Disc Dying Season is Here...

It's 2016 and that means only one thing...

Time to dye the trophy discs for club events. First up is the Betty Queen Open. Pretty simple design and easy to do.

I didn't want to waste the basket cut outs from the trophy discs so I took them and stuck them on a clear 150 Champ Sidewinder and dyed it orange.

BQO Trophy Discs

If you are looking to start hosting disc golf tournaments and are wondering what trophies I can afford. This is a great way to go.

My friend John is hosting the Betty Queen Open II. The most economical trophies are custom dyed discs.

I designed the art for John last year. This year he gave me 10 discs from his extra disc stash that every long time player collects. Golf discs that you will never use or will ever trade because no on throws these molds anymore.

Why not use those discs as custom trophies?

Last year I hand cut the masks but this year I used my Sihloette plotter and was able to cut all 10 masks in about 30 minutes.

 Another hour or so to weed them and put them on the discs. That cut the process down to what it seemed like nothing at all.

Set up my dye and while one was cooking in the pot I was getting the other one ready. Then using hot water to help remove the masks as others were in the dye. It took about 5 hours to get them all dyed.

Even if all the dyes were the same it didn't take me long at all to get 10 trophies done and they turned out great.

I highly recommend learning how to do this if you are looking for an alternative to tournament trophies.

Trophy Time...

The 2015 disc golf season is coming up. I have about 15 trophy discs to do for club events.

I decided to dye my new 150 Star-lite Boss with the Greendale Community College. I've always been a Human being at heart.

Six Seasons and a Movie....

Lost Another One...

Last week I was doing open field practice and I lost my Eddie "Killers" dye. This is the second one I have lost and this time in an open field. It wouldn't be so bad except they take about 12 hours to cut out.

But they look so sweet when they are done well...

Maybe I can hold on to this one a little longer.

I also did an easier dye on my newest addition to my bag. A Discraft Zombee with a Walter Heisenberg dye. With a little play on words...

I aslo did the last of my disc golf girl dyes for a women's club out in Washington state. It will be the 1st place prize for their league this year.

This makes an even 10 of these dyes done and that will be the last one.

Doin' a dye, dye, dye & dye...

I did a a Disc Golf Girl dye for a friend a few months ago and I posted a pic of it and a friend down Newport News way wanted me to do a dye like it for her. It seemed to be a super popular design with the ladies.

So I put forth the proposition on a women's disc golf FB page:

If you send me a champion disc and a self addressed postage paid envelope for the return I would do 5 dyes for the first five that asked.

Needles to say the response was quick.

All together I ended up doing seven dyes.

Here's the interesting part of my story...

I met these women randomly on a women's disc golf Facebook page. I finished the dyes going to the girls that live in Orlando, Florida. I grew up in Orlando, worked at Disney for about 15 years and moved to Virginia in 2000. I looked at the address on the return postage mailer she sent me with the discs and she lives about 200 yards down the same street I grew up in. Seeing that address kinda freaked me out a little. Next time I visit there I'll have to look them up to play a round.

Latest Disc Dye...

I got my ROC 3 in and it really fits my throw well. It was time to drop a little ink on it. I went with another movie theme. I went with John Goodman's charachter from "The Big Lebowski" Walter Sobchak.

It was a pretty easy cut out and the flat ROC 3 shape made it a breeze to dye. I dropped a little red dye on the glasses for a nice touch. 

New Putter Dye...

It's been a while since I have dyed any new plastic. I got some new Star Dart putters. I wanted to stay with Keep Calm theme but make it different.

This is what I came up with...

Nothing is more aggravating than putting low and hitting the basket. Especially when it's a birdie putt.

The Season is Over...

Winter is finally setting in. I'm still playing but the tournament season is done for 2012. It had been more than 20 years since I had played in tournaments. Bowling Green Open in 1994 and not much has changed.

I played in 7 events this year and finished at the bottom or dead last in my division 6 times. The only exception was the Battlefield Open in Richmond where I finished 12th out of 26 players in intermediate. That was a bid day for me. It was the first time I had ever finished in the prizes in a PDGA sanctioned event. My prize? Three Crystal Z Buzzzes.

My worst tournament had to have been the last two. In Advanced Masters at the Winchester IFO I was had a terrible first round but the second round was going much better and with 2 holes left I was beating my morning round by 5 strokes. Unfortunately for me I had a 6 & 4 to finished the round and finished with the exact same score. I finished last and the kicker was a real nice guy who has been only playing for about a year and in his first tournament finished ahead of me because of the end of the round blow up.

The exact same thing happened again last weekend at the Fall Colors at Newport News DGC. I had an average morning round (I was still in last place) But my afternoon round was going so much better until with 4 holes left I decided to fuck it all up and finish with the same score as my morning round and put a choke hold on that last position.

I have decided that next year I am going to be in the Advanced Grand Masters division and will be semi-retired from tournaments and play in local tournamnets only. I can finish last locally. I don't need to drive 150-200 miles to finish last anymore.

On a better note I finished my latest dye last night. I have been wanting to do this one for a long time...

All Hail the Disc!

I make no bones about my political ideals. I also believe that President Obama is one of those once in a lifetime historical figures that is at the right place, at the right time. I had been wanting to do an Obama dye for a long time and when I got my hands on a Glow Leopard I didn't waste any time.

The red got under the mask and messed up the blue a little but some of the guys that have seen it say it's a cool effect. Leopards are my favorite discs but I haven't decided if I'm going to put this one in my bag  or hang it on the wall. I might try it again and if I can keep the colors from bleeding I'll hang that one up.

Bored at work = evental disc dye

A few nights ago I was bored at work and started tinkering around with the Spotsy DGC logo to see if I could update it.

This is what I ended up with...

I think I did okay. Later that night I figured it would make a pretty good disc dye and after about an hour of cutting I ended up with this on my old 166 Discraft Glide....

It turned out a lot better than I thought it would considering it was a beat up disc. There were some bleeds but not too bad. The outer edge is not as dark as it looks in the pic.

Hawk Hollow Open

Well it's that time of year again. Time for the Hawk Hollow Open AM & Pro tournaments. I thought about playing in the AM event this year but decided that it would be easier on my  ankles to just help out the TD and shoot some pics of the action.

One thing I was able to do was dye the tourney trophy discs. The first one I did was for the Hot Pepper eating contest that is held during the Pro weekend. John Biscoe grows them on his farm so they are fresh and juicy. These guys have to eat several varieties of hot peppers from Jalapenos to the Moruga Scorpion. I had to look that one up on Wikipedia and according to that source....

"The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (Capsicum chinense), endemic to the district of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the world's hottest Chili pepper cultivar. The New Mexico State University's Chili Pepper Institute has identified the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as the newest hottest chili pepper in the world as of February 2012.^[1][2] According to the New Mexico State University Chile Institute, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion ranks as high as 2,009,231 SHU on the Scoville scale, making it the hottest chili pepper in the world to date.^[3] "

Whoever wins will get this disc...

I also did the division winners for this weekends AM event...

  
 

New Improved Putter

Altitude DG is going out of business and all of their plastic is 1/2 price. I was able to find an orange 165 Champion Dart and decided to try and improve my first putter dye.

This could be my best dye as far as cutting the mask clean and very minimum bleeds.

Do a Little Dye, Play a Little Golf

I've been sick with a cold all week. It's been especially sucky considering this week the heat of Summer has been broken by the coming fall. I couldn't resist playing some morning rounds.

Today I woke up late and got started on finishing up my latest dye for a friend that is starting her disc golf journeys.

I ripped off the the girl from Greenday's "Kerplunk" album to pull this one off.

Afternoon was looking sweet for a round so I headed out to Loriella and as I walked up to the first tee Chris, his brother Dave, Randy and their friends were there so we played teams. 

This was one of my best rounds ever. Parked birdie shots on #1, #2 & #7. Hit a 75' laser shot on #8 for birdie. Hit several 30'-40' putts and after 16 we were tied with Randy's team at 3 under.

Randy Parked the tee shot and I was about 30' out and hit the putt to keep up at -4. 

Randy threw another good tee shot on 18 and was about 15' out. Dave's drive had us out about 25'. Dave missed but I was able to hit the putt to keep us at 5 under.

The tie breaker was a tee shot from 18's basket to #1's basket and again Randy teed up a great shot. My partner Dave went long & I wasn't too bad about 20' out but we both missed the putt and Randy was able to put it away.

But it was a great round for me. A lot of great drives, some great upshots & really good putting.

Multi-Color 2nd Attempt

My new 134 Champion Blizzard Katana needed a samurai theme so I went to my favorite subject. Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie T. Head.

I figured with my Champion Cobra if I called you a loser but Mickey had a smile that would be OK.

Multi-Color Disc Dyes

It's been a while since I have posted anything. I did play in two tournaments. Did about the usual and didn't get in the prizes but I had fun.

The DGCR Hawk Hollow meet is coming up in 2 weeks and my contribution to the prize pool was to dye the trophy discs for Jerry. these were my first attempt at doing multiple colors.

They didn't turn out too bad for a first multi-color attempt. 

Latest Dye...

I had one disc left in my back pack that didn't have any ink on it so I began searching for an idea. Then I remembered a great graphic by Steve "Espo" Powers. It's everything I like about graphics. It's simple, clean and has a great message.

I was able to get clean straight lies by using a steel strait edge on the text. It turned out really well and only bled a little near the edge where the blizzard plastic has texture.

Bored = Dye Some Plastic...

Played a round at Loriella this morning and by noon it was 105° so it was time to go home and cool off. Before you know it I was bored and started cutting some masks to dye some plastic.

The first one dye was my new 145 Champion Blizzard Krait. As a teenager in the 70's Cheech n' Chong were everywhere and some of my favorite movies. (The comedy albums were awesome too)

My next dye was fairly easy. I cut out a rip-off of the Kiss Army patch and put it on one of my Crystal Buzzz discs that I won last month. The Battlefield Stamp is still visible but it didn't bleed the dye too much.

Austin's Trophy Disc

Austin is a great kid and an awesome disc golf player. At the Battlefield Open he came from behind in the second round to win the Advanced division. The second round was from the long tees and he managed to throw a 1000+ rated round.

When he saw my trophy dye and asked if I would do the same for one of the discs he won for his victory. He picked a green Crystal Z Nuke.

It took me a few hours to cut it out and I dyed it this morning. It was an incredible 2 rounds of golf and since no trophies were given out this will make a great wall hanger.