Cherry stain

You can go to Sherwin Williams or any good paint store with a unstained piece of wood and they'll mix you up a quart and you can try it on the piece of wood and adjust the color till its to your liking. Wood tends to darken and this way you can adjust for it. You just have to allow for the color change the clear will do to it. If you find when you get home and try it and color is off any good store will adjust it again for you.
 
Cherry wood is photo-reactive in that it darkens naturally with age and light exposure. If (that is a big if !) Sea Ray used a specis of Cherry common in the US, then you aren't going to match the existing cabinetry, even if you get the name of the finish Sea Ray used in 2009, without trial and error simply because of the natural darkening process that occurs over the 10 years your boat cabinets have been finished.

I have had excellent results with H. Behlen Bros. stains . Their Solar-Lux stains are easy to use and their print colors are pretty close to the end result you get, except what ever you put the stain on has a huge effect on the final color. I built a drop down table for a laptop for a friends 54 MY with a dark cherry interior and the medium red mahogany was nearly a perfect match:

http://www.hbehlen.com/Behlen_Color_Chart.pdf

If you are just dealing with some small sscratches, Behlen also sells a variety of fill or burn in sticks for little boo-boo's.


Hope that helps.........
 
I wonder how many people read the subject and thought, "why did you let cherries aboard your boat in the first place, and what got stained?".

Just me? :D
 
Thanks for the tips! No cherries on the boat. No cheese curls, shoe string potato chips and a few other banned food items. I’m sure I’m not the only one there though. I am aware of the chararistcs of cherry but was hoping to have a color start and darken as needed. Boat with owners Manuel on boat 275 miles away. I have pictures but still not the same. No cherry kool aid either!⚓
 
Does anyone know the particular dark cherry stain Sea Ray would have used on the 2009 sedan bridge. I have some touch up I would like to do. Thanks
If just touch up, take a door to a paint store and just buy the matching stain sticks.
 

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