LowFatZ
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Hi All-
First post ever....hang in there.
I have read here that Swamp Ash doesn't like oil stains but the last relevant post is from 2017. Any new advise floating around out there?
Here's my two cents so far.......
I have a swamp ash Diamondback bass body and a roasted maple neck (Warmoth headstock). I'm a hippie so I'm trying to use Osmo Oils Stains and /or Wood Wax finishes (very natural stuff) to get to a yellow-brown-black burst thing going. I'm also hard headed which is why I didn't just let Warmoth paint it the way I wanted. ???
What I'm finding is that the Osmo Oil Stains only color the grain. It seems that the Samp Ash pores don't hang on to the color. The attached picture shows two samples, one with nothing and one with three coats of the Osmo Oil Stain Cognac 3543. Yikes!
Osmo makes a line of Wood Wax finishes that they call "Intensive Colors." Those finishes are "high solids." The "Intensive Color" Wood Wax finishes do a great job on Swamp Ash (sorry no pictures yet). Osmo sells both Black 3169 and Yellow 3125 I the "Intensive Colors" but not brown. I'm going to try to mix the Grey/Beige 3132 and the Red 3104 to get a bourbony brown color.
If anyone out there has any advise, I'd be happy to hear it.
Thanks in advance.
First post ever....hang in there.
I have read here that Swamp Ash doesn't like oil stains but the last relevant post is from 2017. Any new advise floating around out there?
Here's my two cents so far.......
I have a swamp ash Diamondback bass body and a roasted maple neck (Warmoth headstock). I'm a hippie so I'm trying to use Osmo Oils Stains and /or Wood Wax finishes (very natural stuff) to get to a yellow-brown-black burst thing going. I'm also hard headed which is why I didn't just let Warmoth paint it the way I wanted. ???
What I'm finding is that the Osmo Oil Stains only color the grain. It seems that the Samp Ash pores don't hang on to the color. The attached picture shows two samples, one with nothing and one with three coats of the Osmo Oil Stain Cognac 3543. Yikes!
Osmo makes a line of Wood Wax finishes that they call "Intensive Colors." Those finishes are "high solids." The "Intensive Color" Wood Wax finishes do a great job on Swamp Ash (sorry no pictures yet). Osmo sells both Black 3169 and Yellow 3125 I the "Intensive Colors" but not brown. I'm going to try to mix the Grey/Beige 3132 and the Red 3104 to get a bourbony brown color.
If anyone out there has any advise, I'd be happy to hear it.
Thanks in advance.