How To: Dye a Two-Color Fade Lacrosse Head 

Why would you dedicate the time to make a video of your failures and make it seem like a how to video? Blue and yellow make green... Are you kidding me? Don't make tutorial videos.

I dont know if you'll see this but I just wanted to say thanks, as a fellow lax player this helped me alot

the reason that I like this channel is that you give simple explinations to things that I havnt seen many channels cover

Re watching this so many times, and nice lettuce tom!

dude these lacrosse head dyes rock, i wish i had the time to do that but with black and gold like my team colors for college

That looks sick, thought the orangey color was going to turn out bad but now I might do mine like that

Thanks a lot I used ur hot glue gun dye video and it worked. I am about to use this type of dye for my proton power, but all I wanted to say was thank you and I am making a business out of this

Thank u so much I just did this with my rabil x head with the colors dark purple and dark pink it turned out great this video helped alot so thank u very much.

You're welcome! Glad I could help.

That throat looks great. Dont beat yourself up about it. It looks good.

That ended up being really cool, nice vid!👍

Wow that came out really cool

dude, u are pro at this stuff!!

I just got done doing my head it"s a red faded to a black looks sick thx for the tut

Yay orange and blue Syracuse colors

for test dyes try a coat hanger. I sauderd an ond clutch that I had sitting around and it was to thin/weak so I threw in a bit of a coat hanger and it worked perfectly

For test dyes purchasing a cheap starter head and cutting it into sections may work just to see if your colors are right , the material in the sidewalls would be especially helpful.

That looks awesome

The only downdide to being goalie is a huge head and its hard to dye

You can, but the stainless steel pot I have used in the past has gotten discolored, and I wouldn't use it for cooking. Just boil the water, then pour it in a bucket and add your dye so you don't ruin the pot.

Hey i bout a really cheap head the stx av8 and i cut it up with a sawzall and made it into strips for testdyeing it works great tom

Yes. Always go from light to dark.

Don't listen to the haters, he's just mad that he can't dye like you can

these scratches you are talking about are commonly referred to as "scoopies" you can use sandpaper to scratch them off if you want a clean look, if you don it will come out fine

That is sick! maybe dye white mesh dark green to gold.

It matches your hat!!!

The hotter the water, the more effective the dye is. It doesn't have to boil, but get it hot.

Looks awesome!! 💚💛

Dyeing stick is different from mixing paints and inks because the heads can take dye differently. I had never done blue and yellow before, but I should have known. I am a full-time artist, but I am also a part-time idiot.

green and gold were my grade school's color! haha go irish! xD

The dye will get into the little scratches. You can sand it a little though if you're worried.

OH MY GOSH ITS PACKERS COLORS! YAY

Hey awesome job, your an amazing dyer! Future reference though: the reason your stick turned orange rather than yellow is because you put too much dye in, you only need one pack of rit to make it yellow, head still looks awesome though!

Probably. I'm not sure what the melting point is for nylon polymer, but if the bottom of the pan was really hot, I'm sure things wouldn't turn out well.

Yes, you can!

I prefer the fade.

you can do test dyes with a white plastic spoon or fork

You should try making the fade start where the sidewall bar is.

that looks sick!!!

So used to the beard now, so weird without it

Thank you It was very helpful.

So how many packets should I use?

Yes, that works perfectly.

it was really just the color you picked, golden yellow turns all the heads orange regular yellow is fine. I actually did the same thing with my surgeon because my schools colors are yellow and navy blue and my golden yellow turned orange

That head is sick.

I love ur bids make another one very soon and I'll subscribe:)

You can do test dyes with paper plates.

Thanks for the recommendation, but 1) Why? 2) How do you know that I dye every head I get? 3) Why would you possibly care?

Haha it's funny u made mistakes, but it also adds to the video to show what happens cool video

Then you're fine. it may discolor, but wash it well when you're done, and the next time you dye, heat some water first, and some color may seep out of the steel. Just dump that, and then you're ready to go.

lol, totally failed with colors, still loved final product... win!!!

if you have a broken head you can cut it with a hacksaw into small pieces and even use sidewall holes to tie string and get it out easier since you dont care about getting the holes died just testing the color

It will still dye fine.

i was dieinggg with laughter you are funny

It can ruin the pot. Just heat the water, then pur it in something you don't mind ruining...like a bucket or something. Then add the dye.

putting the head in the water while its burning on the stove warps the head. for fogo's this can be good if you want to turn a stiff head to a flexy head

@tledin can you do a video on how to string heads with a tight channel plz

Try one orange black and yellow it looks cool and are my team colors

Great vid! But when you dye a stick do you take the ball stop off? And were do you get a ball stop?

u culd use 175 g ultra star frisbees for test dyes theyre made of the same kind of plastic and u can get frisbees for less than 10 dollars each

Ted man i got an idea for test dyes, test with PVC pipes it feels the same

A plastic hanger may work to test dye on

NICE JOB definetly gonna try this are u an A's fan cause being from San Francisco i'm a giants fan

Yes, leave it in until you're happy with the color.

Those are my team colours the sherwood park titans👍👌😍

A beat up old scratched head will still dye.

For test dyes just use a really cheap beginner head or a old worthless head cut it into pieces and use each one for different dye combinations

Gold mesh with green shooting strings

you should do red and orange

use it on a shaft that has a similar green to the bottom

the north east is cold in the winter and hot in the summer

Same thing happened to me I did a speckled tan and blue....the blue turned dark green

Tom, I got my 2 boxes of powdered Royal Blue RIT in today!:D Should I only use one pack of it to test? I really wanna get a rich royal without using too much powder. It's a white head, and its going from Royal on the bottom to white in the middle to Royal on the scoop

Thanks

u should get white side wall and try to dye them gold to green

YEA IM FROM CALIFORNIA TOO

Oh and I have another question , does it matter if there are dark stains from dirt on the head and scratches on the scoop when dying and do you remove the ballstop from the head ( I want to dye a proton power)

Red side wall /top strings and green mesh

you should get an east coast mesh and like yellow strings

white heads are the best

I haven't dyed a girls head, but they are made of the same stuff, so it will work the same.

Might be a dumb question but I have never dyed a head before but I have a Black Proton Power and was wondering if there was a way I could dye it to a different color, I have heard you can and some people say you cant but you seem like a pro so I thought I would ask you thanks.

There are other dyes that work, I just don't know what they are.

Thanks, and do you think I should dye the mesh orange or blue?

Any recommendations on how to do this with a goalie head?

After you fade it...could you then use the hot glue method dyeing over top?

I tried dyeing my warrior nemy lyte black with 2 bottles BLACK rit dye and it came out blue... then I tried to dye my STX Eclipse Red with the rit dye and it came out pinkish purple!

loved it where do you get rit dye at a store

If you would have kept going would the green have turned blue? because i have a orange head and wanted to do a fade of blue.

So if you want to make like a Carolina blue you would just keep in for less time? but you could still use the blue you were using?

Have you ever dyed a Girls lacrosse head before, and u think u can a video about it plz. It's up to you

Does the dye stain the sides of the pot? Does it then make it unusable? Hoping to do this one day over the summer.

St Patrick's day head

Sort of a stupid question...but do you take the ball stop off before you dye the head?

thanks i am going to do that with my head would a ligh blue fade to dark work?

What colors would work for a stick if u dont know what college you are going to play for yet? like white and black or white and blue....etc

Where its green you should try to do gold strings then try to switch into green strings where its gold

Cool thanks

Does RIT Dye make any bright neon colors? If not, what do you think would work to make the colors vibrant? Great videos BTW!

For doing test dyies I know i have an old borked head I could cut in to pieces to test dies