Dyeing Quilted Maple How-To

[ponticat]

By popular demand (well, a few people asked) here's a description of my method of dyeing a quilted maple top. This process is actually very simple, effective and the result is pretty spectacular.

The dye I used is W.D. Lockwood Water Soluble Concentrated “Peacock Blue.”

I ordered it from this company: Tools For Working Wood

Here's their page for this family of dyes:
W. D. Lockwood Water Based Concentrated Dye Family at Tools For Working Wood

Here's their page describing using Lockwood dyes:
How to Use W. D. Lockwood Dyes at Tools For Working Wood

The dye comes in one-ounce packages. You can cover a lot of territory with one ounce. I divided the powder into 1/4-ounce lots by spreading the powder on a sheet of glass and dividing it visually with a credit card. I highly recommend wearing a dust mask if you divide it like I did. The powder is extremely fluffy and very easily blown around and inhaled. Guess how I learned that lesson. The initial solution I used was 1/4-ounce dye in 8-ounces of water. As you'll see in the last photo I re-did the dyeing with an 1/8-ounce dye in 8-ounces of water solution.

Let's move onto the visuals, shall we?

Here's a link to a full description of the bass:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/jazzmaster-bass-version-2-0-a-809342/#post11519097

 

[praisegig]

Looks awesome, thanks for the tutorial.

 

[MarkL]

All the pictures show up as X's :-(

Same as your Jazzmaster thread. A few others seem to be having the same problem. Any idea what we have configured wrong in our browsers?

Wish I could see this I'd love to stain the bass I'm working up to building now...

 

[Rip Topaz]

All the pictures show up as X's :-(

Same as your Jazzmaster thread. A few others seem to be having the same problem. Any idea what we have configured wrong in our browsers?

Wish I could see this I'd love to stain the bass I'm working up to building now...

Same here. It looks like the image is inverted.

 

[pilotjones]

Thanks for the tutorial. I missed the squid, too.

Same here. It looks like the image is inverted.

Yeah, the images are inverted for me too in both desktop and mobile Safari, but are fine in Firefox.

 

[mikeyswood]

Goodly done, sir!

 

[Stealth]

Thanks for the tutorial and the squid. Very easy to follow.

 

[rythman6969]

Very cool. I was looking for this exact type of thread. I just got some pink water soluble dye in the mail yesterday.
I'm making my 5 yaer old daughter a pink heart shaped bass. Thanks. Nice to see it done.

 

[rythman6969]

Thanks for the tutorial. And when you use pink water soluble dye on curly

maple you get something like this...

a little blurry and one of the body looks a little orange in the pic but you get the idea.

 

[mikeyswood]

Hmmm.

The beer pics are great, but there is no pic of your hair. Therefore you cannot be making a bass.

 

[rythman6969]

hold on.........

 

[rythman6969]

I'm the one closer to the camera.



Now come on.......that's a hair shot.

 

[xmaddogx]

I'm the one closer to the camera.



Now come on.......that's a hair shot.

Wow! Michael Manring makes basses...

 

[mikeyswood]

Wow! Michael Manring makes basses...

Comment Win!

 

[rythman6969]

sure, I got the hair, now if I could just play like that.

 

[Down & Outman]

That pic reminds me when my little bugger was young, and I had hair, LOL. He's in his 30's now, and you can guess where my hair went. Cute pic. Nicely done bass. I was wondering how to pull that off on the bass I'm building. Thanks for posting it.

 

[rythman6969]

Thanks. BTW . Anyone who hasn't had that beer, it's an all time favorite of mine. If you like hops, Sierras are hard to beat.

 

[mikeyswood]

If you like hops, Sierras are hard to beat.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're going to blow your credibility on THAT statement?!

Even their Torpedo is only a blip on the radar of hoppiness. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous is where it's currently at; with two turn tables and a microphone.

 

[rythman6969]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're going to blow your credibility on THAT statement?!

Even their Torpedo is only a blip on the radar of hoppiness. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous is where it's currently at; with two turn tables and a microphone.

uh oh, i gotta check that out.

 

[Dean N]

Am I the only one having trouble seeing the pics? Help! I want to see this!

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're going to blow your credibility on THAT statement?!

Even their Torpedo is only a blip on the radar of hoppiness. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous is where it's currently at; with two turn tables and a microphone.

Or...

Green Flash West Coast IPA (or Hophead Red for better balance) FTW. FT big delicious W.