The Armour Archive

Things I have learned today while dyeing my thigh-lengtth padded aketon:

1) It takes a lot more water than you think.
2) It takes a lot more dye than you think in order to get a good deep color. I used two boxes of dye-Rite, and I'm starting to think that three would have been better.
3) That much canvas gets _heavy_ when soaked.
4) It takes a great deal of effort to wring and rinse that much canvas.
5) Cloth dye will also stain your bathtub.
6) Unexpected side-effect of standing over a steaming bathtub full of dye: navy blue boogers. Lesson learned: Wear a frickin' mask. I hate to think about what color my lungs are now.

Thus endeth the leson.

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The defining characteristic of fanaticism is the inability to understand why everyone else is not a fanatic.

Ya know a person with a loose version of ethics would have grabbed a couple of 100 yen coins and found a coin-op laundry to accomplish that task.

It's a lot of work being a nice guy isn't it?

Well, I certainly got my exercise today. Have to admit that that I felt a certain attraction to the idea of the coin ops; would have felt bad if I turned somebody's clothes blue, though.

Aketon update:

Found out that some of the clothe on my Frankenstein's aketon must be a poly blend; they wouldn't take the dye. All my patches turned out pretty, though. Sigh.


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The defining characteristic of fanaticism is the inability to understand why everyone else is not a fanatic.