stained the wrong part?! will mineral spirits help?!

So i have this mixed body telecaster. It consist of mahogany and curled maple stripes... I masked off the stripes w/ blue painters tape...but somehow the stain went underneath and got to some areas on the edge of the stripe...
I tried to sand it out, but it only faded... Will mineral spirits make it come out?!
WHAT will help me?

Let me know! THANKS!:mad::confused:

Been there, done that. White spirits may fade it a little, iso-propanol may also lift some of it, they seem to work whilst the dye is wet. If all else fails try wood bleach and start again. Actually the bleach will not only remove the dye but accentuate the grain, it will however lighten the wood too.

if the stain is already dried..should i try heating it up to loosen molecules then try what you just told me? and thanks about the suggestion of wood bleach. That will be my final option if all fails.

Heating may swell the wood grain (it's a method to remove dents). I don't think chemical dyes break down with the kind of heat you can apply to wood. Have you tried soap and water? - seriously, that stuff gets inks stains out of shirts.

As the body is unfinished, I would go straight in with the wood bleach.

It will probably completely remove the dye very quickly and exaggerate the difference between the mahogany and the maple.

Wood bleach lightens the light parts of the wood more than it does the dark bits, it's quite a nice effect and will probably achieve what you were trying to do with the dye in the first place.

This one is iroko (teak), it was poly-varnished, it has been stripped, dyed, oiled, stripped, bleached and teak-oiled again-

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I couldnt find any wood bleach so I used household bleach and peroxide. Worked ok but had apply it a couple of times to get what I was after.

You didn't say what kind of stain it was. If it was dye just use the solvent - water, alcohol, lacquer thinner. If it was pigment in a binder then you need to think of it as a thin coat of varnish that will cure and harden - in which case you need a stripper to lift it out.

If you're doing stripes, I'd suggest you seal the wood then put the color in the topcoat, which should behave better with tape.

Glad it worked.

I think wood bleach is a more concentrated form of household with a different wetting agent (soap). It smells a bit different and is alleged to penetrate better and to not raise the grain so much.