Yeah and spray a mess - they don't call it stain for nothing you know - that's exactly what it is stain. I'm going to say something I might regret. But you can actually make your own wood stain any color you like, for pennies on the dollar with mineral spirits and oil based artist colors from walmart or arts craft store. I don't stain wood so I don't use this method. But if you open a can of stain that glob of mess on the bottom of the can is oil based colors, the liquid is generally a mineral spirits mixture containing oil from the pigments and some retarder to make it dry slower (hence the name penetrating stain). If you want a quick dry stain use powdered artist colors and DNA instead. But again I don't stain wood so experiment yourself.
To tone wood you can also take the same oil based artist colors and mix in with your finishing or sealing medium instead of mineral spirits and change the tone of your finish, thereby chaning the color of what the wood looks like underneath the finish. When you do this go easy on the mixing you want the wood to show through, so very little tone mixture is needed, to much and the finish could get a muddy look just like wood that has been stained looks, but maybe that's what your after? However, with just a little color change in the finish you get a uniform color and don't have to worry about staining the wood and all the problems associated with wood stain.
A set of 6 earth tone artist colors (YELLOW OCHRE, VAN DYKE BROWN, BURNT SIENNA, RAW SIENNA, BURNT UMBER and RAW UMBER) plus BLACK and WHITE you can mix up any color on earth. If you want to go man made colors then add in BLUE, GREEN and RED to your mix. If you can find the pigmented dry powders instead of the oils they mix a lot easier in a finishing medium. A artist color wheel can help guide you in mixing, but soon you won't need the wheel as you'll learn what colors you like.
If you ever want to change the color - It's much easier to remove toner than it is to remove stain out of wood.
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