Does dye interfere with wood glue?

[lakkdainen]

I have a few pieces that would be convenient to dye before gluing up. I'm wondering if the water based dye (transfast) will interfere with the glue sticking. Ideally you could mask off the areas to be glued, but dyes seem to seep into the wood and would probably go around the mask.

Since it's just water base, it wouldn't seal the wood like say, an oil base stain, so I'm thinking it would be OK and the glue would still penetrate. Has anyone tried it?

[scmhogg]

Lakk,

I use water based dye a lot, and have never had any glue problems. I use TB II or III. All of the dyed joints were not under much stress as they were mostly boxes and other small stuff.

I am currently making some little dyed boxes from a plan in the 12/07 issue of Woodsmith. The article says, "you might want to tape the ends. . .to avoid getting dye on them. The dye could prevent the glue from bonding properly."

I did not tape. I tried to limit the dye on the glue surfaces. Some time ago, when I tried to tape, the dye got underneath anyway.

Steve

[lakkdainen]

Thanks. This is for an end table, which is basically a form of cabinet. The plan is to use TBII glue and pocket screws. I think I'll go ahead and try it unless anyone else objects. Theoretically, the pocket screws by themselves should be strong enough.

[cgallery]

I agree with Steve, go for it.

[Jeffrey Schronce]

I do it all the time with Transtint with no ill effects on glue up using TB II or III.