Dye the butt?

[j6uk]

Hi all,
I'm wanting to dye the brown butt on my machine splice cue, not sure what the butt wood is, its quite porous so it could be mahogany. I want to make the butt black then lacquer it. The thing is I obviously don't want to blacken the ash..
Has anyone done this before? If so how did it work out and what did you do to prevent possible bleeding into the shaft?

Thanks

[cally]

Won't be mahogony bud, more likely rosewood type of wood...

How to get the butt black......

buy a decent cue ya tight get....

[j6uk]

lol lol thanks for the input cal

Won't be mahogony bud, more likely rosewood type of wood...

How to get the butt black......

buy a decent cue ya tight get....

[perpetualboredom]

Some kind of black spray paint, and clear lacquer over the top? mask off the bits you dont want to paint?

[cyberheater]

A vinyl dye would work as well. And that's very permanent.

[culraven]

Black french polish, build it up slowly, mask it in reverse first and put a little wax on the ash, should stop the bleed as you call it.

[j6uk]

Yeah I think its got to be a dye, I want to sand, oil and lacquer after an ebony dye has penetrated. I'm aware some of the water based dyes can swell so looking at possibly an oil based..
The real concern is preventing the dye bleeding into the ash' and finding the best n blackest wood dye'

A vinyl dye would work as well. And that's very permanent.