Hello from the Deep South.

[wazkelly]

Hard to get Turquoise colour and this is pretty close but leaning more towards aqua.

Ended up using Cyan Ink Jet ink diluted down, 4 parts water to 1 part ink from memory and with using Tru Oil as the top coat added a slight greenish tinge from the natural light amber tones inherent in TO. Clear poly or acrylic may have kept more of the aqua look but had plenty of TO at the time that needed to be used.

[Hobastard]

Very close to what I want, maybe a touch brighter. Would that mean less ink?

[wazkelly]

Yeah, just a bit more water to dilute things a smidge.

These were the colour test strips with one coat of TO....


Far RHS shot is 1 part ink to 5 parts water.

[Hobastard]

The red in the timber takes away a lot of the blue, is it possible to bleach or limewash the timber first. Maybe fill first so you don't lose the grain. Even maybe a red fill to pop that grain a little more...
Dunno, I'm new at this...

[wazkelly]

What timber do you intend to use?

Above samples were done on standard green shed pine plywood which is closest match to basswood. Ash & Alder are different colours where Ash can display a slight pinkish tinge and Alder has a bit more of a red hue.

Experimenting on pine helps to differentiate the different sample strengths and when moving on to the actual timber body best to apply a small bit of colour in the neck pocket rout or PUP routs being areas that will be covered up to see how it looks and what adjustments might need to be made to the brew.

On my 5 builds only one has come out close to what I was after and that was the Red J Bass but still had to make adjustments on the run where 2nd stain coat needed to be a fraction deeper in colour. Sometimes the unexpected surprises grow on you and has others commenting how good it looks when in fact it was nothing like how you may have envisaged. Practice makes a huge difference and helps you to understand what ratios of each part affects the end result.