Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Transtint users
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
If someone is staining cherry please provide your recipe and a picture if convenient. A valid email for me is in the header.
The carving on the corner cupboard I am making will preclude staining with pigment stain. I have no experience with dye stains. I need to stain because the panels are an unusually blond cherry and overall this cherry has more variation in color that I am used to dealing with.
I've not used transtint for this...
John in NM
But lately I've been experimenting with artists oils on curly maple with pleasing results. I can't remember if it was raw umber or raw ocher I was using, but it warms up the maple without looking stained. Perhaps you could mix some raw umber and raw sienna to get a decent yet subtle evener for cherry?
Re: I've not used transtint for this...
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
I have used artist pigments for years. I need dye for current project.
Re: I've not used transtint for this...
John in NM
Yeah, you're results are why I tried it on walnut, I just didn't know if you'd tried other woods and other pigments.
I Adjust Cherry Last
Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey
Have confronted cherry's variation in a number of pieces. Issues I had was its photoreactivity. I had better results in adjusting parts after I first got the piece to darken naturally with a couple days' worth of suntan. What started out as lighter color in the raw would (sometimes) darken a bit more. "Problem" is, if you blend the color of the raw wood, the blend may fail when the untreated parts naturally darken more than the dyed/stained parts leaving you back where you started.
What I settled on is to adjust the color by either hand or spray application of tinted shellac.
This piece was pigment stained but blended with shellac before applying the top coat 
This one had "cherry" watco applied and then tinted shellac used to blend the cherry sections a bit. 
The tint I use is a mix of Medium Brown with a touch of Amber and Red
PS
Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey
For tinting, I sneak up on the final color with multiple applications of a thinner mix. This gives more control.
As your carved areas will be more absorbent, I'd suggest a thinned mix of shellac (like maybe less than a 1 lb mix) applied with a small brush to partly seal that grain to prevent too much darkening.