That is gonna look sweet Cascadia. I cannot wait to see this thing finished. I didn't mind scraping the binding on my tele build. I actually made my own scraper instead of a razor blade. I took a piece of flat metal bar and grinder it down share and counter ground the tip like I saw on a video from StewMac and they show how the Gibson people scrape bindings and it worked great. I just squeezed my fingers at the proper depth of the binding and moved fairly quickly and the tip being ground backwards kept it from digging on where the veneer meets the binding. That was the tricky parts on mine.

Looking awesome keep up the good work.