@quickparts I used @RITdye to tint your prototypes

Although my home 3-d printer is pretty cool for develop quick, one off parts, great for industrial design and quick feedback, it's not really great for making photograph quality prototypes.

I've worked with quickparts.com before, and I knew they had great capability for turning around show quality parts in a few days. (What they do is print the part on their machine using a different material then I have at home, then hand sand and polish it to get rid of layer lines.)

Unfortunately, they didn't have the capability to print parts in the colors I wanted. I remembered a trick I used when I played lacrosse as a kid, using RIT clothing dye to color the plastic sticks. Basically, I took the samples from Quickparts, cut them up into test pieces, and ran two tests with red dye and blue dye.

You can see the before, during, and after pictures below. When the actual prototype comes in, I'll be be ready to stain it the color I want.