—Coach colors ground in Japan when thinned with turpentine make good stain. Mix in the proportion of one-half gallon of turpentine to one pound of color and add a little boiled oil. Colors commonly used are drop black, Vandyke brown, medium chrome yellow, burnt and raw umber and burnt and raw sienna.
Green: Drop-black, two parts, medium chrome yellow, one part, a little red to kill the brightness.
Walnut: Asphaltum with a little Venetian red.
Golden oak: Asphaltum and turpentine thinned like water, to be followed with filler darkened with burnt umber and black.
Antique oak: Raw sienna properly thinned, with a little burnt umber and black added.
4. Spirit Stains.
Black: Alcohol and aniline black.
Mahogany: Alcohol and Bismark brown.
Aniline stains cut with alcohol, and mixed with white shellac and banana oil or amyl alcohol in equal parts make good stains for small pieces of work.