Wood Dye – Powdered Solvent 5 Color Kit – Wood Stain Kit (25 Grams)

I love these powders! They were for a project that I did to upcycle an old library card catalog cabinet. I had so much fun with this project! I also made a little hook board thing for my sister.I love that these powders can be mixed together to make different colors and you can control how much you mix into your liquid to make a lighter or a darker, deeper, bolder color. I really love experimenting with color!*** Fair WARNING: these are STAINS you're mixing, so they are NOT easy to clean afterwards if you get the stuff on anything at all that you don't want it on***Therefore, I offer this advice right now... because I searched everywhere for this solution:*RUBBING ALCOHOL* WILL REMOVE IT from *most* things, but NOT from a vinyl floor, or at least not from my faux wood vinyl floor.In fact, I still haven't found anything that will remove it from my floor, but I did get it to fade with acetone... However, the acetone quickly started to gum up the surface of the vinyl, and that's what I was afraid of. I had to wipe it off really fast.Bob Vila's website gave bleach as a removal solution. It did try it first. It only faded it a tiny bit. It says to put it on a saturated rag on the spot and cover the spot /rag soaked with bleach with a bowl for no longer than 30 minutes. Sadly, that really did not work for me, but it did completely shred /eat up the rag I used. I fully expected that to happen, wasn't surprised at all. I can't remember now if it offered the option of paper towels or not, but I had a pretty gnarly, funky old rag though, so that's what I used.Just be really, really careful with this stuff and prep your surfaces just like you're going to paint. Whatever you don't want it on should be taped and covered. I did prep, but I just accidentally spilled a little bit when I was taking it from point A to point B.I recommend buying a good size container of rubbing alcohol right along with this stuff and whatever liquid you're going to mix it into. The advantage to this is he will have it on hand if needed, and it's a bonus that it doesn't cost very much.I used MEK to mix the powders with. It seems to be the most recommended, and that advice also comes after doing quite a bit of research.Once mixed, you definitely want to use this in a highly ventilated area and you may want to also wear a mask. I didn't wear a mask because I had good ventilation.Lastly, obviously because it's a stain, you're going to need gloves. Not the thin (medical type) ones either because those will not hold up against the chemicals. The chemicals will win every time and eat them right up. I used dishwashing gloves and they did great. I don't like them much thicker than that because you can't feel what you're doing.I hope this helps. If you do by this you won't be sorry. I still can't get over how awesome my project turned out!

Perfect size powder packets to make a variety of your own colors. Price is great too!

this product works very good at dying things... i 100% know this lol. If you wanted to dye the ever living bajeezis out of wood this is the stuff. But you better be an expert at working with this sort of thing because your going to turn your entire house blue. You ever read or watch that Dr Suess cartoon with the pink spot that when they try to clean it it just spreads and spreads and spreads till the entire world is pink... this stuff is like that. I thought i could be super extra careful, but the smallest drop got out, and then that got on something and that got on something. And your like is it dry yet and you feel it and even though it is dry you get dye on your fingers and touch something else without knowing it. This stuff ruined a bunch of clothes, a carpet, countless other things are blue now. I washed the stained shirt (just some fingerprints on it) and it dyed the whole load blue. I will never let this stuff near my house again, it is cursed. But if you know what your doing go for it.

Finally got a chance to try a few of these dyes out, and Wow! They are much brighter than expected. Still trying to get the mix toned down to my liking. Colors really pop!

I just received the Transol powdered wood dyes in the mail. They showed up very quickly from when I ordered them. When I opened the bags of dyes there was a good bit of moisture in all but the black dye. I am baseing this off of the amount of dye stuck to the sides of the bags. It was not a terrible amount, however it will cost me at least a little of the dye that is unusable unless I rinse the bags. I am using Kleen Strip Painters Solvent (MEK substitute) since it is very hard to find actual MEK. MEK has the highest absorbtion rate for each type of solvent on the chart for the product in most cases. The dye powder mixed extremely easily with the solvent in small glass jars. I used flat wood coffee stirrers to mix the dye so I could check the color as I go. My mixture I am using is about 1/8 tsp dye to 4 oz solvent. The red, blue and black dye has nice color to it. The yellow dye is kind of orange looking to me but I will have to play with some different ratios and maybe it will be a brighter yellow. I did not mix the brown dye as I really only need the primary colors for now. I will let people see my first bowl that I use the Dye on shortly. For the moment I believe that this will work just fine for what I am doing and considering it is the least expensive dye I could find. I did not want to spend lots of money for my first time working with dyes. Eventually I will likely buy high quality dyes for my future projects after I learn enough using the Transol.

These powdered dyes are very concentrated, so a little goes a long way. I bought the kit mainly for the yellow and brown color. The yellow looks like orange in the package, but it is actually a nice, bright, yellow. There's plenty there to experiment with blending colors, or do several projects. I had to turn a piece of beech wood that was a carrot orange, into a yellow/brown hue, and the dye worked very well...

I started trending towards powder products in the shop mostly for the shelf life and this will do the trick for stains. What is awesome is that I can create the color I want and mix it with lacquer if I want to make my own toner without spending a fortune on a brand spray cans that have a shelf life. A very tiny bit goes a long way so this batch will last a very long time. This is mixable with several finishes to create your own color stains. Can't go wrong with this.

I used the dye powder to put a sunburst finish on one of my guitars and I'm pretty freaking happy with the results. I used MEK substitute to mix it with. Dissolves easily and very easy to use just make sure you wear nitrile gloves. I highly recommend it.