Today I spent about 2 hours scraping the plastic binding around the guitar body to get the black paint back off of it.  This is a very tedious task but all in all it went well.  I had to touch up a couple of spots where i scraped too far and hit the wood edge.  Once that dries I'll scrape the binding just a little more to make sure it has a nice even edge and then it's on to 10 coats of clear on the body.  The neck is getting shipped out on Tuesday to get the headstock logo screen printed by Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars!  Not much longer and I'll be playing it!  Photos are better this time. I shot them with a real camera instead of my phone!  Look at that color pop!