can i see your bamboo dye/stain jobs?

[Echatham]

trying to pick analine dye colors on a color chart is really hard        

[Crooked Stic]

Glass or wood backed? I do glass bows and the stain would look different under glass.This recurve has lemon yellow stained actionboo under glass.
 

[Roy from Pa]

Black Walnut.


Light Golden walnut.



Charcoal Gray stain turns the Osage a green color. No picture of that. Buy about 4 different colors and go from there. One of those little bottles lasts for years....

[Echatham]

Thanks crooked stick but yeah i mean bamboo backed.  I want to do some kinda sunburst pattern at the nodes like o have seen alot of people do... Just not sure what color pattern i want to do

[Echatham]

Oooh pretty roy!  Is that back and belly of the same bow?

[Roy from Pa]

After you stain the bow, rubbing the bow with 0000 steel wool will lighten it up as much as you want.. Bowjunkie makes his bows darker at the riser and fades it out to a lighter color. The possibilities are endless...

[Roy from Pa]

No different bows up there. Last bow I just used light golden walnut on the boo and nothing on the Osage. Use your imagination:) The alcohol based stain is great for blending two or three colors together. That is why I recommend it...

[Echatham]

Can you just slap two colors on there and then blend it with alcohol?  Is that how it works?

[Roy from Pa]

This stain comes as a powder, Eric. You just mix a little with denatured alcohol. The more powder you add the darker it gets. if ya get it too dark, mix in more alcohol to lighten it up.

[Roy from Pa]

Can you just slap two colors on there and then blend it with alcohol? Is that how it works?

Yes... Try it on a test piece and see.

[Echatham]

Sweet..... But the colors!  There's too many colors!    

[TimBoA]

Have you seen James Parker's bows?  He does awesome stain work on bamboo.  Try googling "bamboo backed and belly parker".  

I really like that Black Walnut stain on Roy's bow!

[Bivyhunter]

A word of caution, the alcohol stain color fades over time. The waterbase holds the color much better.