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You know, it really does look pretty good as-is, albeit not what you originally wanted.
My experience with Wudtone is that, once you've started with Wudtone as your finishing option, you're pretty much stuck with it. I've had similar unhappy experiences, which I could only rectify by thicknessing about 0.5mm off the top of the body where I'd applied the stain.
Other than spraying a solid black coat over the top, I'm not sure what else you could do to achieve a more consistent colour finish. And I don't know how a spray coat would react to the Wudtone that's already there.
You might do better either accepting that one for what it is and, if you still want a black Strat, starting again with a new body. Or, if you really can't live with it as-is, sell that body ... and start again.
What I wanted was a trans black, oil type finish as I like the feel of wood. Wudtone seemed ideal. It certainly feels nice as is.
The advice I got was to mix the black deep colour with the clear top coat. Seemed sensible, paid for more colour but hardly made any difference. All I want at this point is it to be noticeably trans black, rather thsn 70s furniture.
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Orange rather than red - and that was after a good few coats of Wudtone.
I tried rubbing down and re-doing, but never managed to rub it down far enough to get back to wood that was unaffected by the previous treatment, and the finish didn't get any better.
In the end, I took 0.5mm off the whole top with a router to get back to completely unaffected wood
and then started again with the Wudtone, but applying it with a different method.
In the end, it worked out well, but it was a painful learning experience.
With your Strat body, the grain pattern is so strong, I'm not sure that you'd get the finish that (I think) you want with a stain, because the stain is always going to penetrate into the open grain better than the rest of the body. Hence you're going to get those pronounced stripes.
For a more consistent coloured finish, but with a still-visible grain underneath, you might be better with thin coats of a spray?
It's a shame that there's no reference to the 'stippling' technique on the website, but then i guess that if there was, sales of the solid colours would probably drop off due to the fact that it is no longer just a rub-on finish that's easy to do.
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I'm think of doing something like this soon on a swamp ash body, using Wudtone's balck magic woman as well. Has anyone got any experience using their transparent grain filler, and would this alleviate these kind of issues?
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From reading threads on here seems the best advice would be buy crimson guitar stains instead.