying discs it could get expensive if you make mistakes so I decided to change to using Latitude 64 minis. They are still made in premium plastic so take dye well and if you don't like the outcome then they are not that expensive.

This is my favourite of the minis I've done and topical for Halloween right now.

I've tried putting dye into body lotion to make a thicker dye that wouldn't run off and used a small bottle I bought on Amazon to apply direct to discs rather than using foam or shampoo. The nozzles are very fine and so you can pin point the dye. 

This is what I came up with...

I've recently bought a different dye, Rit Synthetic which comes in more colours and from all accounts gives a stronger colour on the plastics. 

My latest attempt has been on a new UK produced disc, the Launch Cipher which started off like this...

and ended up like this after using Rit Synthetic in shaving foam

Now its quite obvious I'm not going to win disc dyeing artist of the year but I have enjoyed the creativity and fun in doing these discs. I still have a few minis to mess about with and I'm sure will have more enjoyment dyeing them.

But now I must move on to the next instalment of my disc golf journey, post right ankle injury, and take you on our next trip, that we had planned. Instead of heading South of where we live we decided that we should go North, to a place we have visited and toured around many times and love for its beautiful countryside, Scotland.