I have a friend that I get together with a couple nights a month and we beat on guitars with a few other friends...and try to make music..its fun..after this last OM I built he is really interested in a hand made solid black guitar , seems he saw a guild that was solid black and he is set on having one...he has been looking at some Wenge , so far I have bent and built with EIR, Bubinga, and Amazon rosewood, which was challenging, to make things more difficult he is set on a a cutaway, I have made a dred mold I made off of Antes plans, with a cutaway side and have also made a cutaway press for my fox style bender, however I have yet to bend a cutaway. I have only stained one guitar and that was a warmouth strat I built a couple of years ago, and that was a light brown stain..my question is about staining a solid color, black, and advice as to what kind of wood works well being stained and contorted to a cutaway...I and set on using water based stains and laquer, I love the Em 6000 laquer..any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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thanks