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Offline Nightmarehollow

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X2 colorant
« on: 02/25/19 21:58 UTC »
Thanks for the add , to start with . I'm new to the bait making and I enjoy it much , very addictive . I have searched high and low in the form but just can't find many or hardly any recipes using just X2 color . I know some of y'all use this colorant . Please help a brother out . I have wasted enough plastic .lol

Offline Fishermanbt

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Re: X2 colorant
« Reply #1 on: 02/26/19 04:44 UTC »
Welcome. Could you be a bit more specific in what you’re working on? 

Offline Canga~

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Re: X2 colorant
« Reply #2 on: 02/26/19 06:17 UTC »
i only have a few of the x2 colorants, most of them i have in other colorant lines as well (mostly lureworks, which in most cases i like a little better) the junebug is the best junebug i have used, most others discolor really easily, but the X2 stayed the same shade through multiple reheats the one time i tried it, i used it in hard plastic for to make tubes and craws and both of those molds that i have dont take much to shoot so the ability to reheat more is very appealing in that color, plus 15 drops in 6oz of plastic makes a nice deep dark purple.

i have black, white, red, watermelon brown, green pumpkin green, pumpkinseed, and midnight blue as well, i havent used them all yet but the ones i have used are good stuff.

as far as recipes, i havent mixed them much but as for single color stuff, start with less colorant and add till you like it, if you just dump it in and it gets too dark or thick its much harder to change

Offline Lines

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Re: X2 colorant
« Reply #3 on: 02/26/19 06:30 UTC »
I really don't have any specific recipes for X2, but can say that in most cases it takes much less X2 as other colorants.
Example: 1 drop X2 = 3 drops most any other colorants. I've always had good results using this ratio. Good luck.
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Re: X2 colorant
« Reply #4 on: 02/26/19 08:25 UTC »
Welcome aboard Night.....

As mentioned, the X2 colorants are super strong and go a long way. I have just about all of the X2 colors along with perhaps fifty other colors from other sources and the only color I ever start with that's not a X2 color is Spike-It Chameleon.

Regarding recipes, read thru the color cook book forum and you'll land on plenty of them. Read far enough back and you get to where the X2 colorants were introduced many years ago and the recipes developed since then. At the top of the  "getting started" forum, you'll find color specific information in lets talk color. Right next to the color cook book forum is the "photo gallery" forum where lots and lots of specific color recipes are located. As far as recipes to create the basic colors X2 colorants are sold as, there's a suggested starting, or drop count, chart right in with the ordering information. I'll post this then get a link for this information for you.

Click this link, then scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll have the basic color recipes for the X2 colorants.

https://store.do-itmolds.com/X2-Colorant_p_312.html
« Last Edit: 02/26/19 08:27 UTC by ctom »
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Offline Nightmarehollow

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Re: X2 colorant
« Reply #5 on: 02/26/19 21:55 UTC »
Thanks for all the help . I've learned a lot by just reading different post . Glad to be on board now . Thanks John