Hope you enjoy your build and its outcome. You can always do more. Tastes change, and so does the appearance according to outdoor lighting conditions. Plus you don't look anyway when fishing, except an impressionistic macro appearance as opposed to the micro we see here all the time.
As we see from another discussion, it's questionable whether CP has any significant effect on durability; I've always thought of it as vestigial from the pre-nylon thread days since silk thread does require it for any degree of color consistency. The various appearances of varnish-only (translucent/parent) are a byproduct of eliminating an unneeded step in wrapping and finishing. As for aesthetics, just from rods I've built over the years:
Top to bottom
9' Sceptre, late '70s: too solid
8' Montague rebuild, a year or two ago: too richly dark
8 1/2' Sceptre, a winter or two back: too lusterous
8' Paddock/Lami butterscotch, a year or two ago: too somber wraps with too little flavor/character
8 1/2' Fenwick, recently: too little contrast between tipping and main wrap; too much contrast with blank; too little translucency to allow blank to sound into wrap tone
8' Conolon rebuild, a little while ago: too little tranlucence of green wrap
8' Conlon rebuild, more recently than a while ago: too clear
7 1/2' Fisher, two years ago or so: too blotchy
6' Fenwick, during the Daytona 500, but I forget who won: too pale
7 1/2' South Bend refinish, paint and wrap, Talledaga, Brian Vickers, maybe: too too yellowy using yellow thread
8' Fisher, in progress, just the first two coats of thinned varnish: too reddish
8 1/2' Fisher, late '80s: perfect.
My favorite rod ever since, including the wraps, which I haven't touched after more than two decades of use. Nevertheless, when I started the Fisher in progress, it was too long ago for me to remember what thread color produced this result, I didn't want to try too many experiments to get an exact match because I have too much fishing to do and that would have been too picky.