Stain Keeps Weeping from Red Oak Table Top

[silver_18038]

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?

[dadiOH]

1. Time

1. Don't stain

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

[Leon]

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.

[Lowell Holmes]

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. :-)