One Step backward

We did not fill the grain on the swamp ash, so we are going back a bit by stripping the laquer and dye.  That means I get another crack at the color. A couple of shots with the cream perloid pickgaurd.  The color is Merlot (red and black dye).  It looks ok, but not quite what I want.  I am thinking of a more redish maroon. Mixing dye is not easy task without research into the dusty area of color matching.  That is a whole other media.