I’m toying with the idea of ebonzing wood for some accent trim, instead of dipping into my stock of ebony. I’ve never used aniline dyes to ebonize before, and I am worried about the dye bleeding when I apply an oil/varnish finish to the piece. Since the ebonized trim would be next to a bright yellow wood, it would be really, really bad for any bleeding to occur.
Adding in the trim after oiling the rest of the work is not a good option, since the o/v will interfere with glue up (it would be too hard to mask off the place where the trim goes).
So, my question (which wasn’t answered by an archive search) is will pieces dyed with aniline type dyes bleed when a oil/varnish finish is applied??
thanks in advance,
Paul
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The short answer is "no".
The long answer is let the dye dry thoroughly and test a piece. If necessary you could shellac the dyed piece before final assembly.
Aniline dyes are either water soluable or alcohol soluable. For your use I would think the water soluable dye would be the least likely to bleed or move under a solvent such as naphtha, mineral spirits or other thinners found in oil based finishes.
Lee
I agree with Lee. You could also go to a paint store and see if they have samples of dyed wood and ask them to test it on a small spot for you. Otherwise, Woodcraft and other stores that sell various finishes have a lot of stains, dyes, etc in small containers and you can test it more without wasting a lot of money. If you get the alcohol soluable type, it will dry faster and while the water soluable is drying, you can be testing the various finishes on the dry test piece.
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