How to Make Black Lume

[Sporkboy]

There isn’t much to this and it is derivative of an old forum post, but I am adding some images and a few refinements of my own. If you are interested in the genesis of the technique I am using, you can check (https://forum.replica-watch.info/forum/ ... y-findings) for the original forum post.

Lume + Black Printer Toner = Black Lume Powder

That is basically it, but there are always details that need to be nailed for it to work. Please note that this is still a work in progress, but the results were exciting enough to share.

1. Start with a small amount of lume powder.
2. Add very small amounts of toner (I used a toothpick) and mix the powders together.
3. Keep adding toner until it is a medium gray. You need a color that, when mixed with your binder, will end up just being black. I guess, very nearly black is the color you are going for. Too much and it kills the lume power.

Once you have that, you can mix a small amount and give your watch hands a little stealth lume. The example here was using the lighter gray powder.

Here we have (L to R) toner, dark gray, medium gray and straight green lume from www.culturehustle.com.

With the lights dimmed low you can clearly see the difference in light emitting properties of the different powders.

[watchpalooza]

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There isn’t much to this and it is derivative of an old forum post, but I am adding some images and a few refinements of my own. If you are interested in the genesis of the technique I am using, you can check (https://forum.replica-watch.info/forum/ ... y-findings) for the original forum post.

Lume + Black Printer Toner = Black Lume Powder

That is basically it, but there are always details that need to be nailed for it to work. Please note that this is still a work in progress, but the results were exciting enough to share.

1. Start with a small amount of lume powder.
2. Add very small amounts of toner (I used a toothpick) and mix the powders together.
3. Keep adding toner until it is a medium gray. You need a color that, when mixed with your binder, will end up just being black. I guess, very nearly black is the color you are going for. Too much and it kills the lume power.

Once you have that, you can mix a small amount and give your watch hands a little stealth lume. The example here was using the lighter gray powder.
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Here we have (L to R) toner, dark gray, medium gray and straight green lume from www.culturehustle.com.
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With the lights dimmed low you can clearly see the difference in light emitting properties of the different powders.
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That's just cool.

[AndroidIsAwesome]

That's pretty cool. What if you took a plastic case watch like a marathon or luminox etc and painted the entire thing in this? So it looks like black resin case but at night it glows lol

[Sporkboy]

That's pretty cool. What if you took a plastic case watch like a marathon or luminox etc and painted the entire thing in this? So it looks like black resin case but at night it glows lol

I think that the binder would flake off. I would have to scratch the case to hell to get it to stick, so probably not something you would want to do to a nicer field quartz like you mention. I do have a castoff resin Timex case though, so I could try it out since I will be mixing some of this up soon anyway...

The resin does cure shiny, so you would lose some of that non-reflective resin field watch goodness. I think that I can get a matte version of it (UV-cure nail polish topcoat matte?), but that isn’t something I have on hand.