thanks to everybody for the outpouring of love and support in my hour of need LOL. I love all the suggestions.
M60 - the dye was alcohol base and they had been hanging in the rack for 36 hours. and the 5 or 6 dozen arrows I have done exactly the same way turned out great. same bottle of 91% alcohol and same can of gasket lacquer, just a different color Rit dye.
Hey Dina - no color bled into the lacquer. I was still in the garage for about 10 - 15 minutes after the last coat of GL and they were a brilliant tangerine color. but 40 or so minutes after that I was greeted with a huge surprise.
the GL does not seem to be cloudy, you can still see the wood grain. but the color sure changed.
no question I'm going to shoot them. I took a couple of the shafts out to the shoot this morning to get the opinion of some of our leading experts. everybody was most impressed, or something like that.
between the shoot this morning, Sunday at the Rooster, and the Super Bowl I did not have a chance to do anything with them today. trying to decide what color feathers, I don't have any hot pink.
here's what they look like right now. tangerine seems to still be slowly fading.