Dan, I just did a similar thing as I think you know - there is a thread over at Harmony Central. I bent standard LMI rosewood binding (which bends fairly well) over a hot pipe and used a MDF form to hold it. When I cut the MDF I made an "innin" and an "outie" and clamped the binding between them. Here is the pipe and "innie"
The binding clamped into the form. It is tricky to bend each part of the curve and not have the long straight sections of binding get in the way - I started with the horn because I knew that was going to be difficult but maybe the waist would have been better. There was a very tiny bit of splitting right at the horn, I wicked some CA into that and clamped it and it seems to be fine.
Because I wasn't ready to bind the body at this time (I was actually experimenting to see if I could bend it before cutting the channels in the body) I put it in the "innie" - "outie" sandwich and put it away until time to bind.
Also, like you, I my top was too thin to do a true carved top but I wanted to shape it some. I routed a channel which would become the edge of the recurve and then the binding channel below that.
I don't have a good picture to show the inside of the horn but I made a mistake and ran the recurve into the area where the neck mates - don't do that. You can run the binding channel all the way into the neck but stop the recurve somewhere back in the curved part - you'll need to finesse that later. You can kind of see it in this shot where I'm getting ready to bind the body - there is a little notch next to the pickup cavity that shouldn't be there.
Good luck, your guitar is looking nice so far.
