Fiebings Green Dye

[Corvus]

I've found that where I have used Fiebings green dye on a couple of projects the colour has faded out really badly in use, seems to be exposure to light that does it but not excessive exposure. I've finished off with Resolene.

Has anyone got any answers to this problem? Are there any green dyes that are more stable, can I finish with anything to prevent this etc.

Any thoughts very much appreciated.

[Leerwerker]

the Eco-Flo color charts I made 30 months ago still have the green qquite vibrant - I will try to remember to take pics tomorrow and show you a "then" and "now" photograph. But even so, eventually all the non brown pigments will fade faster than the rest ...

[TimKleffner]

HI Corvus

I have used Fiebings dyes for years now and have also had the same problems. Green is terrible about the sun fading. There must be something in the pigments that washes out.

You may want to go to Fiebings web site and send them a e mail. I don't use Green that much. The fading is one of the reasons. Blues and blacks yellows also seem to wash as lacquer is applied to it.

Good luck Happy Tooling

Tim

[Corvus]

the Eco-Flo color charts I made 30 months ago still have the green qquite vibrant - I will try to remember to take pics tomorrow and show you a "then" and "now" photograph. But even so, eventually all the non brown pigments will fade faster than the rest ...

Thanks for your reply, I will get some of the Eco-Flo and give it a try. I'm wondering about trying some of the general fabric dyes that are around too as some (such as silk paints) say they are light fast. Obviously that can only be up to a point but worth trying.

HI Corvus

I have used Fiebings dyes for years now and have also had the same problems. Green is terrible about the sun fading. There must be something in the pigments that washes out.

You may want to go to Fiebings web site and send them a e mail. I don't use Green that much. The fading is one of the reasons. Blues and blacks yellows also seem to wash as lacquer is applied to it.

Good luck Happy Tooling

Tim

Hi Tim, Emailing Fiebings is a good idea! When you say that they 'wash' as lacquer is applied do you mean wash out? Thanks for your input.

[steveh]

I did some lettering on the fenders some trophy awards saddles several years ago, the padded seats where green suede, and they wanted the lettering to match. so I purchased "feibings proffesional oil dye", in green, they did make it, dont know if they still do. I ended up mixing a little black to make it a hunter green to match the seats. It has held up fine, there is a big difference between the oil dyes and latex and water based dyes. I would only trust trust the oils based dyes.

[TimKleffner]

Hi Corvus

Yes , when you use lacquer on certain colors it runs all over and you lose color. I was talking with Chan Geer the other night about this he suggest using Bee Natural RTC. This water base product does not make it 'run at all'. As for the fading, we didn't talk about that, he doesn't use much of the other colors ...only black.

Hope this helps

Tim

[Ian]

I did a seat that had a carved and airbrushed leperchaun on it. I finished the seat last year - saw the bike a couple of weeks ago, and the green is not just faded, it's completely gone. The whole leperchaun is just natural leather color now. I meant to take a picture of it to ask the same question. Also Fiebings.

[Corvus]

Thank you very much for your input guys. I've done some research and emailed Fiebings who say that I won't have fading problems with the Pro Oil dyes so I have some ordered and look forward to them arriving.