Denatured alcohol or mineral spirits for making stain?

[Patriot54]

I have some color dye from StewMac and I have a can of mineral spirits and denatured alcohol. I've read some resources about how to make the stain but I still don't know what would be the difference between the two solvents.  :help:

edit: This stain will be used on swamp ash. I want the base color (red) to soak into the grain pattern, sand it back, then apply an orange stain over that.

 

[Tonar8352]

Use the denatured alcohol because it will flash off and leave no residue on the surface.
Mineral spirits is a low grade thinner and will leave an oily film on the surface. 

 

[Patriot54]

Use the denatured alcohol because it will flash off and leave no residue on the surface.
Mineral spirits is a low grade thinner and will leave an oily film on the surface.

Thanks - I'll try the alcohol.

What are mineral spirits good for?

 

[Tonar8352]

They are good for thinning oil-based paint or cleaning paintbrushes after they have been used in oil based paints.

Oh and they are good for one other thing. In the old days the union painters thought it was great fun to give a thinner soaked rag to a rookie painter and tell him to put it in his back pocket so he could wipe up any spills or splatters as they went along. It wasn’t long before the thinner soaked through the rookies’ pants and started burning his skin and he was dancing.  Many a gullible young painter went home with a nice strawberry on his hinny!  :laughing3:

Oh the good ol days before you could get sued for having a little fun with the newbies.

 

[Rickgrxbass]

They are good for thinning oil-based paint or cleaning paintbrushes after they have been used in oil based paints.

Oh and they are good for one other thing. In the old days the union painters thought it was great fun to give a thinner soaked rag to a rookie painter and tell him to put it in his back pocket so he could wipe up any spills or splatters as they went along. It wasn’t long before the thinner soaked through the rookies’ pants and started burning his skin and he was dancing.  Many a gullible young painter went home with a nice strawberry on his hinny!  :laughing3:

Oh the good ol days before you get sued for having a little fun with the newbies.

Ha, no joke, that stuff is worse than gasoline on your skin...

/Worst initiation we could ever do at the hospital was telling the interns they had to go to the roof and refuel the helicopter  :doh:

 

[Tipperman]

They are good for thinning oil-based paint or cleaning paintbrushes after they have been used in oil based paints.

Oh and they are good for one other thing. In the old days the union painters thought it was great fun to give a thinner soaked rag to a rookie painter and tell him to put it in his back pocket so he could wipe up any spills or splatters as they went along. It wasn’t long before the thinner soaked through the rookies’ pants and started burning his skin and he was dancing.  Many a gullible young painter went home with a nice strawberry on his hinny!  :laughing3:

Oh the good ol days before you could get sued for having a little fun with the newbies.

My dad did that to me on my 20th birthday when he was showing me about painting cars/houses.  :laughing7: classic.

 

[moobox]

In my country denatured alcohol is called methylated spirits and it has a purple color to it. Will that have an effect on the dye stain? btw is this the Colortone stuff also known as Transtint?