One of my first stabilized blanks was buckeye burl done for a sketch pencil about a year ago. I finished it using just MicroMesh and it came out with a nice shine (# 1 in this photo)
During my summer bathroom remodel, at some time in the process I dropped it on the ground near my outdoor workbench (which started it's life and continues to double as our picnic table) and forgot about it. It turned up in the late fall yard cleanup when we moved the table, and while it had it's fair share of dirt and grass stuck to it, and the lead was warped from the moisture, the worst that happened to the wood is it is a bit more dull than it was when it started it's outdoor survival experience. From memory, regular handling of it before it was lost did quite a bit to tone down the nice shine seen in the photo, and I've been meaning to get a new photo of it to show how well unfinished stabilized wood stood up to a summer outside...
I've done other stabilized woods with CA finishes since, and I have to say I'm torn between the high gloss of the CA and the nice matte finish of it natural...