Stain Keeps Weeping from Red Oak Table Top
 

I'm making a 40" by 60" table top made from red oak. After staining it with a oil stain the stain keeps weeping back out of the oak. I keep wiping it, but it still keeps coming out. This has been going on for over a week. The oak is below a 6% moisture content. Is there a cure for this?

Stain Keeps Weeping from Red Oak Table Top
 

silver_18038 wrote:
I'm making a 40" by 60" table top made from red oak. After staining
it with a oil stain the stain keeps weeping back out of the oak. I
keep wiping it, but it still keeps coming out. This has been going
on for over a week. The oak is below a 6% moisture content. Is
there a cure for this?

1. Time

2. Don't stain

3. Don't use red oak (it's a sponge)


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Stain Keeps Weeping from Red Oak Table Top
 

"silver_18038" wrote in message
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I'm making a 40" by 60" table top made from red oak. After staining it
with a oil stain the stain keeps weeping back out of the oak. I keep
wiping it, but it still keeps coming out. This has been going on for
over a week. The oak is below a 6% moisture content. Is there a cure
for this?


It must be your stain. I would use thinner to clean off the excess, sand
again, and choose another brand stain.
Good brands are Bartley's, General Finishes, and Zar.

Stain Keeps Weeping from Red Oak Table Top
 

"silver_18038" wrote in message
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I'm making a 40" by 60" table top made from red oak. After staining it
with a oil stain the stain keeps weeping back out of the oak. I keep
wiping it, but it still keeps coming out. This has been going on for
over a week. The oak is below a 6% moisture content. Is there a cure
for this?




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silver_18038

Been there, done that.

Red oak is porous. If you blow on the end of it, air will come out the
other end.

I would guess you liberally applied the stain with a brush and then wiped
the surface. If that's the case, I would guess that the thin stain soaked
into the pores and is now bleeding out. I did that one time and the stain
"freckled" on the wood. I threw the wood away.
If the scenario I described is true, wipe the stain thinly on to the wood
next time and don't let it puddle. You might try a jell stain. I wiped a
water stain on red oak another time with good luck. I think I remember some
one suggesting a thin shellac sealer on the wood prior to staining the wood.
I've never tried it though.

I now use white oak if I want oak, it is not porous like the red oak.

I don't know how to salvage the top you've made. I would wipe it daily.
hoping the entrapped stain dries and quits bleeding out. Good luck. :-)