Thank-you everybody for your heel cap input. I think the general consensus leans slightly more to the Ebony heel cap and I think I'm most comfortable with that as well.
On to the fretboard-- In this picture I've rough cut the outline of the fretboard to best show the grain and I am now cutting the fret slots with a Japanese pull saw.
This picture I've already bound the fretboard and am radiusing the top of the fretboard. I use a 16" radius unlesss asked to do otherwise.
Here we are back at the granite plate to flatten the bottom of the fretboard. The more accurate the surfaces of the neck and fretboard the less adjustment will be required in leveling the frets.
Thanks for viewing!