Dying barred turkey feathers???

[Jacob Robinson]

I have a bunch of barred feathers i want to dye. If i dye them, will the bars still be visible?????

[Orion]

Yes.  I've used the dyes sold by Great Northern Quiver and Rit dyes.  They both work well.

[snag]

These fletchings are from turkey feathers that I chopped and dyed. The red fletchings are the ones I did. Works good.

[Jacob Robinson]

Ok sounds good. I was just going to use ritt dye. Just didnt want to ruin the feathers.

[reddogge]

The colors are subtle but I like that about dyed feathers.

 

[BowPlinker]

how do you do it with the rit and does it work on regular white true flight type feathers

[longstiks]

If you want to go cheap Kool-Aid works good too.
Denny

[RRock]

BowPlinker, Get the water hot, just short of boiling. Add the Rit dye and a little vinagar. Put the feathers in and let them soak. The longer you let them soak the darker they will get. You don't have to use an entire pack of dye. If your doing about a dozen full length feathers use about 1/4 pack of dye. Works for me.

[reddogge]

I leave them soak a good 20-30 minutes and then rinse with cold water when I take them out.

I just did some white feathers in bright yellow and royal blue and they came out bright, brighter than the natural barred feathers.

[Jacob Robinson]

Sounds good. Thanks for the help! Where can you buy just plain white feathers? i cant find them anywhere!!!!

[reddogge]

I bought mine online on ..........