I had an ornament with a plain look and decided to try dye. The piece had been finished with lacquer . I applied Chestnut stains dye over the lacquer. This dye has shellac about 5% in it. After the dye was dried with heat gun I applied lacquer. Now for the question will this treatment lead to finish failure?

Edited March 20, 20188 yr by Gerald

Lacquer usually contains some alcohol as a co-solvent.  If your dye was alcohol soluble, it should have melted into the top coat of lacquer and sort of formed a two-step toner.  So I don't believe it will be a problem.

If it does not start curling right after you applied it and it did dry, I would say you are okay. Maybe not for decorations outside but hey!!!

Thanks . Had no idea it would burn into the existing. No Curling so I guess I am ok.

You may have just stumbled on to a great idea, Gerald. Certainly worthy of further experimentation. The ornament decoration looks good. Well, so does the ornament.