First bass kit (fretless P)

[Toolman76]

I stained and lacquered both necks over the past week. I went with Simon’s recommendation and mixed up an amber dye out of my premixed Transfast primary colors: 30mL yellow and then adding red drop by drop until it was slightly orange and then doing the same with blue until I had a rich amber. I was really pleased with the result. I did the 5 string neck with the a darker amber mix, then sanded back and recoated with the lighter amber. I added 6 coats of Minwax spray lacquer (my local Woodcraft store looked it up and said it is 3% nitrocellulose) and it turned the ugly spots on the neck into beauty marks! It is quite iridescent. I stained the maple fingerboard on my 4 string with the darker amber but I am not ready to unmask it yet, you’ll have to wait for that reveal! Would it be better to do the CA glue/epoxy fingerboard coat straight to raw wood or can I hit it with lacquer first?