This is my first attempt at dying a disc after doing some tests. I wasn't going to do anything like Dr. Dye but then Bruce inspired me by suggesting I do an american flag as if the flag were circular, whatever my interpretation of that may be. So here it is. This will probably be the only disc I ever dye in a Dr Dye like way. I have some ideas to take the dying in a different direction. We'll see if I can actually do it.
I don't think this is an exact rip-off of anything Jo-Jo has done but I did do some cool blocking like he does.
The disc was used. The one above was the first of my dye experiments that Jon was willing to admit was "something." I did this one below last night:
This was my "black arm band" putter I made to use at the first Gale Vaughn Memorial. The black arm band was done in sharpy. Underneath the stripes, if you look closely, you'll also see some blocking experiments when I was looking for a good blocking medium.
Looks like Dr. Dye might have some competition :D
Looks better than my 1st set of dyed discs!!! <_<
You'll get the hang of it the more you do, they look great!!! :D
that sharpie one is a cool design, looks like a big cat print.
;) Nice job! Keep up the good work. You'll only inspire JoJo to do more! Competition can be a good thing!
The only sharpie on that orange and black one above was the big fat stripe. Since it would not come out but was wearing thin, I dyed over it while also doing the Tiger stripes.
I had lunch with one of the guys who invented dying today. Jaybird gets all the credit but he was working with another guy who really had no artistic talent and no interest in pursuing the thing once they figured out some good techniques. Anyway, this guy let me in on his secret for getting dye to set good, especially on Z plastic. I doubt that this is J-Bird's current secret, but it made the black go really black on this Z-Hypmotizer.
If you spin that hypmotizer right under someones nose and talk low and slow you can get them to do pretty much anything. Kelsey right now is taking out the garbage and Diana is baking a lasagna. I'm going to take it to work tomorrow and get a bonus.
Tomorrow I'll post tonight's disc, a snowflake, that I drew using my new invention, the Symetricalizer. I used the symetricalizer to get good spiral center lines on the Hypmotizer but then did the arms freestyle. For the snowflake I'm using the symetricalizer all the way through the process.
Heh, 'symetricalizer.' Sounds like something Strong Bad would say.
Hahahahahahaha
If Jimmy Carter were King: the Great Symmetricalizer!
Strong Bad? Never mind. I'll look it up.
Nice disc, Bruce!
Sorry for the thread drift, but ???
Here is the UrbanDictionary.com listing for Strong Bad:
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strong bad
"Stirawng Bahd"
Strong Bad, a psychotic little man with a wrestling mask for a head and boxing gloves for hands, and a Blue Gem implanted in his forhead for taking caps off things, answers emails and beats up his friends.
Homestar: Here is the $510 for not beating me up this month, Strong Bad.
Recommend for deletion
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Strong Bad RULES! You lazy CRAP for CRAP! But how do you type with boxing gloves on?
Thread correction! Using the technique my friend hinted about at lunch, I managed to produce this blue snowflake pattern in about half the time. If you saw this post earlier, you'll notice I got a better scan this time. Love this concept. I'm devising ways to get the plastic for more.
that's really really nice bruce!
That looks awesome, great job!
Yup, that about sums it up.
My personal favorite word that Strong Bad created is 'Burninator'
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html (http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html)
WOW!!! Great job Bruce!!! :D
Maybe we will have to get together and discuss some secrets ;) !!!
They really do look nice, but you cant get better than me, or else you will dye all your discs, instead of me(and Jbird or course). :lol:
Check out the next disc about to be listed to ebay...
http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album01/D_Z_WC_cool (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album01/D_Z_WC_cool)
Top and bottom, kinda looks like stain glass or a cool floor in a really nice city building or something.
QuoteCheck out the next disc about to be listed to ebay...
That's the best Dr. Dye rip-off I've seen. Almost like the way Shakespeare used to steal from himself! :D
Jo-Jo, check your e-mail and messages. I sent you something somewhere, wherever it goes when you use this website to send e-mail.
joe, that is dizzyingly gorgeous!
what type and weight?
Bruce>> Very nice!
JoJo>> I think I am going to faint....
Strong Bad fans >> Strong Bad for prez!!! My fav though is acctually Pom Pom. BTW have you found the link in one of the emails to take you to Strong Bad's personal web site?? Good stuff there folks!
I want to do the labyrinth at Chartres next on a yellow CE 4X JK Valk. This is the first good piece of merch I'll be dying. Everything else was used plastic or junk merch.
I really want to do another snowflake but a yellow snowflake is kind of sick and it will have me humming that Frank Zappa tune whenever I see it.
But, a double blossom sunflower or black-eyed susan would work on yellow. Hmmmm... The muse has arrived.
billy the mountain?
;)
Quotebilly the mountain?
;)
Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Orchestra
O.k., if some of these patterns are a little effeminate, remember that I'm practicing on the junior girls' discs1 I did this one for Sarah Scrivner:
The horizontal lines are scanner shadows. There was a little bleed in the lower right area on that one.
This next one is for Alyssa. I was trying for something that would look like spiraled tiger stripes and instead it came out looking like the layered petals of a rose. The coloring on this one is subtler than many of the others but not as subtle as the scan makes it appear:
O.k., this one might be an exact rip off of something Jo-Jo did. I did not have a computer available when I laid out this pattern to see if his was like this but I think he did something pretty much like this. In my defense, "perfect" spirals are easy to make with the Symetricalizer, so this is not so much of a rip-off as it is the by product of the design tool I'm using. In real life, the checks are nice and crisp. The smudginess around the edges in this picture is shadows
You really have to see that checkered disc to appreciate it. It is a Four Time Champion JK Valk with virtually no dome. I don't know Innova so I don't know whether that's good or bad! :lol: If I can make a better scan, I'll edit the post.
nice stuff bruce!
I took some time working with the Labyrinth at Chartres on Wednesday night and Thursday but could not reproduce it as disc art. I'm corresponding with a labryrinth designer and maybe he'll send me a better pattern in exchange for advertising space on the under rim. Type labyrinth and Chartres in a search engine and you can find what I'm talking about.
I'm also looking for some of those medieval knot patterns. If you know what I mean and can shoot me a website, I'd appreciate it. The knot patterns are kind of like the braiding around the sunflower on Sarah's disc only more complex.
Nice work, Bruce.
Here's some (http://www.wallace.net/knots/samples/) of those knots you were asking about. Just went to google and typed in Celtic Knots to find this site.
I found a website with a Celtic Knot design tutorial that was written to be so complicated as to cause you to pay $60 for a computer font that would automatically generate knots. Seeing grids side by side with the knots the grids generate kind of made it all come together. I'm going to play around with a 6X6 spiral and see how it looks. Thanks.
This is my first Celtic knot on a disc. The disc is a Crush. It bled a little around the 1.8 and PDGA stamps. It was way too much work and did not come out as well as I would want. I used a spiral pattern in the design of the knot but it is not very spirally. The loops at north, south, east and west are not traditionally accepted in celtic knot design but I'm not a Celtics fan.
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Dr. J wasn't THAT great.
Impressive disc, though!
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Strong Bad fans >> Strong Bad for prez!!! My fav though is acctually Pom Pom. BTW have you found the link in one of the emails to take you to Strong Bad's personal web site?? Good stuff there folks!
Oooh no I've never seen that! Do you know where the link is? BTW Bubs Rules! "Where The Cheat is at?"
Nice disc, Bruce. It's hard when something so nice can be such a pain in the butt to produce! :)
I sold a mistake yesterday for $15. It was just a $5 Challenger with some spirals that bled badly. So I tried to dye the entire top black leaving the bottom orange, but the tape residue blocked the second dye about 30-60% in an uneven pattern. Looked like a spiraled orange disc that was thoroughly toasted. I think the guy who bought it was toasted too.
This one is based on the flag pirate Henry Avery flew. He was forced into piracy when he and his crewmates went four months without pay in the Royal Navy. They stole the boat, ditched the Captain, and headed south around Africa and back up to the Red Sea. There they joined forces with several other pirates and plundered the Islamic pilgrims on their way to Mecca. They took several tonnes of gold, silver and diamonds, divided it in a right pirately fashion, and retired to New Zealand.
Avery eventually changed his name and returned to England with a hoard of diamonds.
Herewith, for your viewing pleasure:
cool :wacko:
My favorite is Alyssa's that looks like a rose :D
Haaaarrrrrrrrrrr!
I sold Pirate Henry Avery for more money than I can mention, in a complex 3-party transaction that only happens if I can get Henry Avery a PDGA membership. The PDGA has pretty low standards. People have bought memberships for infants, alter-egos and pets. Buying a membership for a pirate dead 300 years should be no problem.
Just let me say this: This is the first disc I've done that was more profitable than my part-time job.
Becky, I like the flowers and snowflakes too. Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse, among other heterosexual artsy types, also liked flowers and other femmy subjects. But I'm dying these discs to sell them, and pirates apparently are hot!
mother mother ocean
after all these years I've found
my occupational hazard is that
my occupation's just not around
--pirate looks at 40, jimmy buffet
I realize that this is a controversial symbol. Jon and I are descendants of soldiers who fought on both sides of this war. The men who fought under this flag fought for their freedom from interference from federal government. They lost.
Heritage not Hate:
harmony, not Hamas
Quoteharmony, not Hamas
Strong Throws, not Strom Thurmond.
Nice flag. Your colors seem to be getting bolder. Are you leaving the dye on longer or are they different discs that take the dye differently?
Thurgood Marshall, not Marshall Law!
Happy 50th to Brown v. Board of Education!
Are you allowed to use that symbol in Michigan? Isn't it considered heresy?
QuoteNice flag. Your colors seem to be getting bolder. Are you leaving the dye on longer or are they different discs that take the dye differently?
Most of the other discs were Z-plastic. The Confederate Navy Jack was on Elite X Glow. It looks really cool in a closet with the door shut! The Elite X Glow really soaks up the dye. The colors are as bright as they look in the scan.
Still trying to decide what to put on the back. I was hoping a buyer would give me a clue. Not one of you Northerners -- I posted a link to the disc on the Southern Nationals website!
QuoteIt looks really cool in a closet with the door shut!
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thats about my putting distance !
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Jessie Jackson in a dress saying "Harrrrrr," is a disturbing image. :blink:
I got a special order for a squirrel road kill disc yesterday. I try not to understand this stuff, but it has something to do with our USWDGC trip and the nicknames everyone came home with.
So in true Dr. Dye Rip-Off fashion I thought I'd do a two-sided dye. The topside will have tire tread marks, and that part is done. The bottom side will have a "chalk outline" of a squirrel. :lol:
Note to webmaster: For some reason :whacko: as shown on the expanded emoticon list is nonfunctional. :mellow:
how appropriate for you to notice!
:wacko:
mine works
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spelling......
Aaron or Tori?
How do I throw my MRV?
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OK now THAT is just scary.
I tried to copy that little jpg to my desktop and the message changed. It said something about a spoon.
Tried a second time and it changed again. It said something about cheese.
Jon, do you eat cheese with a spoon?
and why do you want my ip address?
The Chessie Cat. This is the logo of the CSX Railroad:
While doing some ebay browsing (while at work) today, I saw some new dyes from non-DrDye people. Some really suck, some are pretty OK. Here's one of Jack Nicholson from "The Shining":
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=20851 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3647555528&category=20851)
Yeah, I have seen this one. This is the second time this guy did this design. I am pretty sure he uses stickers that he prints himself. Or something to that effect.
That is one creepy disc :o
The Disc Golf Store went out of business and a bunch of space aliens took over. They've been feeling worked by their state coordinator who keeps telling them not to sweat same-day tournaments 150-350 miles away. So to make them feel a little more welcome on this alien planet, I did a couple of discs for them. The design on the discs is similar their logo at www.flyingsaucerdg.com.
The blue space alien is surrounded by black and red stripes which maybe are showing up better in real life.
The one below with four space aliens I spun on a wheel. I did not like how it spun out so I circularized the spin blobs.
I think the reason why these guys are sweating competing tournaments in Chicago and Ontario is because, from their perspective, whether their buddies go to the tournament in Chicago, Detroit or Ontario just depends upon how accurate they are in calculating entry vectors. If you manage to land in a corn field in Iowa, its not like you are going to drive all the way to Detroit if there is something going on in Chicago.
What's your vector, Victor?
sweet dyes bruce....we might have to talk biz on these... how fast can you pump them out?? also very true about the vectors, we don't quite have the science down yet. i just want to have the best tournaments, can you blame me?
The reader will note how Hugh cleverly neither admits nor denies that Flying Saucer Disc Golf is a space alien controlled organization. :ph34r:
Discontinuum needs a cool logo.
this has gotten many compliments over the years
Too bad that one has the club name misspelled, similar to the first run of club stamped discs we did.....
No offense Jim, I'm not knocking your skills as a graphic artist or the current logo, but I do think that perhaps we need to consider a new or updated logo.
Jerks.
I'm taking my club and going home.
Apparently so.
Quotethis has gotten many compliments over the years
I've always thought that was cool website artwork but not really a logo.
Jon, during Star Trek last night I made my two go-to Buzzzes PDGA legal. I've been thinking about what to add above the stock stamp and now I've got it: "803.05."
Jo-Jo: I had an idea for how to do hand lettering like this without scratching the flight plate of the disc. It worked out great on this one.
How was it illegal?
QuoteHow was it illegal?
Technically, having a Buzzz at a pdga tournament is not illegal but what you did to get that Buzzz might have violated the policy interpretting Rule 804.05(A)(4). See, http://www.pdga.com/rules/index.php (http://www.pdga.com/rules/index.php) for further details.
Ah. I thought you were talking about something other than the disc's name, like the mold itself not being approved or something like that.
I did this bear paw disc yesterday. I like the way it turned out but I should have been more patient.
If there are any Bear fans in this audience who would like a bear paw Crush with an Illinois Open ghost stamp, I'll take special orders.
I suppose Colorado Grizzlies fans could get one too, but I don't know Colorado Grizzly colors.
QuoteI did this bear paw disc yesterday. I like the way it turned out but I should have been more patient.
If there are any Bear fans in this audience who would like a bear paw Crush with an Illinois Open ghost stamp, I'll take special orders.
I suppose Colorado Grizzlies fans could get one too, but I don't know Colorado Grizzly colors.
That actually might be a good logo/dyed disc for Parkside...our nickname is the Ranger Bears.
We just had a "Big Paw" tournament last fall. This spring we'll be having a "Spring Fling." If it changes to "Big PaW" I'll let you know.
QuoteI did this bear paw disc yesterday. I like the way it turned out but I should have been more patient.
If there are any Bear fans in this audience who would like a bear paw Crush with an Illinois Open ghost stamp, I'll take special orders.
I suppose Colorado Grizzlies fans could get one too, but I don't know Colorado Grizzly colors.
You might be able to pay ransom for the grudge stump with one of those. :rolleyes:
I did this disc this weekend. It took a lot longer than a bear paw. Anybody recognize this guy? If not, go have a bowl of Frosted Flakes and think about it.
Thats grrrrrrrreat!!!
Tony, like every other thing I own, is for sale. If I don't get a spontaneous outrageous offer from someone, I'll auction him off at one of my tournaments. Whatever he ultimately goes for, I get $10 and the Junior Girls Travel Fund gets the rest.
Tony is now on auction at the Waterford Junior Girls area of the pdga.com discussion board.
QuoteTony is now on auction at the Waterford Junior Girls area of the pdga.com discussion board.
click on this to go to the auction and help send the Waterford Jr. Girls to Worlds! (http://www.pdga.com/msgboard/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=153010&Main=151372#Post153010)
The Valkyrie is dyed. Someone please tell me it looks like Sharpie! :D
Here is a dye that was done by a guy here at work, Dave Light. Dave is the one who did my Speedy and Slow Poke discs. He used worm dye on this one. This was the first time he tried this particular dye. The colors look pretty nice, but looks like the dye would rub off if you really tried.
I know it's a trade secret and all, but can anyone give some suggestions with worm dye? He didn't add anything to the dye, just put on the liquid. I know when using other dyes, other things are added. If you can't give any suggestions, do you know any links that I could look at?
Your GRACIOUS recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
This eagle is dyed too. I did his twin in red with a pointy spin pattern,
SICK!! That's awesome.
I really like the design on the VALKYRIE.. Too bad DX doesn't hold dye well.
Well done well done. 8)
I was looking for tournament information and came across an on-line catalogue where a lot of my discs are for sale. Jon and I might set up something similar, perhaps this winter when I can dye some discs and not sell them the follwing week at a tournament! Every disc Pluister says I did, I did, plus most of the ones that are not attributed to anyone are mine.
Click here and then browse the catalogue. (http://www.plu-ent.com/store/products2.php)
Hey - Dr Dye has the first disc listed in the drivers!
QuoteHey - Dr Dye has the first disc listed in the drivers!
It is funny how discs get around. A lot of discs are just tokens. Amateurs win them and then turn around and sell them back to their club merch guy for 50 cents on the dollar.
Pluister bought the Wildcat from me when he needed some merch for his Ice Bowl.
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Some of Pluister's comments are unintentionally funny, like everytime he says, "One-of-a-kind" or "truly unique" it is something I've done a half dozen of. That Firechicken is pretty cool [one of four so far] when there is no hotstamp in the way but Pluister asked me not to remove a lot of hot stamps.
I like the other Valk that you did, Bruce. Also, one of my favorites might be the X Wasp (red, orange, yellow).
Are you going to be at any of the Illinois Open events (probably a dumb question)? I thought maybe I could have you bring me a "No Obstacles" flying pig DX Roc...unless going through the site is just easier.
QuoteI like the other Valk that you did, Bruce. Also, one of my favorites might be the X Wasp (red, orange, yellow).
Are you going to be at any of the Illinois Open events (probably a dumb question)? I thought maybe I could have you bring me a "No Obstacles" flying pig DX Roc...unless going through the site is just easier.
I'm doing those Valks whenever I have the time to cut the stickers. Tonight I did 20 discs so i did not do a lot of sticker stuff. But i have five or six of those Valks in stock right now and a couple of stickers waiting to be cut. Kelsey is helping by drawing the Valks on the stickers but her hands are not strong enough to do the cutting.
I'd say go through Pluister's website. He'll probably come down to Flip City this weekend and set up his sales tent. I invited him. But I'll get busy and forget to get a pig-Roc off him.
I'll probably be at the IOS. Unless Jon decides to go unsanctioned, no trophies and cash payout to all divisions. But that does not seem likely. I'll have some more Valks done by then.
People are saying they like the red-orange-yellow stuff best so I'm doing a lot in those color combinations. But for T-Rex Monsters and Beasts I like to use green.
I love it when the shelves are full of discs drying. Its almost like muffins in the oven.
I traded four colored Champion Orcs today for four white Z-Crushes. They have a really ugly stamp on them but it is colormax so you will never know it was there!!!Of all of the stuff any of you have seen of mine, is there anything you'd like to see me do with these? I'll be bringing them to IOS #1.
American flag with wavy stripes?
Another Tony? Tony is hard but I want to experiment with doing him by brush work rather than by sticker.
Anybody want Illini Crushes?
Illini Crushes would be hot especially if they win it all.
yeah i like the sound of an Illini Crush.
Here it is. It scanned dark so I had to photoshop the contrast and brightness a little. In real life the colors are a little richer.
I think I will be at the Fly 18 opening rather than in Bowling Green. If an Illini fan made me the right offer at the Fly 18 opening, I'd part with this disc.
That looks sweet!!
that is an awesome looking disc...
Quotethat is an awesome looking disc...
ditto. if only I cared about basketball.
perhaps I could commission a Cubs monster?
I have a totally sweet Tigger in production along with Chilly Willy. You know the Bears' new logo, a two color grizzly face with big incisors? That one is in production also.
hook a brotha up bruce
This is a fairly accurate picture of the Bear except that the rim is not darker. That is an artifact.
I sold that Bear and started another. The Chilly Willy and the Tigger are almost done and I'm looking forward to putting up pics.
I'm testing the new Innova DX plastic to see how it dyes. It is rubbery and grippy compared to what they used to call DX. It feels like it should dye. I'm test dying a D'Orc.
The scanner exaggerates the discoloration around the rim and maybe it will clean up a little before anyone see this in person. Also the scanner puts in some fuzzy shadows that are not there in real life. I'm happy with the way it turned out:
I put a white piece of paper inside the disc on this one to minimize the shadow. This is on a Z XL:
Tee eye double guh ur!
This Tigger is a "first run" and is priced at $10,000. If no one buys it, I'll give it to Diana. Subsequent run Tiggers will be priced at $25 or so.
I sold the Chief and the Chilly tonight to the same customer for $45. He had serious disc munchies. He bought two non-dyed discs before he even saw the specials. He asked how long I'd be there and I said maybe another hour. 45 minutes later he was back with a $50 bill.
I'll try to get a few more Chillys done because I enjoy doing them. A Chilly and a Bear work great together to use up one sheet of masking paper.
Wow, that Chief disc looked amazing. I play on the Illini Disc Golf team (the "Frolfing Illini") and we were just talking about how awesome it would be if someone dyed a disc like that. We are hosting a tournament in a couple weeks and I believe the discs we are giving away in the players pack are going to be Rocs with a big illinois "I" on them... if the university lets us get by the licensing issues. We are only a club team after all.
Double post.
Thank you for the compliment. The Chief was far more work than I have time to do right now. We will have a lot of my "original" dyed discs at the Illinois Open Series. Check it out. www.brasscash.com. Maybe the team should make a road trip.
I did three Yodas tonight and a Statue of Liberty. I may post pictures next week. Kelsey is being very helpful in finding interesting pictures and photoshopping them into disc art formats.
QuoteThank you for the compliment. The Chief was far more work than I have time to do right now. We will have a lot of my "original" dyed discs at the Illinois Open Series. Check it out. www.brasscash.com. Maybe the team should make a road trip.
I did three Yodas tonight and a Statue of Liberty. I may post pictures next week. Kelsey is being very helpful in finding interesting pictures and photoshopping them into disc art formats.
We actually just took a trip this weekend to the US Collegiate Championships in Bowling Green.... Took a distant second to WKU, the hosting school. With our tournament to host and the rest of the semester to consider, I doubt the team will collectively make it to any of the stops. I will most likely be living in the north suburbs this summer so I will definitely try to make it to at least one Open Series tournament. Maybe I will see you around.
cool! hope to see u out there. that collegiate thing sounded pretty cool. wish they would have had that a few years ago and it would've been EIU taking 1st place with 2 michlers on the team! :D
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Nice Yoda. I'm planning on putting him onto a disc one of these months.
This one is on good throwing plastic, an Orc, 174 grams besides:
What types of discs are those on?
Yoda says, "There is no disc. Buy or not buy! Hmmmm?"
The first Yoda is on a green Spider. If you are an orthodox Rocman, it would be sacreligous to have a Spider, but it is a nice, underrated upshot disc.
The Liberty Heads are on Beasts. The Beasts were a pale femmy blue but with the dark blue dye they look like they were white.
The color is all wrong on this but it scanned well so I quit messing with it. In real life the disc is a dark orange and the image is yellow. 174 gm Wildcat.
I like the way the bobcat fits between the Discraft markings and completely fills the disc. I also like the way this artwok sits on top the Innova markings like it belongs there:
I messed up a little on the Taz. It scanned better than it looks in real life. Still, it turned out fine. I editrd some previous posts and put up some discs you might have missed, if you don't go back to page 6.
I love the Taz. That is super cool. The cat is cool also.
these are all looking really nice... How long did it take you to get this good, or is it really not that hard? I would like to try dying my discs but I dont really want to mess up and be throwing a bunch of ugly mis-haps. That Jerry one is sick.
Quotethese are all looking really nice... How long did it take you to get this good, or is it really not that hard? I would like to try dying my discs but I dont really want to mess up and be throwing a bunch of ugly mis-haps. That Jerry one is sick.
Thank you. All I get out of this is the compliments, unless making about $2 per hour for my time on some of these is something. So I appreciate the compliments.
I spent ten years thinking about dying discs so once I went to work on finding a dye formula it was like I had a good head start. The Tony Tiger that is my icon here I did in month 4 of dying discs. I think disc dying is easy, but time consuming and detail oriented, if you want to do anything special.
If you want to see any of this stuff up close and personal, play the Illinois Open Series. I'll save about half of it for the Saturday players who play on Sunday for the first two.
QuoteQuotethese are all looking really nice... How long did it take you to get this good, or is it really not that hard? I would like to try dying my discs but I dont really want to mess up and be throwing a bunch of ugly mis-haps. That Jerry one is sick.
Thank you. All I get out of this is the compliments, unless making about $2 per hour for my time on some of these is something. So I appreciate the compliments.
I spent ten years thinking about dying discs so once I went to work on finding a dye formula it was like I had a good head start. The Tony Tiger that is my icon here I did in month 4 of dying discs. I think disc dying is easy, but time consuming and detail oriented, if you want to do anything special.
If you want to see any of this stuff up close and personal, play the Illinois Open Series. I'll save about half of it for the Saturday players who play on Sunday for the first two.
I really need to make it to one of those tournaments. Fairfield and Bevier are the only courses on it that I have even played before, but not knowing the course hasnt stopped me from entering tournaments in the past. I would really like to throw some dyed discs, I only have one... Someone gave me a dyed KC Pro Eagle last year, it is Dr. Dyed but I have to say it is probably one of his earlier ones... Definitely not up to par with what he puts out now.
I thought I'd take down that one pic before the "front office" sees it and put up a new one. In China the carp symbolizes financial success whereas in Japan it symbolizes strength. It is on a Cryztal Z Challenger. The smeariness is all scanner artifacts.
QuoteI only have one... Someone gave me a dyed KC Pro Eagle last year, it is Dr. Dyed but I have to say it is probably one of his earlier ones...
Did it say Shawn Fallon on the back?
one of these? http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_geowave (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_geowave)
http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_bluyellow (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_bluyellow)
you're gettin' good bruce..
quality ;)
QuoteQuoteI only have one... Someone gave me a dyed KC Pro Eagle last year, it is Dr. Dyed but I have to say it is probably one of his earlier ones...
Did it say Shawn Fallon on the back?
one of these? http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_geowave (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_geowave)
http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_bluyellow (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album02/IN_KCpro_E_bluyellow)
nope. sorry. I saw a couple 10X eagles for sale down in Bowling green last weekend, I should have picked them up. Dyed or not, that is a sweet disc.
10x Eagles are crap! I don't know why anyone would waste space in thier disc bag for one. If it was up to me I would ban them from disc golf.
Everone should send thier 10x Eagles to me for disposal. I will take care of getting rid of them free of charge. I will make sure you never have to look at one again.
Better yet you don't even have to send them to me. I will come and get them. I am willing to do this so we can rid the world of 10x Eagles. No, don't thank me. That's just the helpful kind of person I am.
When I was selling discs at the course a player showed me a T-Rex disc he had that was a rip-off of my T-Rex design. The guy who did it did not do as much detail on the spine and the bony protruberances on the top of the skull. Anyway, I was flattered that someone was ripping off one of the few things that I am NOT ripping off!
This one turned out well but it is in colors I cannot see. I can see the texture and shading, not the color. So, I don't know if it scanned well for color either.
Quote10x Eagles are crap! I don't know why anyone would waste space in thier disc bag for one. If it was up to me I would ban them from disc golf.
Everone should send thier 10x Eagles to me for disposal. I will take care of getting rid of them free of charge. I will make sure you never have to look at one again.
Better yet you don't even have to send them to me. I will come and get them. I am willing to do this so we can rid the world of 10x Eagles. No, don't thank me. That's just the helpful kind of person I am.
sounds like someone doesnt appreciate a good hyzer flip... :D
not bad for freehand on that disc. i definitely need to try this sometime.
This is a composite image of all my high school math teachers...
you take requests bruce
Quoteyou take requests bruce
All the time. And half the time I sell them to someone else. So many weasels!
Hey, four of my discs went straight from Kenosha to e-Bay. See if you can guess which four:
http://stores.ebay.com/Channel-Zs-Disc-Gol...genameZL2QQtZkm (http://stores.ebay.com/Channel-Zs-Disc-Golf-Fly-Mart_W0QQsspagenameZL2QQtZkm)
I will have more cool stuff at IOS #2. And my prices are lower too! No more attempted auctions. That concept went nowhere.
bruce make a website gallery :D
Quotebruce make a website gallery :D
And you think this right here is ... ?
never mind all this. trying to figure something out...
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an effective method to increase your post count
;)
In real life this looks reddish-orange and yellow. Sometimes yellow scans grey and then turns white when I brighten it.
This is the colorized version:
Anyone want to do a Batman dye?
New Logo - please let me know!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you looking for this one?
Doing something based on some of the posters could be cool also.
either one would be badazz!
If anyone is interested I would be willing to pay a limited fee...
I rinsed off some discs today. I'll post a couple of pictures later.
This would be a nice disc for your wife or girlfriend. 171 Z-XL.
This would be a nice disc for your husband or boyfriend, 171 Pro Starfire.
If your dad has been really good, get him this 172 Pro Line Starfire for Father's Day:
QuoteThis would be a nice disc for your husband or boyfriend, 171 Pro Starfire.
I love the colors on that red and blue Pro Starfire! Nice.
QuoteAre you looking for this one?
I downloaded that bat and photoshopped it to get a good outline. I could do the bat in solid black and then do a "red sky at night" kind of effect in the background, similar to the poster. It would not be the same but similar.
QuoteThis is my first attempt at dying a disc after doing some tests. I wasn't going to do anything like Dr. Dye but then Bruce inspired me by suggesting I do an american flag as if the flag were circular, whatever my interpretation of that may be. So here it is. This will probably be the only disc I ever dye in a Dr Dye like way. I have some ideas to take the dying in a different direction. We'll see if I can actually do it.
1.5 years later...I finally came up with a dye additive that would do what I want to do. I call it Jelly Dye. It's not really a different direction, just the process that I wanted to do. Here is my first test with this dye process.
Anyway, I have some plans to add more colors and do some other designs, but I'm fairly pleased with this test.
Looks really cool! If you could crank those out one every five minutes you could quit your job.
More posting behind. This is the Starfire Sunset collection. If anyone wants to reserve one of these before they become the Batfire collection, speak now.
QuoteAnyone want to do a Batman dye?
New Logo - please let me know!!!!!!!!!!!
172 Pro Starfire
Nice dye! I saw the movie on Sunday with Becky and Maddisen. I thought it was pretty good. Very dark and the bat mobile rocks!
I did $1 dye jobs on 17 discs this afternoon, new dyed stuff for Rockford. I bought an old record player at a garage sale so I was spinning the discs on that at 33 and 45 rpm. I showed the ladies running the garage sale what I was going to do with it and they wanted to know if I also painted saws! I told them that I was entirely pro-painted saws but I only do frisbees.
I'm going to do a couple more batfires this weekend and a batcrush, maybe some cubbie stuff, and a few orc bears if I have any orange orcs.
I'll post behind Brett's discs for sale so he can have top billing for awhile. Of all the $1 dyes I did, this one is worth $2:
I won't have any Orc-bears. I will have two Orc-orcs. This is the Orc-orc. Now that he is done, I think the artwork needs some more work. Someone will like it.
QuoteQuotethat is an awesome looking disc...
ditto. if only I cared about basketball.
perhaps I could commission a Cubs monster?
My bad. I had a Monster cleaned off and waiting to be dyed. I thought about doing a Cubs logo on it and then thought, "Who would want a Cubs Monster?" If you still want one, I'll try to do it for the August event.
GOOD STUFF BRUCE!
Almost all my dyed stuff sold at Rockford. Maybe I should jack up my prices. I was really disappointed with the way a lot of it turned out at the time, but then when I had it out in the sunlight today it looked a lot better. I don't like the Orc-orcs though. Next time I'll have Orc-bears and more Cubs and Sox stuff. I'll do some Jerrys and some Libertys and if Yoda sold, some Yodas. And the cheap spin stuff.
I have been not making the best use of my dye-time recently. This one I like, and both the art critic and the art neanderthal like it too.
This one did not scan well and I don't like it.
Some people think crop circles are a natural phenomenon caused by electrical discharges. That would explain why the switchboard on the washing machine is fried.
QuoteI have been not making the best use of my dye-time recently. This one I like, and both the art critic and the art neanderthal like it too.
very nice bruce. What kind of disc is that on?
The abstract blue square pattern is on a 174 Orc but it could be on anything. I'm doing a red one on something but I forget what.
Just so no one thinks I've entered my Blue Period,
QuoteThe abstract blue square pattern is on a 174 Orc but it could be on anything. I'm doing a red one on something but I forget what.
wow, do it on a 171-172 orc and youve got yourself a customer :D
i am too picky when it comes to disc weights
Precioussss
QuoteI have been not making the best use of my dye-time recently. This one I like, and both the art critic and the art neanderthal like it too.
I think the title on this one should be "TETRIS gone bad"
This is the red one. It did not turn out great. How about "Tetris on the Bathroom Floor"
Looks more like a crossword puzzle. What's a six letter word for a rudimentry computer game? TETRIS.
Ocean City Fishy-fishy is on chick weight plastic. This one is a 160 Orc and the other is a 165 Beast.
Kelsey and Diana's Fishy-Fishy died today. He was four years old which was very old for a fish of his species. His kind normally live about 2.5 years in captivity. In the wild they usually live until a big fish happens to swim by at snack time. RIP, Fishy-Fishy.
Edited March 2, 2006.
i want to dye a disc but i have no clue how to do it , help?
Quotei want to dye a disc but i have no clue how to do it , help?
I have posted the secrets before on this message board. Try the search thingy. Some non-Discontinuum folks get mad when I keep telling the secret, so just to save my e-mail anti-virus a work out tonight I won't post it again...but it is still out there.
these look great! do you do dye jobs for the discs that are sold around here at gas stations? I bought a Flash a couple months back that I really like but cant find one with that tyedyed design anywhere else. Some of the discrafts that you dye look a lot like the ones where i buy my discs from.
Quotei want to dye a disc but i have no clue how to do it , help?
Here is a link that may help...
want to know how to dye a disc???? click me!!! (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album13)
Quotethese look great! do you do dye jobs for the discs that are sold around here at gas stations? I bought a Flash a couple months back that I really like but cant find one with that tyedyed design anywhere else. Some of the discrafts that you dye look a lot like the ones where i buy my discs from.
If you post your Flash, I can probably tell you whether it looks like my work. If it is a stock stamped Flash I know it is not my work. All of the Flashes I've dyed have been tournament stamped.
172 gram Monster:
towelie's eyes don't look right...
he doesn't look high enough
and that.........is a problem. ^-^
Quote from: mirth on February 25, 2006, 01:16:29 PM
towelie's eyes don't look right...
I can "fix" the eyes. Never having seen the show, and having seen him with both clear eyes and buzzed eyes on the internet, I did not know which were correct. I was making it as a gift of appreciation for an underappreciated volunteer who throws monsters and watches the show, if anyone might fit that category...
If you have a good monitor, this trophy disc is pretty cool. If your monitor sucks, so does the disc. My monitor sucks at home. I can't wait to look at it at work!
this is my attempt its not a geometry project like dr.dye but i tryed GO BEARS
wow how do i put a normal sized pic on here
Quote from: Super Roc on March 09, 2006, 08:26:01 PM
wow how do i put a normal sized pic on here
Fixed it for you. Your pic was like 2500 pixels wide, I made it 600 wide.
thanks
A Dr. Bruce rip-off on the Dr. Dye Ripoff thread? I'm so flattered! :mellow: And so happy that you are not doing it better than this one: http://discontinuum.org/forums/index.php/topic,897.100.html ;D
I have a cool Chicago skyline disc in the works. Jon says I ripped off the idea from him. I think we came up with the idea independently. He did mention it to me before I mentioned it to him, but I'm pretty sure I thought of it before he mentioned it and just hadn't figured out how to do it until I did the Bat discs. He may have thought of it first, but I'm going to beat him to the patent office! :o
It bled some. :(
How long did it take you to make that skyline Bruce? That has to be terribly frustrating to spend the amount of effort that you do into dying the disc just so that it could bleed on you. Awesome job though!
If I added up the hours, I would not do the work! I hope the second one turns out better.
I have better masking materials that cost more. I won't do the skyline cheap again, except for the second one that is already almost done.
Bruce
How can I get you to do a dye job for my daughters disc?
Send me e-mail at rollerdoos@aol.com
Quote from: bruce_brakel on April 19, 2005, 08:03:32 PM
When I was selling discs at the course a player showed me a T-Rex disc he had that was a rip-off of my T-Rex design. The guy who did it did not do as much detail on the spine and the bony protruberances on the top of the skull. Anyway, I was flattered that someone was ripping off one of the few things that I am NOT ripping off!
This one turned out well but it is in colors I cannot see. I can see the texture and shading, not the color. So, I don't know if it scanned well for color either.
Well it is the skull of a T-Rex; everyone has access to that. It's not rocket science.
Bruce what type of masking are you using? I really never have a bleed problem unless I was careless and missed something. I just don't understand why you are having bleeding issues. Let me know thanks.
Josh
Well, if you WANT bleed I can tell you what to use! ::) No bleed on the six non-trophy discs in this picture:
Wow, that Star Wraith in the top right is fantastic! They are all really good, but that Star Wraith would be my fav from the group of 9. Although... looking at that Star TeeBird again, that looks really good too!
Need to put a big piece of cheese in the middle of those pictures of wisconsin ;D Although that would mean Illinois would deserve corn... so on second thought, forget that idea lol.
They are even better in real life. You can see them in real life at IOS #1. :rolleyes:
SIck ICE ROC!! My first attempt at something like this.
(http://www.widiscgolf.com/pdga/mydye.jpg)(http://www.widiscgolf.com/pdga/mydye2.jpg)
I've been masking spirals and doing some discs like these recently.
So Diana and I were talking while I was doing sticker work on this concept disc that is still looking for its concept. And Diana says, "I know how Jo-Jo cuts all those circles." And I say, "Oh?" And she says, "Yeah he uses [these things]." And I say, "You think?" And she says, "He must."
So I decided to use those things to do some circle patterns and cut them out. They did not work for cutting purposes, but since I had a disc all stickered over and the stickers all circlefied I got a knife and cut up the circles by hand. I'll post those pics tomorrow or the next day.
This is the concept disc that did not really work for me. The concept is that the pattern is made by stickers that are scale miniature paving stones like what you could have done for a patio or driveway. I guess the problem is that the pattern is boring. I have an idea for an interesting pattern.
This is the second disc I did in the style of Jo-Jo. The first one is in the garage and it is cold out there tonight! And for Josh Hamm's benefit, I don't have or use a plotter. I cut the pattern by hand using the same techniques Jo-Jo says he uses. And now I believe him. It is not hard, but it is exacting.
Well then the Doc should stop spilling his secrets, that is sweet bruce
Dying discs is so easy, when we tell people the secrets they don't believe us! None of these discs are going to be on e-bay. If you see one you like, contact me by e-mail or im or pm. Otherwise, they will be trophy discs for Kensington Big D Special League Doubles.
It takes me about three hours to draw a pattern, apply it to the disc and cut it out. The cutting is the most tedious part. I'm going to keep making these until I run out of ideas. I'll post another one tonight.
Quote from: bruce_brakel on December 07, 2003, 07:11:41 PM
I sold a mistake yesterday for $15. It was just a $5 Challenger with some spirals that bled badly. So I tried to dye the entire top black leaving the bottom orange, but the tape residue blocked the second dye about 30-60% in an uneven pattern. Looked like a spiraled orange disc that was thoroughly toasted. I think the guy who bought it was toasted too.
This one is based on the flag pirate Henry Avery flew. He was forced into piracy when he and his crewmates went four months without pay in the Royal Navy. They stole the boat, ditched the Captain, and headed south around Africa and back up to the Red Sea. There they joined forces with several other pirates and plundered the Islamic pilgrims on their way to Mecca. They took several tonnes of gold, silver and diamonds, divided it in a right pirately fashion, and retired to New Zealand.
Avery eventually changed his name and returned to England with a hoard of diamonds.
Herewith, for your viewing pleasure:
The picture didn't quote. You'd have to go back to page 2 to see the disc. Kelsey watched one of my early Pirate Henry Avery discs go to Davey Jone's Locker today. The pro had it for a couple of years and had never threw it because he liked it too much. Kelsey recognized the sticker as one she had drawn because the skull was smiling a little too much the way she draws friendly animals.
Does anyone have any favorite sticker patterns they think I should do more of? The pirate? The Valkyrie? Yoda? Jerry? I need some inspiration. I might do some of those wildcats.
I've been doing some dying recently but mostly fire, spirals and herringbones and they are starting to bore me. Players really like the fire patterns here in Michigan. I guess I should stick to what sells.
Well, I know that I would buy a black and white pirate design off ya if you have a 165g (166g is ok too) on an ESP Surge or a Pro or Star SL.
~~another suggestion~~
do a pirate that's on fire lol
What about team logos? I've seen some of those fetch a high price on ebay. Heck I'd buy some Pistons discs if you wanted to make some!
I have two pirates on fire and another Bears disc under dye right now. The Bears disc is an orange Pulse.
[edit:] Here's the Bear's disc. The photo is a little blurry. 172 gram Pulse. Yes, it is for sale. If you like it, play Bevier league Super Bowl Sunday and bring some cash.
Here is the Yoda Challenger:
Kelsey's camera saved all of these with names like P1000437 and P1000438 so every one is a surprise to me until I crop and size it. Here's the pirate on fire:
This might be the last time I post pics on this thread. In the future I'm going to just post announcements that there are new pics at glowfoto with a link. I thought I'd give the IOS players first crack at the new stuff this time.
Diana is offended by overt drug references in dye art, but she does not get this one. I'm constantly cleaning up my act getting off drugs, currently getting off caffeine and high fructose sugar, but this disc sells and I enjoy cutting it out. I'm sorry drugs killed him too young. He could play some music:
Tomorrow I'll post these pics and more at http://www.glowfoto.com/users3/bruce_brakel/
so are you willing to share the best dye methodology with us Bruce or are you hanging onto it? I like to dye my discs with my own personal logo (my avater) and have had OK success but am always looking for pointers.
Disc Dying Secrets 101 on pdga.com in the equipment threads has some useful information salted among the crazy, dangerous and expensive ideas.
I'm not posting disc dying secrets on the internet because I live about an hour point five from a certain someone's house and he is truly a maniac in real life. I'm serious about that.
But good things happen to good people. You sow lucite trophies donated to club tournaments and you reap unexpected blessings.
If you have not been out to my glowfoto site recently, you probably have not seen Chilly:
When someone does something nearly the same does it make you feel upset or humbled:
Dr. Dye (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album19/03_G) vs. This Guy (http://cgi.ebay.com/INNOVA-Pro-DYE-Leopard-175G-Tie-DYED-Disc-Golf_W0QQitemZ120086451978QQihZ002QQcategoryZ79804QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item120086451978)
Pretty much the same thing. There are two others if you look in the sellers other items.
that's so funny too. wonder where he's getting those dyes from. by all accounts based on his recent feedback this person's a total legos nerd.
That design may have been original in Jo-Jo's mind, but it was original in other minds before his. This design has been on a site I steal ideas from for years:
Quote from: SERG on February 15, 2007, 10:18:55 AM
When someone does something nearly the same does it make you feel upset or humbled:
Dr. Dye (http://www.drdyed.com/gallery/album19/03_G) vs. This Guy (http://cgi.ebay.com/INNOVA-Pro-DYE-Leopard-175G-Tie-DYED-Disc-Golf_W0QQitemZ120086451978QQihZ002QQcategoryZ79804QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item120086451978)
Pretty much the same thing. There are two others if you look in the sellers other items.
I saw these the first day they listed. At first I think to myself, hey you jerk, come up with your own designs. Then, not but a moment later, I remember that is how I started. Find something I like and see if I can do something like it. I didnt sell any of my early work though. I did it for free to learn. I am sure a bunch of people here have some of my really early work. Maybe without the DR DYED even, or just DR DYE like I did in the first year or so.
So I guess I take it as a compliment.
Now if someone what pumping out a bunch of discs with original designs I came up with over and over again, then I might get a little mad. I would probably try to contact the guy and ask him to come up with some of his own ideas.
And Bruce is right. Sometimes I have found some of the simple designs elsewhere and tried to make them my own. In fact that specific design you linked to I think was inspired by some egyptian art or something of the like(so not a completely orginal idea).
The same guy was listing a few that where much more orginal designs, or at least not DR DYED looking.
If you think it is a travesty of justice that some of my stuff never makes it to an IOS tournament, I have some pics at my glowphoto site in the May 2007 album. I might sell them all this weekend, but if you post "dibs" today, you can have first dibs at normal IOS prices. It is mostly Star, mostly 20 Brass, but the Yodas and the Warbirds are ESP. If you need to know weights and molds, just ask.
And, maybe someone already has dibs on this one:
I'm testing a new masking product tonight. If it works better than the stuff I have been using, I'll be able to produce a lot more of some of the cooler stuff I do, like the Bear, Yoda, that Eagle, and some of the other sticker stuff. It might also make it much easier to produce cartoon characters, like my avatar or that penguine you may have seen or that other tiger.
So I'm really excited. Unfortunately, work has been a crush since worlds and I'm busy working right now.
If this stuff works, I'm going to do about eight Bears right away. With or without "2006-2007 NFC Champs"?
Bruce would you be able to do a sox logo on a start sidewinder about 168-170 grams please let me know if you can and how much Jim Fischer
Yep and I'm still looking forward to the Pistons logo!
Quote from: djchill on August 08, 2007, 08:16:26 PM
Bruce would you be able to do a sox logo on a start sidewinder about 168-170 grams please let me know if you can and how much Jim Fischer
Black logo on white plastic? I can do the logo and I'm going to do a few of them. They will be much better than the last batch. This new stuff I'm working with is AWESOME!!! If anyone else wants a Sox disc, let me know. I'll see if I have Star Sidewinders that weight.
Quote from: tacimala on August 08, 2007, 09:39:03 PM
Yep and I'm still looking forward to the Pistons logo!
Pistons logo is way too complicated. I've done and could do Red Wings.
Below, hopefully is a sample of the Bears disc I'm about to do six of. The sticker will be a little smaller, but this new product gets much better adhesion and the final product is a lot cleaner. If anyone wants one done on what you throw, let me know. The price on these is the ordinary retail price for cash for the disc undyed, if you're paying cash. It is four brass more if you are paying brass. If you want me to dye your disc, $4.
I'm also doing a set of Sox discs. Same price. The Sox discs will be sweet because with this new stuff I'll be able to get the thin piping around the edge of the letter.
Like that picture except on an orange disc so the white part is orange.
I'm not interested in buying one, but I would be interested in seeing how one turns out. Are you using a blue dye to go on the orange disc? I've been curious to see how the dye color placed on a non-white disc turns out. Blue + Orange = Brown in the art world, but I don't know how the dye soaks into the disc if the blue color will just turn darker or what.
<-- still learning :)
<-- would love to see (and maybe buy) some Cubs dyes.
<-- going to save up for a vinyl cutter and hopefully start dying too in a couple months! Should be fun :)
When I do the blue on orange people say it comes out a really dark bluish purple, almost navy.
I'll clean up the Cubs logo tonight and see what I can do. If you want a bunch, I'll make you a deal.
What about the old school Pistons logo?
Quote from: Top Banana on August 10, 2007, 12:13:33 PM
When I do the blue on orange people say it comes out a really dark bluish purple, almost navy.
I'll clean up the Cubs logo tonight and see what I can do. If you want a bunch, I'll make you a deal.
I can try to make a clean line art of the cubs logo as well. There's one that's harder to do that I'd much prefer to have over the standard one (this one here):
(http://www.paulstimesink.com/gallery/2/Cubs_Logo.jpg)
That would be sweet :)
i'd love to have the clearwater cubs logo.... the cub w/a bat.
wow, i just found this awesome website that is fantastic for pictures of logos!
http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?t=54 (http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?t=54)
That's the page for the Cubs. The links towards the bottom have even more options. Some aren't cleaned up very well, but the majority of the pics are great.
I haven't seen the logo you're looking for yet Mirth, but I haven't looked at all of the links yet either.
I'm sure its on there. The logo I'm talking about is more commonly known as the 1914 Cooperstown Franchise
(http://shop.mlb.com/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-1290588dt.jpg)
That would be really easy to do if we can find a good flat picture of it. It would be so easy, I'd even do it by hand. But if you wanted six or more, I could also mass produce it.
I'd buy a Sox logo on one or both of these:
Orange 175 Cro
Orange 171ish FLX Buzzz
It would even be cooler to have one with the Script logo and one with the sock in the diamond logo. Lemme know. Thanks.
Quote from: discmonkey on August 10, 2007, 09:22:05 PM
I'd buy a Sox logo on one or both of these:
Orange 175 Cro
Orange 171ish FLX Buzzz
It would even be cooler to have one with the Script logo and one with the sock in the diamond logo. Lemme know. Thanks.
I'll look for those. I have some Star Cros and FLX Buzzzes.
I spent the past couple of hours cleaning up the Red Wings logo:
The bears all turned out great. No bleed. Great detail. The blue varies from a dark denim to a navy depending on the disc, the color perceiving members of my family say.
No orange Cros at all. I have a tangerine 172 FLX Buzzz. Tangerine is more of a yellowish orange than an orange-orange. I'll Sox it up and put your name on it. If you don't like it, someone will.
I'm hoping to have 30 or 40 Cubs, Sox, Bears, Yodas, and that eagle I do. They will never be any cheaper than what I'll be asking for them at the Club Invitational.
Awesome, I'll take the buzzz. ;D What color cros do you have? If it's not too late, I may settle on another color (I really just don't want red. Yellow, green, even white would be fine. I guess I could have one disc in the bag that's not orange. :rolleyes:). btw, it's super cool you're doing this for us Bruce. Not many Sox discs floating around out there.
I'm having a problem removing hot stamps from FLX plastic. Sometimes the acetone chews up the disc. Always, the hotstamp stains the plastic. If it was a red stamp on the tangerine disc, I'll take a chance on it.
I did do a White Sox Star Cro. I completely masked the disc so the outer areas should not get grey.
Taylor, I could do this older Pistons logo: http://www.sportslogos.net/logo.php?lo=4958
I don't want to mess with the current four-color logo.
What discs could you work with? Is there a choice on what you dye or do you prefer to only work with certain discs?
I have some white ESP Buzzzes I could work with, I think. I need to check that they are not FLX. I'd have to do them on something white to get a red white and blue design to look red white and blue.
Bruce, I'll take that Cro if it is still available on Sunday at Aurora.
I remove the stamps from most of my discs, Star or otherwise. I use brake parts cleaner and they come right off with no disc damage at all. Comes in a can at Target for like 3 bucks.
I put your name on the bottom of the Cro. You'll really like it. It came out clean.
Looks like brake cleaner is mostly tetrachloroethylene. The MSDS makes it look like scary stuff. Have you tried it on the FLX plastic?
I'm not liking the way the FLX takes color, but it takes black o.k.
It seemed to work fine on the couple of FLX buzzes I have.
Bruce I saw you mention the Pistons discs on the Byron thread. Any chance you could hold one of those for me?
I'll try to remember to bring some Pistons and Red Wings discs for the displaced Michiganders.
I'm doing some dye work for a December arts and crafts show. If there is anything you want that you've ever seen me do, now would be a good time to shoot me an e-mail. If there is anything you want that I have not yet done, now would be a good time for me to work up some new designs.
Chicago Blackhawks
I updated my GlowPhoto dyed disc inventory today. But, I didn't get pictures of the Cat in the Hat. Rats. Oh, well, maybe on Sunday. Does this board use BBCode?
(http://img5.glowfoto.com/images/2007/11/30-1724123541T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1874341)
Oh, yeah, that works. Here's a link to my December dyed disc inventory.
http://www.glowfoto.com/users3/bruce_brakel/view.php?aid=39016
And, I'm not seeing the Detroit Tigers and Lions discs. Well, you guys don't care about those. I'll get the camera girl to do some more work, but tomorrow we're playing a tournament.
Quote from: ChrisPUTTS on November 01, 2007, 05:30:58 PM
Chicago Blackhawks
I looked at the Blackhawks' Indian head logo. Too complex for me to want to try. Their crossed tomahawks logo I could do, but only for a special order.
I've been playing around with geometric designs some more. Suzanne and I have figured out how to do these quick and easy. Anything that works for her works for me. This is Geometric 6-5:
(http://img5.glowfoto.com/images/2007/11/30-1724056588T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1874338)
This one is Geometric Five Star:
(http://img5.glowfoto.com/images/2007/11/30-1724096049T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1874340)
Everthing is for sale and I can re-do this stuff on other plastic too. I'm not spending hours cutting these on the disc. Suzanne is cutting them with a machine.
Here's the Cat in the Hat:
(http://img3.glowfoto.com/images/2007/12/01-1921327711T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1876404)
Because the platic is clear it does not photograph well. Live and in person, this is the best stuff I've ever done.
This is what I'd do to take better pics of those. Take a large box and cut the flaps off of it. Set it up open side up and put a shop light in it (cut a hole in the side for the cord. Stretch a white sheet across the top and put bricks or rocks on the floor to hold the sheet. Put the disc or discs on top and take the picture but don't use a flash. You might have to compensate the exposure a little for all the white in the back ground or you can adjust it in photoshop after.
Maybe if it was all set up right you could illuminate the disc without casting shadows on the backdrop.
In the past I've put a white paper insert inside the rime of clear stuff before shooting it. It makes it better looking than it really is.
I'm not going to E-bay any of the Cat in the Hats so taking good pictures is not that important. I've decided to go ordinary retail, cash-only, for discs with logos or art I don't own. I'm doing the art for personal reasons, and if I sell the disc, I'm giving the art away for free.
That would not satisfy some Disney lawyer, but it satisfies my conscience.
There isn't really anything to get shadows from.
Oh, I get it. You're talking about illuminating the discs from behind with the light behind the sheet. I could do that on my tracing box. We'll try that soon.
I just finished a set of these for a special order. They all came out very nice.
(http://img3.glowfoto.com/images/2007/12/02-1220303049T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1877098)
You cannot tell from the photo but the red is a little speckled. It looks nice speckled. I mixed the dye according to the recipe, so what can I do?
Those look really nice!
You should use a white sheet though instead of a paisley one! :P
I deleted 20 old instant messages today. Y'all can resume flaming my in box. :D
These are a couple of my recent dyes. Champ Destroyers. Already sold.
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2007/12/27-1426177102T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1915546)
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2007/12/27-1426208012T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1915547)
This month's stuff is here: http://www.glowfoto.com/users3/bruce_brakel/view.php?aid=39016
It is almost all sold, but I can do any of it again.
Those pictures turned out great. How did you take them?
I put them on a light box, like you suggested, except it was not a home-made light box. I like the oblique angle picture.
I just finished another set of these for a special order. Again, they all came out very nice.
(http://img3.glowfoto.com/images/2007/12/02-1220303049T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1877098)
For this order I had to make fewer discs than I ordered stickers, because with the stickers I get them by the sheet. So if anyone would like one or more of these, let me know.
Got the stickers today. Man I cannot wait for some free time to get these babies going! Thanks.
Think of it as a Discontinuum/Fox Valley Metro gesture of goodwill. If you want to pay me $2 for them sometime, feel free, but its not like i'm going to remember if you forget too. Personal use only. No e-bay.
Hey, speaking of stickers, if there are any SF 49ers fans or Oakland Raiders fans in the reading audience, I have can do those teams now. I'll post picks of the ones I'm doing special as soon as they are done.
My most recent work.
I'm looking for a window of time to work up the Chief for repeat production. I think Krupicka was using the disc as an avatar for awhile. Someone was.
I was using the Chief as an avatar until my daughter made me the cool mini I use now. I'd be interested in a chief disc.
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2008/03/06-1759276915T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1998909)Darth Vader -- original Bruce Brakel design
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2008/03/06-1759181616T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1998907) Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Original Bruce Brakel design.
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2008/03/06-1759324753T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=1998910)Trophy disc. Original Bruce Brakel design but a classic Dr. Dye rip-off concept!
yeah I'm definitely going to have to get some Force drivers from you with Yoda on some and Darth on the others... I'll talk to you about it at Irish
I sent the mask artwork to the sticker lady today that I will use to do this artwork on a disc:
(http://img5.glowfoto.com/images/2008/03/12-1803536136T.jpg)
I have a smattering of this and that in white Innova Star plastic, a lot of white Star Wraiths and Star Destroyers, white Z Buzzes, Flashes, Avengers and white ESP Forces. At IOS tournaments they will be priced at 25 Brass, $18 to $20 US, depending on the plastic, I can go a little lower for a mail order or an IOS Friday pick-up.
This is similar to the discontinued U of I logo, but not the same. I sent a list of about ten differences to Erich at Discraft to try to convince him that we could use it on a Colormax. I'm not gonna succeed at that, but I have to try.
I would LOVE a white ESP Flash or Force with a Chief on it. And one with the throwback Brewers MB glove logo.
I have two white ESP Flashes. Several white Forces.
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2008/03/16-1835205593T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=2008911)
(http://img4.glowfoto.com/images/2008/03/16-1835244014T.jpg) (http://www.glowfoto.com/user_imageredirect.php?iid=2008912)
These are not sold, yet. The pictures are very accurate for color, imperfections, etc. Both Buzzzes are very flat topped. The darker Buzzz is a little warped in the flight plate. They'll probably fly like seasoned first runs but they are ESP. For bigger pictures, click on the picture and maybe it takes you to my glowfoto site.
any chance i could get this image on a couple of discs
I actually put another Buzzz under dye tonight. I'm trying to do it as a one-phase dye, which is tricky with this design. I can do special requests.
Now that I'm not dying discs for tournaments, I have a lot of time to dye discs. If anyone has a yearning for a custom anything, let me know.
I have some Glo Champion I'd love to dye and sell. Glo Champion takes dye well but does not fade as much as Star. I think I have Wraiths, Firebirds, Bosses and Destroyers. If you are unfamiliar with my skills you can peruse this thread and check out my home page at http://discgolfer.ning.com/profile/BruceBrakel.
Unfortunately, all my glowphoto links are now dead. But the Discontinuum links are still good.
I think I'll post my inventory later.
Quote from: Bruce Brakel on February 09, 2012, 08:21:17 AM
I have some Glo Champion I'd love to dye and sell. Glo Champion takes dye well but does not fade as much as Star. I think I have Wraiths, Firebirds, Bosses and Destroyers. If you are unfamiliar with my skills you can peruse this thread and check out my home page at http://discgolfer.ning.com/profile/BruceBrakel.
Unfortunately, all my glowphoto links are now dead. But the Discontinuum links are still good.
I think I'll post my inventory later.
Can I get dibs on these for the 2011 IOS overalls? People seemed to really like the 2010 ones that you did. Do you have enough?
You can have dibs. I'd be happy to produce 2011 Overalls. I'll go count the stock.
I have 14 glo champ discs that the stamps are going to come off so clean you won't hardly be able to tell they were previously stamped. I have nine other glo champs that I cannot represent because they are in another township at the moment. So I have 23 +/- the accuracy of the inventory and quality of the hotstamp or colormax. The inventory was updated November 2011 so it is pretty accurate, +/- how freakin' cold it was in the barn that night.
Let's negotiate the details so we can get this done before the season starts. E-mail me or call me at work or something.
I have some of bruce's work
I have 2 requests
both firebirds or both wraiths
u of i logo
the girl from the miller high life logo
ill get the images shortly
The girl from Miller High Life:
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/logo/miller%20high%20life
That one?
That's my girl
Turns out I have 20 champ glow discs that I could do trophies or other custom requests on. I have two more that just won't come clean.
I don't think I'd attempt the Miller Girl. If Jon does not need all 20, I'd do a couple of Chief Illiniweks. That is a tricky dye job, but it looks pretty cool when it is done.