Well had to do other work this weekend but hopefully I get the binding channel routed tomorrow. I'll have to pick up some Duco or weld on tomorrow as I've overlooked that step until now and feel like making a solvent based glue by melting the binding in plastic probably isn't the best bet. Got those braces down quite a bit, tapped, pretended I knew what I was looking for, took some more off, repeat, repeat, repeat, was happy with it, and glued the back on. Also built a routing jig (will take pics of the various jigs we've built along the way next time). Flush routed the top and back tonight.
I can hear the difference it made in the tone and sustain comparing mine and my Dad's builds, as they were almost identical up until now. I also have William Cumpianos book btw to use as reference because Alex Willis does some very questionable things.
On a side note: ordered set wood yesterday. Gonna go with a sinker redwood top and these
