BLO – any oil, or oil-based finish – can be readily tinted with oils paints. This in essence makes a homemade pigmented oil stain (or toner, or glaze, depending on how/when you use it).
Other colouring candidates for oil finishes are oil-based enamels and Japan colours, but cheap student-quality oil paints like Georgian or Winton are probably still the cheapest way to do this and they're availably nearly everywhere, including some high-street newsagents.
Osvaldd":ljdsx7et said:
I'm reading these Van Dyke/Dyck crystals only suitable for oak, mahogany and walnut?
Best suited to, not only suited to. This is about the colouring that people commonly want for given woods, the van dyke crystals don't care either way.
Osvaldd":ljdsx7et said:
I have some softwood that need staining.
Bear in mind the likely outcome of conventional stains on softwoods. Especially if it's cheap pine or spruce!
If you want to colour this type of wood evenly gel stains are probably your best option. The only option worth considering according to some sources. Gel stains don't soak in so they don't blotch, but they obscure the natural grain the most of all 'stains' since naturally they're sitting on the surface and not colouring the wood directly.