On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:03:23 GMT, "trs80" wrote:

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?

I just tried a sample of General Finishes 'Mahogany' oil stain on
maple and it got pretty darn dark red with one coat. Oak is still
going to look like dark red stained oak no matter what you do to it
though.


-Leuf