I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of the back gluing process. That was the most stressfull time of all. I had every type and size of clamp I could find on it.
The original back binding was destroyed in an earlier process. If I had it to do over, I would be careful to save it so I could reuse it. As it was, I decided to glue the back on, fill, sand and stain the edge, use no back binding and be happy. Well.....it looked like crap...so I decided to paint the back a semi gloss black and paint on a back "binding". This is the first stage of the process. Notice the string through holes. I did that to be a little like a traditional Tele, but also thought it wouldn't hurt to have that string tension helping to hold the back on. Remember....the luthier skill level?