Quote Originally Posted by Joe Piler View Post
So I'm having some trouble achieving the bright green that o want for a stain, I picked up some acrylic paint at a hobby store. Currently running tests with this. Anyone have any experience with it
Hi Joe, I am in the midst of doing a Tele and used ink jet printer ink, the Cyan Blue one and it is quite bright. I also have a spare Yellow cartridge tank that was nearly used as a tint on the neck.

My point is, why not play around with ink jet inks to mix up a suitable blend as blue and yellow make green. For my Tele I used a mix of 1 part ink to 1 part water but this was after using a couple of eye droppers and many small containers to mix up various test sample ratios that were then applied to a piece of timber to figure out what looked best. Also did the same on my J Bass using Color Tone Cherry Red mixed with some Red fountain pen ink to get a really vivid translucent toffee apple red as it is extremely hard finding the right colour off the shelf for many guitar finishes.

Considered craft type acrylic paint but was worried it would block out the grain as it is meant to be used as a cover not as a tint or stain.