Can I Dye Yellow Wax - I Gotsta Know?

[Sentrex]

Can I dye yellow ax any colors other than green or orange?

Brought a blue/yellow Aristocrat back from the dead and the yellow just isn't doing it for me.... but great flow!

Thanks much!!

[Gwen Williams]

You can only dye wax a darker color than it currently has that contains yellow pigment

[Sentrex]

Thanks Gwen - nice to hear from you after reading many of your previous posts while trying to educate myself.

Now I need to get some liquid dye as the local Hobby Lobby only has the "squares".... has anyone had success with this type of dye?

[Shoozie Q]

I have used the dye chips from Peak, you really have to be extra sure all the dye has

melted and blended in well.  I have had a couple with little specks of dye visible and had

to recook the wax.

[VOXul]

I have used Peak Liquid candle dyes, they work excellent. A little goes a loooong way.

[Shoozie Q]

I should have added, with the chips you really want to do it on the stove,  they need a little more heat than the

lamps put out.  And yes the liquid is much handier, blends in fast and in the lamp not on the stove.

[Gwen Williams]

I would order some liquid dye, tons easier to use.

[Sentrex]

You guys rock.

Learning from the trials and tribulations of others is much appreciated.

Gonna take a break from this bastard spreadsheet that I have been crunching all day and order some of the liquid dye.

[Sentrex]

Any suggestions on the color white? I do not see it on the Peak site....

[Gwen Williams]

White is fresh un colored wax, there is no way to create it

[Claude J]

Here is an option

And yes, you need to give that wax/goo a bit more heat than a lamp gives of to blend it well

http://www.ebay.com/itm/320395782348

[Shoozie Q]

I'm sitting here looking at a recently rescued Chinese 52 and wondering if I can get chocolate out of it.  According to theory brown is possible from the three primary colors.  It is currently a bright yellow.  I may try as this lamp was supposed to be filled with Kirk's glitter for my son.  Nothing to loose.

[Claude J]

check out my pics

I did a custom Chocolate color for the 14" DOHO lamp

liquid dye