I have fitted the holly binding to the steel string, there is no bindings for the back, the back and sides look really nice as is and I think bindings for the back would spoil it. I have rubbed down the sound board and back right up to a 1200 grit, still got to rub the sides down yet.
I still need to come up with a design for the headstock but outside of that the neck is roughly complete. I still need to put the fret wire into the fingerboard yet. There is probably only a few days work left to do on the steel string but I am not in a hurry so it will probably take me a week.
Once the steel string is complete I am going to need to take some time to clean and sharpen various tools, I also need to make a few new tools. I will cover that on the blog when I get to it.