I built a horn a while back that came out real nice. I made an error in that I glued and tacked in the cap prior to staining it. I masked off the horn and stained the wooden cap, but the stain bled through the wood and into the horn. I tried lightly sanding the horn where it bled through, but with little success. So I said to heck with it and just applied the laurel mountain forge stain to the whole horn, it came out really nice and I got a lot of compliments on it. the problem is I had my leather possibilities bag resting on top of the horn on the wall, and where the leather had remained in contact with the horn, it had sapped the color out to a lighter, murkey shade of brown. I am asking you because I imagine with your screen name, you are the horn guru: did the contact with the leather cause the stain to get sapped away, or could it have been caused by something else, and/or is there anything I could have applied over the stain to prevent this from happening? I can remove being outside from the equation because I never took it outside because I carved a nice pointed stopper for it that matches the contour of the horn, and somebody pointed out to me that if I were to fall as I am prone to do that I would risk goring myself with my own horn. The possibilities bad hasn't been moved either for a bunch of years because I use a daypack for the first few days and then I say forget this weight and it is just boots and a rifle from there on out. I know a modern rubber limbsaver will suck the stain out of a wood stock. thank you
