830-9907 Cal-Tint II 16-Ounce Colorants, Lamp Black

I added a small amount to satin lacquer and sprayed it onto some furniture I was making. I had previously tried lots of ways to stain my wooden furniture black and they all came out blotchy and inconsistent. Several coats of lacquer with just a little of this mixed in and a quick sand with 400 grot paper and it looks like shop bought furniture. What a great finish, consistently black over the entire piece with a lovely soft sheen. This product worked amazingly well.

I color grout and this stuff works good and it was a great price. Doesn't stink.

As a colorant for some white concrete repair material, this was great for matching the concrete. USE SPARINGLY! A little goes a long way, as in a half teaspoon turning a quart of white paste medium gray.

I hired a high-end professional painter to do my deck (sanding, caulking, priming, and sealing) and decided I needed to redo the back wall paint also, which was not painted very well from the previous owners. I was looking for a color kind of similar to what was there when we were playing around with a I color already had. I don’t mind beige undertones, but I wanted a little bit of gray to it. He added some of this black to it (and previously green to help take out the red tones) and we ended up with kind of a greige color. Oddly it matched almost perfectly one of the old colors inside the garage. A little goes a long way so you should get up more than you need with this bottle. This is the brand that my painter normally buys.

as advertised

Great & Cheap

label says universal colorant. it's universal if your universe consists of water based paints only. does not work with oil based paint, shellac or lacquer.

The tint is fantastic. I had 5 gallons of leftover white paint that I wanted to make grey. A few squirts of the lamp black and I had the exact color I needed. I wish I had discovered this sooner.