205 replies to this topic

[captpat]

In the test lab, I soaked some Pro V1s in a STRONG solution of turmeric and water for several hours, then let them air dry. This morning, they ARE yellow!!. Field testing today....

[thatboygaule]

cool , any pics?

[BrianMcG]

Sounds great. Put you a black stripe on them and your all set to open a driving range.  

[Kadin 25]

Pics!!

[J13]

I want a pic of your hands lol

[mozgolf]

vindaloo for orange!!

[Sean25rp]

Haha pics would be interesting!

[BNich0622]

WHere are the pics? What is this solution? I remember reading a post a little while back of people doing this to other white golf balls and it looked like it worked pretty well.

[Jasarii]

captpat, on 02 July 2012 - 03:51 AM, said:

In the test lab, I soaked some Pro V1s in a STRONG solution of turmeric and water for several hours, then let them air dry. This morning, they ARE yellow!!. Field testing today....

[Go_Blue!]

why in the he77 would u post this topic without having any pics? seems kind of worthless to me....

[ben w]

OP should have just bought an easter egg dye kit, and his rounds would be FABULOUS!

[M910]

ben w, on 02 July 2012 - 03:38 PM, said:

OP should have just bought an easter egg dye kit, and his rounds would be FABULOUS!

Does that work? This would be awesome to replace my friends golf balls with green ones

[tjumper78]

im guessing it's the ugly kind of yellow.

[captpat]

OP here.....couldn't get a good pic.....tried. It looked helluva like the factory yellow. Solution was a very non scientific method of dump...stir...add more turmeric....stir. Hands were not used!

[inthefairway]

We still want pictures!!!!!!!!!!

[Kadin 25]

Post a bad pic then
!

[ben w]

mugen910, on 02 July 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:

ben w, on 02 July 2012 - 03:38 PM, said:

OP should have just bought an easter egg dye kit, and his rounds would be FABULOUS!

Does that work? This would be awesome to replace my friends golf balls with green ones

I have no idea, but it wouldn't be expensive to find out:

http://www.amazon.co...ter egg dye kit

[Colby327]

ben w, on 03 July 2012 - 09:14 AM, said:

mugen910, on 02 July 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:

ben w, on 02 July 2012 - 03:38 PM, said:

OP should have just bought an easter egg dye kit, and his rounds would be FABULOUS!

Does that work? This would be awesome to replace my friends golf balls with green ones

I have no idea, but it wouldn't be expensive to find out:

http://www.amazon.co...ter egg dye kit

Some WRX'ers with kids must have extra egg dye laying around, as well as a couple old Pro-v's.  I would love to see how they turn out...  Might need to start a new thread, and WITH PICS!

[tjumper78]

i will not show off my transparent z-star xv until the OP shows us the pic of his yellow prov1.

[Cartrydge]

It works...

[captpat]

OP here......still no decent pic. Picture a Pro V1.....then, in your mind, make it the color of a NXT Tour S Yellow, that's it.

[drake47]

Seriously, until you post a pic, this didn't happen.

[flip flappy]

Damn! No pics......kinda of like looking at porn where the view is shoulder and up!

[bigmoneyp]

captpat, on 03 July 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

OP here......still no decent pic. Picture a Pro V1.....then, in your mind, make it the color of a NXT Tour S Yellow, that's it.

Post any picture, any pic will do no matter the quality.

[CTLong]

Need to see how this came out for sure

CTLong

[Crab Daddy]

For those curious about homemade dying. When dying lacrosse heads, we use Rit fabric dye. They make a lemon yellow dye.  If I try it, I'll definitely post pictures.

Duh! Okay, next time I'll watch the video first. Nice to know that it works, lol.

Edited by Crab Daddy, 03 July 2012 - 10:18 PM.

[Jasarii]

I bought some RIT dye this afternoon to try this. I followed the same directions in the video above and soaked them for 15min. I got some "so so" results. I am tinkering with some things now and going to let the soak overnight to see if I get better results on the second test. The first test worked, but was a "light" yellow...no where near the yellow you see from retail yellow balls. I'd be wasting time showing you a pic of the results from first test...but I'll throw a pic up from the second test tomorrow sometime if if comes out better and is worthwhile

[BNich0622]

So much for the potential of this thread.

[typhoonoid]

i was expecting pictures....ptless

[joeshmo]

I tried the turmeric and the results were great. I tried a ProV and  a SoLo and both look the same.
Perfect reproduction of a store bought yellow ball. Not too dark and not too light.
  I did have problems with keeping the spice mixed as it wanted to seperate. My guess I could do
6 dozen balls with 1 bottle of McCormick spice.
  Next test will be to see how the color holds up during play.