Hi Greg, that natural finish on the Mahogany looks great.

For a Dark Wine Red colour were you chasing something like this?

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This was achieved with mixing some Color Tone Cherry Red with a deep red fountain pen ink. There are plenty of fountain pen inks to be found on eBay if you go down that path as the supplier I used seems to have gone out of business.