Thank you for the kind words, everyone! The inlay isn't perfect, but it was a lot of fun as a mini project to build my motivation. I tend to hit snags and then procrastinate a LOT whilst I decide on a safe course of (corrective) action.
The body binding was giving me grief, particularly with the prospect of carving. I had also sanded it quite thin gap in spots and UHU Hart glue was giving me mixed results (not to mention some CA glue that soaked into the body and would have rejected stain). I decided to simplify things by routing the top down to flat, tearing the original binding out, and then repeating the binding stage. I used a well-prepared binding and acetone paste, which I'm far more confident with as a method and gave tidier results; no gaps as such, just two spots with questionable adhesion. The replacement binding was also a lighter shade of red - the same colour as the neck binding and perhaps from different ABS stock - and was far less brittle.
Anyway, a few shots:
I'll trim the tenon down and get the neck pocket routed when I go back home over the next couple of weeks... in 2017!