Dying AR Furniture for the Wife

[Bigphil5000]

Wow I'm impressed that is a DIY masterpiece. Looks great. Bet wifey will be pleased

 

[Jimeni1]

i just went for it. I used an 8 qt pot, and a whole 8 oz bottle of purple Rit dye. Filled the pot about 2/3 full. I used Op's process. My wife wanted it this dark. A little less dip time was a lighter purple. Pink might be the color to dye purple.

 

[bauerr3]

Tagged for future use...Pink isn't too popular with the females in my family, but this purple looks very nice and could make its way into the safe eventually!

 

[T-DOGG]

My wife wants me to build her a purple AR in the future and I found this thread and showed her the RIT dye, she liked that idea. So I bought a 12qt Stainless pot and black powdered RIT dye (they were out of liquid). Did a few pieces that were OD Green to try this stuff out and it worked great. Used about 1 minute for the soak time. Thanks for posting this by the way, it was very helpful and now I feel confident to build her rifle using this method for the furniture.


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[RobbyMaQ]

Nifty!
I've gone ahead and moved this to our gunsmithing forum as I think dying furniture would fit well there!

 

[T-DOGG]

Finally got my wife's AR pistol together and Rit dyed the grip and mags. I am very happy with the results. Can't wait to show her in the morning (she fell asleep while the Grape juice was heating up on the stove).

 

[Speedybruin4]

Finally got my wife's AR pistol together and Rit dyed the grip and mags. I am very happy with the results. Can't wait to show her in the morning (she fell asleep while the Grape juice was heating up on the stove).

That looks awesome, I am thinking about doing one for my wife in a lighter shade of green.

 

[eberres]

I am new to the whole gun thing. I am building an AR15 with an experienced gun guy. I want some color to my gun but am not sure if some colors show up better or not. I've seen (like above) you can dye your own furniture but does it have to be a dark color? If I did a light blue on some black pieces, is it going to show after the boiling process is done?

 

[vitamink]

You have to start with a light color in order for the color to soak in. Black dyed blue will just look black with maybe a hind of blue in the sunlight. I've dyed tons of nylon parts with rit as well as gun bits. Desert tan usually looks best. I'd start with that. The longer you boil it the darker it gets. Be sure to remove everything at the same time otherwise some stuff will be a darker shade of whatever.

 

[joncon]

Interesting, I didn't know you could dye plastic or nylon with Rit dye. Learn something new everyday. I'll have to try it.