Type Of Stain To Use On Back Of The Neck

[IronFlippy]

I'm refinishing my bass and want to stain the back of the neck since it's very pale. I was just wondering which type of stain would be best if I'm going to finish it with a lacquer.

[mikhailgtrski]

What type of wood?

If it's rock maple, it won't accept stain very well at all. You could add a toner (i.e. Colortone stain, etc.) to your first lacquer coats, though.

Mike

[IronFlippy]

::sigh:: I wish I knew what type of wood it was. This might be a long shot, but I'll take a pic of it and post it. It looks like it's maple, but it's an import (anyone ever heard of Suzuki making basses?). It's hard like maple is, and moderately heavy. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to tell you what type of maple it is. What if I were to do a few passes of stain? I have an oil-based stain (Minwax) that looks good on test pieces of a similar color wood. Here's a pic of the grain towards the headstock. There are a few dings in it, but this is the bare wood.

Edited August 5, 2006 by IronFlippy

[Daniel Sorbera]

since it's very pale.

I'm aussuming you just want to amber up the neck a bit? I would spray a toner coat insted of staining the wood. Plus I would either sand away or fill those dings in the neck. They will only look worse once stained/finished.

[Drak]

Either water-based or alcohol-based anilyne dyes are what you're looking for, I would stay away from any oil-based stain unless you're finishing with an oil-based product over top, like Tru-Oil.

[thirdstone]

Either water-based or alcohol-based anilyne dyes are what you're looking for, I would stay away from any oil-based stain unless you're finishing with an oil-based product over top, like Tru-Oil.

Not tru(sic) , tru oil over water based stain works better as the tru oil won,t pull the stain out.

Best result to yellow up the neck if you are going to spray lacquor is to add the stain to the clear lacquor.