dying a bow

[Carey]

My daughter wants a blue riser on the bow I'm making her. How do I keep the dye on the riser from bleeding into the laminations from the limbs.

[Murkar]

In Guitar making they use pinstripe automotive tape to cover the edge while they spray or wipe on a water/alcohol soluble dye. You might try something similar (although I've not tried it on a bow). That creates a fake binding edge of un-dyed wood around the edge...but sometimes it bleeds I think and needs to be sanded back just enough to remove the dye.

[vth0kie12]

i asked the same question awhile back and most told me that it could be done but its very hard to do without it bleeding, but there were a few people that posted pics that had pulled it off.

 they also said the glue line may keep it from bleeding over onto the other pieces of wood, but i was going to have to use the smallest paint brush (like a small craft brush)