Went with an Ebony stain for the side wall and then learned my lesson of cheap amazon tape and scraped the binding almost everywhere. (these photos were before I scraped the binding)

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Dry fit with the pickups sitting in to see how itll all look together.

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My big question is for next steps as I have not done a hollow body before. Do I set the neck, poly finish, and then fish the electronics through the pickup cavities? Or should I do the electronics (with or without that extra tubing to help keep everything together) and then set the neck and poly finish?

Thank you for any suggestions on best practices for hollow body builds!