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ColorTone Liquid Stains


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Make wood grain come alive!
Authentic traditional guitar finishes, spectacular sunbursts, and head-turning modern custom hues are tough to create off the hardware store shelf. ColorTone® liquid stains are the luthier's answer. They're accurate and authentic stringed instrument colors, as researched and specified by our own guitar finishing experts—not the generic furniture colors you'll find at other suppliers.

These concentrated grain-enhancing stains are economical; a little goes a long way. Reduce them with alcohol or water to give bare wood beautiful fade-resistant color, without hiding the grain. They're versatile, too. For applying transparent color-tinted coats, ColorTone stains can be mixed directly into virtually any finish: nitrocellulose lacquer, shellac, waterbase finishes, and catalyzed varnishes or lacquers.

Available in 2-ounce bottles, in the most popular stringed instrument colors. SAVE when you order the set of all ten!

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ColorTone Liquid Stains
 
  Item# Description In stock Price Quantity
5029 Set of all 10 colors SAVE $11.10 Yes
$183.80

5032 Red mahogany Yes
$19.49

5033 Medium brown Yes
$19.49

5034 Tobacco brown Yes
$19.49

5037 Lemon yellow Yes
$19.49

5038 Cherry red Yes
$19.49

5039 Blue Yes
$19.49

5040 Black Yes
$19.49

5041 Bright green Yes
$19.49

5042 Orange Yes
$19.49

5030 Vintage amber Yes
$19.49


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ColorTone liquid stains are lightfast metal-complex dyes that can be mixed for practically any desired intensity. Unlike off-the-shelf hardware store stains, they're formulated for guitar finishing. One 2-ounce bottle makes two quarts of stain at normal concentration. Because they're liquids, they can be measured precisely for critical color matching—a plus for refinishing and touchup work. (See our handy stain mixing cups and pipettes.)

Questions about finishing? Look here first:
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ColorTone Liquid Stains
ColorTone Liquid Stains
 
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5 7-13-2011
Great stains and colors

Have used these for years on just about every project I've worked on. I can get a perfect vintage tint for necks using a couple of different colors from this range and quite often use them added to white nitro for custom colors, fantastic product.

Bravewood Guitars  Cornwall, UK Read my reviews (3)
5 7-10-2011
Great Choice for any project.

Works great. mixes with anything. One bottle goes a long way.

Goodson Guitars  Odessa, Tx Read my reviews (19)
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5 7-08-2011
Vintage T-Bird

I recently had the honor of refinishing the neck of a 1964 Thunderbird bass. Needed to re-tobacco the thing and the Colortone Stain matched perfectly!!! I also used StewMac's Seagrave Lacquer and everything went on better than I expected... great stuff!!

Billy Stephens  Fountain Valley, CA. Read my reviews (15)
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4 7-08-2011
Nice Stains!

I bought the vintage amber stain to add to Formbey's tung oil. I applied it to a sanded maple Strat neck. I put on coats of stained tung oil until I got the depth of color I was looking for. Worked great. To be picky, it's a bit on the yellow side of amber. Maybe a drop of orange or brown would help... next time.

JT McGuire  Los Angeles Read my reviews (3)
4 6-15-2011
Good product !

Very good dye ... easy to use and excellent results.

Good product  Valencia, Spain
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5 6-08-2011
love it

i love this stuff. it does exactly what i wanted it to. it's super easy to mix and use.

Bryce Didericksen  kansas city, MO Read my reviews (24)
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5 5-26-2011
great stain

You can use this with water or alcohol great product

BAClark  Hamilton, Ohio Read my reviews (9)
5 5-23-2011
Amazing results with Color Tone Liquid Stain!

I ordered some sealer, lacquer and a bottle of Color Tone vintage amber to stain and finish a bass guitar kit. It mixed with water easily and really enhanced the grain of the alder body. Three coats gave it a deep, almost caramel color. Looks fantastic! The pic is after the application without any lacquer yet. Stewmac is my favorite source for all my luthier needs.

big al  Florida
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5 5-22-2011
Cherry stain

This is a Gibson Explorer with a set neck I stained with color tone cherry stain

Billy C  Pennsylvania Read my reviews (22)
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5 5-21-2011
Color Tone

These stains are great. They fill in even and are easy to work with.

Naha Guitars  Cumming, Ga Read my reviews (2)
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