Astracaster First Build FS-1

[Simon Barden]

The stain is all for effect. If it's got the depth of colour you want, you've put enough stain on.

When staining there will come a point when you can add more stain but the wood won't get any darker (at least not without moving to a darker stain). But for the back, as you've lightened the stain in places, you haven't reached that stage yet.

Just view the stain as a tool, say like a scalpel. You can make a shallow cut or a deep cut with it, but you only apply enough pressure to achieve the depth of cut you want.

Have you decided on what colour you want to stain the top? You were still trying to decide what colour, quite a few posts back before you switched to posting about the back.

You can do a bit of light sanding on the top, but you only really get one go at it. But you really shouldn't need to sand it apart from a very light run over to remove any loose fibres.

[Drashkum]

The stain is all for effect. If it's got the depth of colour you want, you've put enough stain on.

When staining there will come a point when you can add more stain but the wood won't get any darker (at least not without moving to a darker stain). But for the back, as you've lightened the stain in places, you haven't reached that stage yet.

Just view the stain as a tool, say like a scalpel. You can make a shallow cut or a deep cut with it, but you only apply enough pressure to achieve the depth of cut you want.

Have you decided on what colour you want to stain the top? You were still trying to decide what colour, quite a few posts back before you switched to posting about the back.

You can do a bit of light sanding on the top, but you only really get one go at it. But you really shouldn't need to sand it apart from a very light run over to remove any loose fibres.

Thank you @Simon Barden.

Yes. I switched over to staining the back so that i could get some practice on staining the real body before Staining the veneer. I thought even if it goes wrong it would be only at the back and not at the front.

I have sort of zeroed in on the colour. It's mostly going to be this Purplish pink



Or it could be olive green which i get by staining green and then yellow on it which I had posted earlier

I am going to try to lightly base stain the veneer with very diluted black just 1 pass and then sand very light and then use either of these colour.

Olive green has a few advantages

All black, green and yellow are alcohol based stains so i can get a lighter shade by using a thinner to pull out the stain if I want if the stain is darker. Also it didn't raise the grain as it was all alcohol based.

The purplish pink is all water based stain. It's all fountain pen inks.

To achieve this colour I need to dilute 1 part Violet with 4 parts of water and stain the wood and then stain the pink on top of it

I tried to Dilute them with thinner yesterday but they didn't mix well in thinner and started to precipitate. It gets diluted in water very well.

I am afraid that too much water will cause veneer to bubble up. And if stain is darker I may have to use water to blend them

And also since its waterbased it raised the grain on scrap wood that i stained. If it does the same on veneer again I have a risk of sand through

So i am trying to source The same colour as single stain in toner based stain. There is a leather stain maker here who can do custom alcohol based stain if given a hex colour code. I am in talks with him

https://cratly.com/products/custom-l...e-color-500-ml

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