LisaSimpson
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If someone dyed a mahogany body green and used tung oil to finish it??
What would happen...
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You'd have a green, tung oiled guitar body!~ :toothy12:
The gotcha to what you're saying is the green part.
Mahogany is a really sort of reddish wood. Putting a green dye on it, or a blue dye on it... maybe not so good. Green might go sorta mud on ya and become dark brown in the wood. Blue might be worse. Depends on your wood, and dye to some degree.
Why dontcha call up Warmoth and say "hey, can I get some scraps sent to me?" and be nice to 'em and all... and maybe they'll be good eggs and get you a scrap or two or three to experiment with.
Below you can see an un-named Warmoth customer, experimenting with bright blue dye.
The gotcha to what you're saying is the green part.
Mahogany is a really sort of reddish wood. Putting a green dye on it, or a blue dye on it... maybe not so good. Green might go sorta mud on ya and become dark brown in the wood. Blue might be worse. Depends on your wood, and dye to some degree.
Why dontcha call up Warmoth and say "hey, can I get some scraps sent to me?" and be nice to 'em and all... and maybe they'll be good eggs and get you a scrap or two or three to experiment with.
Below you can see an un-named Warmoth customer, experimenting with bright blue dye.
LisaSimpson
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Ugh...I just want to add a little character to a dark natural finish. Maybe a stripe of orange???
Death by Uberschall
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Are those dyed or transparent finished?Marko said:here is an example of green dye on mahogany.. I believe it has a nitro finish though
( I have one in red myself
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Max said:
Me too.
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The color looks too even to be a dye. I would think a dye would show more of the natural wood grain. :dontknow:Marko said:
LisaSimpson said:
Mahogany tends to be an almost orange wood, more so on the wood they use for the necks. The temptation is to get everything together, so you can begin working on it RIGHT NOW
Since you dont have a pre-conceived plan, may I humbly suggest you find some pictures of what you'd like to end up with, OR... wait till the wood arrives and get some pics of it... and then try to see what might work ok. The pic you had looked a little dark, but really... mahogany tends to be medium to even lightish colored. It might just be the picture
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Dyes are funny things, they don't work quite the same as pigments, often behaving more like light. If you look at a color wheel green is opposite from red. This means adding green dye to a reddish or orange colored wood will cancel out much of the red - it will still be brown, just minus much of the the red tones. This could make your mahogany look more like walnut, or might make it look more like green MDF.
Testing on scrap or inside the cavities is certainly a good idea.
Testing on scrap or inside the cavities is certainly a good idea.
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Unfortunately, there is a pretty wide range of coloration in mahogany, and unless you order something from the Showcase, you won't know what it looks like till you get it. You can get mahogany test boards from places like Woodcraft or their online store, but no guarantee that the mahogany will match the wood on your body very well.
If you want to test green dye on the body, try it on a small flat surface part that you can easily sand back.the range of mahogany coloration; To give you an partial example of check these 2 Firebird bodies:
If you were going to try to dye the body, it would probably work best on mahogany with the lightest coloration available.
What kind of a body are you looking at/do you have one picked out?
If you are wanting to get a look like the green mahogany axe pictured in this thread, I'm pretty sure sure that was filled with black grain filler and shot with transparent green, then gloss.
Another note, if you factor in time/aggravation quotients the $185 Warmoth would charge for a Trans Green finish is a pretty good deal...
If you want to test green dye on the body, try it on a small flat surface part that you can easily sand back.the range of mahogany coloration; To give you an partial example of check these 2 Firebird bodies:
If you were going to try to dye the body, it would probably work best on mahogany with the lightest coloration available.
What kind of a body are you looking at/do you have one picked out?
If you are wanting to get a look like the green mahogany axe pictured in this thread, I'm pretty sure sure that was filled with black grain filler and shot with transparent green, then gloss.
Another note, if you factor in time/aggravation quotients the $185 Warmoth would charge for a Trans Green finish is a pretty good deal...
