Thanks for the advice, I do have a roll of pin striping tape and will be taking great care around the bindings.
As for the headstock, I am still leaning in this direction to make it definitely not a Lester now or any time in the future.
There has been little progress as I was waiting for a couple of bone nuts to turn up from PBG, No.7 & ST-1 and also had a family holiday up to Daydream Island to celebrate four birthdays, wife 70, daughter and son in law both 40 and one of the grandsons 16 and this happened
Sometimes a surprise happens, last week the family had an island escape to celebrate some birthdays and while sitting around the pool having a beer one of our songs came on the sound system at the bar.
We were on Daydream Island in the Whitsundays a long way from home and people we knew and the guys behind the bar were European backpackers playing their Spotify playlist.
The song was Fly Pretty Little Bird from our second album