stoutman wrote:

But if I had to change the color, say to match an
existing piece, I'd use dye instead of stain.


Huh? Isn't a dye a type of stain? Did you mean to say "dye
instead of pigment"?

I suppose you could look at it that way. But all the cans of stain I've
seen were pigment particles in suspension, so to me "stain" and
"pigment" are synonymous.

The exception that proves the rule is Solar-Lux. The bottle says "dye
based stain" - sort of like "metal based wood" to me :-).

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