I'm building a small prototype table with a schedule of transtint dye, Seal-A-Cell sealer, gel stain, and top coat. I cannot figure out how to avoid lightening the dye and gel stain on the edges of the legs and top when I sand between coats. It's a really small table (1/2 the size of a TV tray) with tapered legs that I lightly chamfered with a block plane. I redid the dye twice to fix edges, and redid the gel stain twice to cover up the edges. Now I'm thinking of putting the ARM-R-SEAL over the last gel stain coat without sanding,... I sanded really lightly, just making two passes over the wood with the grain, being as careful (perhaps not enough) to not apply pressure at the edges.
What's the trick?