Color Compensation

[mysticaxe]

I have my first Warmoth project on order! (A black korina P Bass).  It will be my second assembly (did a superstrat a few years ago with Musikraft parts).  On that guitar, I used an amber finish and TruOil and love that guitar.  This brings me to my question at hand...

I am planning on finishing with TruOil, but I'm thinking of other color options.  I know that TruOil adds a yellow hue as it dries.  For this guitar, I'm thinking I'd like green.  What I am looking for is an online site where I can simulate shadings of different layers to try to understand how I would compensate my initial stain process to account for the color shift after applying TruOil.  Does anyone know of somewhere I can find something?

 

[stratamania]

Welcome to the forum.

I don't know of such a site and would be surprised if one can be found. My best advice would be to test on scrap wood.

 

[Seamas]

Just speaking from the perspective of a graphic designer for 20 years plus an additional decade and a half working in fine art as well as doing woodworking, etc.

A monitor --even when well calibrated will always be slightly off--plus you are very dependent upon the photographer having the right filters and lighting to capture the color.

This is especially true of colors in the middle of the human visual gamut --green is right smack in the middle of that spectrum. A person with normal to good color vision can make out tremendous color variation within the greens.
Very, very difficult to get precise color via the internet.

 

[mysticaxe]

Thanks for the feedback.  I recognize the weakness of my idea, but I think what I'm trying to get out of it is an idea of "how much" I would need to look to start to compensate.  I realize that without the exact piece of wood, results may vary.