I need to do a sunburst on my next bandura. I'd like to do something similar to the bass pictured below, just that the transition from black to yellow will happen in just a few inches rather than the whole instrument. I've made some color samples and think I have some good ideas for the red and yellow but I have a question about the opaque black.
I was hoping that just adding black to my red would make it dark enough to seem opaque. Looking at my color samples, that's not the case. Adding black dye tended to push the color to brown rather than darker red. Do I need to buy a pigment to create an opaque black, or will a dark red with a few coats of color be “black enough”. I need it to be pretty dark to hide some repairs.
I'm planning on spraying the color in Target USL over shellac though I could spray the color in shellac as well. My dyes are Transtint. Thanks.
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