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No matter what you do the color will darken with time with Cherry or another photo light sensitive wood.

I went thru this when building Dental Clinics for 30+ years. We would come into a clinic that had VG Fir for example on the window trim. It was very red in color. I would tell the customer we can match the look with new Fir trim but it would darken within a few months and be even darker than the existing wood. Cherry is no different.

I would try to get some stain from the company doing the finishing. But I do have a quart of stain from DRV that I requested when ordering. So that tells me they DO have stain at the DRV factory.