Someone tells you to make it walnut color over some Ash lumber. Actually there are maybe 2000 shades of walnut. 

Give me something to match or else you are wanting the impossible!!! Smearing a rag full from a certain can also can get you lots of darks and lights or brushing is the same thing.

  Well I think the salesman gave me the wrong can but it does say walnut!!!

 I learned long ago to sneak up on the sample color the customer gave you.

And if you don't have an air compressor go back to mowing the yard .

Oh yea, I am working with plain ole pine and I did use an air brush with about 10 or 15 lbs of pressure

Gettin' there, Jess.

 

Another hundred coats or so and you should have a real walnut color.

 

Is the customer the one who made the stained-glass panes in the background?  If so, you could be in for a really tough time until you get it just right! 

One of my finishing rules: Never let a customer describe a color  to you in words.

 

If you buy a "walnut" stain from 4 different manufacturers, it will be 4 different colors.

If you apply one stain to seven different woods, it will be seven different colors.

If you apply one stain to once piece of wood and finish with 4 different top coats, it will be 4 different colors.

Wife is the stained glass person. The glass that's in the frames are smaller than the ones I'm working on right now.

This customer brought in a stained glass that was in a church that was over 100 years old and it just recently burned down and must have been where there was no fire for the lead used on stained glass would have melted..The one the guy brought in had been attached with came to hold the glass together and wife only uses regular 60/40 solder and he said that's okay for the two will be separated by 30 feet or so and no one would be smart enough to tell the difference. 

  The 100 coats or so was applied in less than 30 minutes or so and lacquer or acetone thinner doesn't need any extra time between coats. And if you have dyed or stained any wood and it got too dark or other mishaps then you know how much time you have just wasted trying to remove that mess so you can start all over again.