I am working up a set of a dozen arrows and I used a red stain for the shafts, and I did my first white crown dip- I am using gasket laquer.
I stained the shafts this morning, and dipped a test shaft this afternoon and I noticed I got some bleed out into my dip tubes from both the red stain and the white crown dip. I followed up with a dozen bare shafts as to try and get some of that color and white out of the tube.
how do I keep this from happening? I did thin the gasket laquer slightly with acetone (not much though) and the stain I used this time is the Fiebings Leather Dye. I don't know how to proceed now, I don't want to contaminate my base gasket laquer, and I wanted these shafts done by this weekend.
would love some help on this- I used the search earlier and didnt find much.
L.R.
Um, let it dry longer. Staining in morning and dipping in afternoon I'm suprised it didn't bleed all over the place. I have best results if I wait at least 24 hours.
i was hopeful that was why, I keep my place nice and cool- hopefully tomorrow they will be good to go~ I was/ am in kind of a panic.
L.R.
When I do stains I find it helpful to go over the stained area with 4/0 synthetic steel wool and then gently wipe the area with a clean, lint free, cloth. I still can get a little bleed into the lacquer but it seems to be greatly reduced.
Letting the stain dry for a good amount of time is also very important.
Guy
Red and green bleed the worst into GL-if using those colors let them dry for 48 hours and sand/wipe clean with tack cloth before dipping in GL.
it was DEFINITELY a time thing. I dipped all the shafts just now with minimal bleeding. I guess I just learned something. I just Have to get these done. thanks for all the responses- you eased my mind!
L.R.