Stain is bleeding into Gasket Laquer ?

[Lone Ranger]

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.

[Biathlonman]

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.

[Lone Ranger]

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.

[Grey Taylor]

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

[Kelly]

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.

[Lone Ranger]

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.