ColorToneConcentrated Liquid Stain for Stringed Instruments, Black

Stewmac has the best quality products. This stain works great, even for a first time user. The colors are bright and vibrant. You can buy cheaper but you get what you pay for in most cases

I decided to refinish a 50 year old rifle that my mother gifted to my father in the 60's. It is to be a family heirloom piece for my grandchildren. This mahogany color was perfect for my application. I'm very happy with the results.

Stained a really bright rosewood fretboard and it looks great. After a week of drying, there has been some rub off onto the fingers. I'm thinking that may dissipate over time, we'll see. Might just need more time for a final opinion. So far, so good.

Great color. Easy to mix and apply. Making this ukulele for the granddaughter in her favorite color. I like the color so much that I am going to stain an electric guitar for myself with it.

Good dye, but small quantity. Mohawk NGR is a better value. Using it for guitars may be okay, but anything needing larger quantities is limited.

I used this stain for a refinish on a cheap Stratocaster neck for a build I was working on. I achieved very good results using around 10 drops into some Denatured Alcohol. One thing I found out is you need to make sure the project your working on is sanded completely down to bare wood. I was staining a neck that had a light coat of poly and I ended up with a couple spots the stain didn’t take. All in all it was easy to work with and I got the results I wanted. Is it overpriced? Yes. But Stew Mac makes good products.

This is a very good quality of Dye. I used it for refinishing a rifle stock. Performed as needed with no complaints. The only drawback for me was the high price for the Dye. This is not the dealers fault as they are equal to everywhere else that sells the product. I think is the manufacturers fault. I think ColoTone folks would benefit more by lowering the price. They would sell more if the price was not so expensive.

This does give the correct color which can be changed by dye to liquid ratio. It isn’t easy to apply and took some figuring out even after watching some videos. I was in the process of returning it but found ways to correct blotching, streaking etc.The small bottle will go along way and I suspect work for a huge number of guitar necks (far more than I ever expect to use it on). I wish they made a smaller bottle as I don’t need this quantity. The cost and mail cost is very high. As for returning it, I did notice even though Stewmac had accepted my return they stated the item had to be returned in original condition. Well how do you do that if you tried it and you found it didn’t do what you expected it to. I guess that is a way to put people returning items that have been opened.In future I will look elsewhere and already found very similar dyes at a far better cost.