Any pics of honey burst on roasted alder?

[iBurley]

I'm looking to build a hardtail Strat-style guitar and I'm somewhat set on honey burst with parchment plastics, but I'd really like to go for roasted alder. My only concern is potentially how dark it would come out. I'm not opposed to a slightly darker guitar, looking at the example photo of mahogany with honey burst for instance actually looks better to me than the normal non-roasted alder, I just have no concept of how much darker roasted alder is than mahogany, if at all.

If anybody has pictures of honey burst or even other lighter burst finishes on roasted alder so I can compare them to the non-roasted example photos, I would highly appreciate it or any other advice.

 

[Tretgeraet]

@Wolff05 just posted an example of honey burst over roasted swamp ash on thursday in this thread here

 

[iBurley]

For some reason the content filter isn't letting me reply, but I did see that one. My hope is that roasted alder comes out lighter than roasted swamp ash, because that's way darker than the mahogany example.

 

[Tretgeraet]

It's generally hard to predict how transparent finishes on wood turn out, and I imagine it to be especially over these roasted woods.

Here's a link to a guitar in clear over roasted alder and it's VERY dark:
https://unofficialwarmoth.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cuh-huh%E2%80%9D-hybrid-strat-roasted-alder.40412/#post-516872

Also I've seen very different shades of (non-roasted) alder in person, so I imagine there will be different shades of roasted alder, too.

 

[Hodgo]

Also I've seen very different shades of (non-roasted) alder in person, so I imagine there will be different shades of roasted alder, too.

Warmoths roasting (or whoever their supplier is if they do it upstream) seems to be ridiculously consistent compared to some other brands… IYKYK.

 

[JohnnyHardtail]

I would consider using a flame maple laminate on the top. The roasted alder will make the back look brown, so it looks like a clean-line paint job without actually paying for one.

My soloist with roasted alder and trans-amber back finish came out like this:

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