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SF Slacks Ferret Tiki Socialite Calgary Joined: Oct 02, 2003 Posts: 1396	SF Slacks Ferret Posted posted on Fri, Jul 19, 2013 10:45 AM On 2013-07-16 12:54, ErichTroudt wrote: if you're interested in a more weathered realistic look, get you a bucket of tea or dark soda and soak that rope and netting for a few days. It will stain it darker and make it look not so new.... Great Idea! But I've found that dyeing some new ropes doesn't work so well. Especially with float netting I made from new basketball nets that are made of space-age polymers. So I've actually ended up spray-painting some of my glass float nets with a couple shades of brown/grey enamel paint. The trick to that is to wrap them around a cheap (beach) ball (that you can discard later) so you get the right areas coloured.

On 2013-07-16 12:54, ErichTroudt wrote:
if you're interested in a more weathered realistic look, get you a bucket of tea or dark soda and soak that rope and netting for a few days. It will stain it darker and make it look not so new....

Great Idea! But I've found that dyeing some new ropes doesn't work so well. Especially with float netting I made from new basketball nets that are made of space-age polymers. So I've actually ended up spray-painting some of my glass float nets with a couple shades of brown/grey enamel paint. The trick to that is to wrap them around a cheap (beach) ball (that you can discard later) so you get the right areas coloured.

Post #686505 by Slacks Ferret on Fri, Jul 19, 2013 10:45 AM