dyeing wood blanks with epoxy designs

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I need some help. I want to cut out some special designs thru my blanks and then fill these with dyed epoxy like the tutorial on the spider pens in the library, but I want to have vibrant colored dyed wood blanks. I have searched and read about using the trans-tint and Mixol dyes and putting these on after the turning is complete, and that sounds simple enough, BUT will it also color the epoxy? If my epoxy is dyed white will the Mixol or Transtint in say a bright or dark blue change the epoxy? If not then I need to dye the wood before adding the epoxy, and then I would need to make sure the dye penetrated so as not to lose the coloring when I turn. How can this be easily done by someone of modest means and little time.[?][?]

TIA

Rob
 
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rob, you might try applying the trans-tint and if it does, in fact, dye the epoxy i would assume it would be a thin layer of tint on top of it. you could then let the dye dry on the rest of the blank and come back with a q-tip with acetone on it and rub it over the epoxied design area.
 
Rob,

I have done what I think you are looking for adding names to panes using an acrylic pigment which I bought at Michaels. I mixed the epoxy as normal and then added a drop of the pigment and mixed it in. So far I have only used black but there are lots of other colours to choose from. Here is a sample.


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Nice pen and nice work Jamie. Thanks for the info about Michaels. I was planning on drilling/then cutting out designs like hearts, stars, small arrows, crosses and such completely thru the square blanks before turning, then adding the colored epoxy to fill in the cut-out area. Then turn. I was not sure if I needed to pre-dye the main blank before cutting out the shapes, or if I could dye the main blanks after turning with the epoxy in place.

Thanks
Rob
 
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