We are using clear grade santos mahogany on a high-end job. Customer wants absolute evenness of color which we think we can obtain using Transtint. Anyone else ever confronted this request for santos? What did you use--Transtint, analine dye, pigmented stain? Did you seal it with shellac afterwards or did you go directly to your final finish coat? Thanks. Joe

honestly?/


i told them to go bite themselves...and do it perfectly!...are you nuts to take such a job? really? you must like not getting paid..then chewed up and spit out in the legal system....

Im sorry ..but i no sympathy for guys like you or people like you just contracted with..

you deserve eachother

What in the world are you talking about? Did you misdirect your post? I can see no way that your response has anything at all to do with my query?

I have no idea..i must've had 1 too many shot of jager when i posted that..but the meaning and intent was right..

TO get Santos to stain more evenly, you are basically looking at wash coating the floor prior to staining. Then stain it with whatever you want to use .Transtint dyes are great but you need to make samples , get the homeowner to sign off on them and then proceed .

What James is saying is that you are probably giving the homeowner too much control and setting yourself up for heartache. I kind of get a similar impression based on your phrasing.