Been kind of dreading this, as I've never bound an F-Hole before, and it's got some pretty tight radii. Becuse it has only one miter, the whole thing has to be done in one piece. It took me three tries in ruined binding, but it worked!
I don't have a pattern bit small enough to get into these corners, so I hand-filed it up to about 1/32" off my line and then carefully ran a 1/8" spiral downcut Dremel bit around my template, using the Dremel bit shaft itself as the pilot. I was worried it would either overheat the bit or burn the template, so I put a thin coat of wax on the template edges, and it worked perfectly. Might have to use this same technique for routing the tight corner radii of pickup and bridge routes.
Using the "Positive" form of the F-Hole, I pre-bent the binding around it using a heat gun and taping it to cool, worked pretty well. I typically use .060" binding, but it won't take a radius this tight, this is .040".
I saw a guy using zip-ties to hold binding on Youtube, works great! I just pulled them hand-tight, but next time maybe I get one of those zip-tie puller tools. You need square edges to pull against, might have to work up a jig for the headstock.
I use acetone for binding glue, I've tried Stewmac binding glue and CA, this is better, it's fast, easy, and leaves no residue. You just partially tape it, wick some acetone in with a pipette, and then keep taping the snot out of it. My miter came out... less than perfect, so I dissolved some of the binding in acetone and troweled it on, should be invisible when it dries, and I'll file it back to a point. Shew! Another nail biter I got away with!
Sheathed my aluminum plate cavity "roof" with conductive adhesive foil and epoxied it to the maple layer ledge. Later, I'll line the sides of the cavity and lap onto the plate to complete the Faraday cage.
Dagnabbit, another weekend gone!