That really is coming along very nicely indeed!
With stains - and particularly reds - the colour will be massively affected by the underlying wood colour @Akula
The best cherry red I managed (for the shade I was looking for) was using red calligraphy ink but that was on mahogany. I used it too with a figured maple top and that was splendid too but a quite different shade - much redder and less of the blue tinge. If you do try it out on some scrap, make sure you go for calligraphy ink - it is designed for documents that need to be legible after hundreds of years...and so won't fade in the same way that some standard pen inks might.
Canon cameras are notoriously poor at capturing reds, but these two shots are pretty close to how they came out:
The one on mahogany:
And on figured maple:
To my eye, the mahogany one is blue-tinted red and the maple one is closer to a red red.
Then again, there's cherry red and there's cherry red so neither of the above might be anywhere near what you define as cherry red
By the way, ref fading of some inks, I see both of these relatively regularly - both were made pre-2016 and both hang on walls next to windows when they are not being played...and they both still pretty much look like this colour-wise.