trs80 wrote:

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


They use a darker stain. G On maple guitars, it's usually a dye
applied with a spray gun.

The good news is that you're using oak! Oak stains wonderfully, there
is no need to try and carefully build color. Find a color you like and
confidently try it on scrap.