Finishing Disaster

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Nate, using an oil base topcoat over the stain will work. Give the stain time to cure and then apply a seal coat of an oil base wipe on poly. After this cures you can either continue with the oil base poly or use the General Finishes poly.

Stain lift-off, such as you are describing, is fairly common. That is why I generally suggest using a seal coat of shellac when topcoating with an oil base poly over an oil base stain application. You could use shellac as a seal coat in this case but I would highly recommend spraying it on since the water base stain will dissolve in the alcohol base of the shellac solution. Putting a seal coat of wipe on oil base poly would be the better approach.

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Scott Bryan is correct. You need to use what is called a spit cut (1/2# cut). this will give you the protection between coats needed to keep from lifting stains/finishes. If you need more information, try these guys.
http://www.shellac.net/index.html

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