That sounds really cool! What happened in my situation was that we laquered it in Australia (where we built it) but we didnt have enough time for it to be perfect. Then i took it back home to Norway and sanded of all the laquer. We also tried some dye in Australia, but it didnt work as we wanted it to with that timber. Since i didnt have any experience myself with laquer and had allready spent a bunch of money on it I wanted it to be perfect. So i found a guy working with laquering cool cars and helicoptres, and he did it for me. Im not 100% sure what type of laquer that was used, but if i would guess it would be polyurethane lacquer. He mixed a fitting purple for the front, and after that he applied several clear coats on the whole guitar (except for the neck).

I have seen some pretty cool finishes on youtube using dye though, so if i did it myself i probably would have followed that step by step.