@freemo Enamel paint would be a good bet. Prime first with an appropriate primer. You could use a spray enamel clear-coat over the top. Me, I would use a few coats of shellac with dye in it for the color, then a few (3-8) thin cots of tung oil, with at least a day between them. Wouldn’t be as durable, but would be easier to “touch up” after it gets dinged (and it will get dinged).
@freemo Pyrolysized wood impregnated with sodium silicate thoroughly coated with graphite. Electroplate it with different metals so it develops a unique patina. A simple copper coating can be a reddish color so it would be good to coat in enamel. You would have the most unique grips that are arguably wooden.
@freemo If you're not set on a paint, you might try a wood dye. It sits in the sweet spot between fully opaque paints and natural-tone stains, in that it soaks into the wood and leaves the grain visible but comes in vivid colours. The wear resistance comes from the fact that in penetrates the wood to a certain depth, so you'd have to physically abrade the wood down by a millimetre or so before you start seeing the undyed part.
See rockler.com/transtint-dyes for an idea of the kind of colours you could get. Reminds me of shopping for fountain pen ink!
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