Id like to stain some red oak to look like a rich dark mahogany. I can get
the color with many coats of modified tung oil wipe off stain but it takes
forever when having to allow to cure in between coats.

Is there a way to get a nice rich translucent red mahogany color with using
a stain build up? Something that brings out the grain of th wood as a stain
would?

Guitar bodies have beautiful dark colors like this usually over maple which
is very lite color. How do they do it?