Fusion

Would love to hear about your final endeavors! I finished my mod with different neckpiece, different bridge, different pickups etc.

On 5/27/2018 at 7:45 AM, flashriprock said:

I quickly changed my mind however, and I DO NOT recommend staggering them as I did at first.

One of the things I quickly learned was that tightly aligning each of the pieces next to each other gives them rigidity and stability that is not possible when each is independent.  Note too that with the NK headless guitar you will need to trim the center screws because they will otherwise penetrate the truss rod tunnel.  This is another reason to line up the pieces for shared rigidity because the center pieces will have less screw depth than the others.  One bonus was that only one of the four dowel holes was showing after installation.

Does this solution (in combination with your headless brigde) hold tuning well? Like REALLY well?

On 6/24/2018 at 9:05 PM, flashriprock said:

Here's a sketch of my pickup cavity dimensions.  Notice that mine were routed about 1.25mm off from a true center line.

Any progress on your project? Following it closely hehe. I received the Hipshot bridge, but found out that one needs ball-ends as well, so if I wanted to keep the original black NK headpiece, I'd end up having to use double ball-end strings. But the problem is that these won't fit through that original headpiece. So I'll either need to go the the accompanying Hipshot headpiece (but not sure whether the head is long enough to accomodate that one at the right string angles etc), or perhaps ask my luthier to look at your solution  Thanks for pioneering man!

Hi there that S the same seller I bought mine from usually he replies within .max 3 days. 

Awesomeness has clearly been bestowed upon thee my luthier. I could never even think of doing these things for the first time. I'd end up with a pile of splintered wood haha.

Not sure whether my luthier will make photos of every step, but I'll be sure to post whatever info and pictures I have here. Or would you prefer I make a separate thread of my own?

I'll order my pickups and bridge this weekend. It'll probably take a few weeks before he can fit my guitar into his schedule but I'll give a shout when I have something.

Good luck with your endeavours!!

Wow thanks for your topic!! I signed up here just because of your topic. I bought a NK as well a month or two ago and I'm planning the following upgrades:

* replace bridge (which does NOT hold tuning well AT ALL) with Hipshot bridge (not the headpiece)

* replace pickups (which are horrible) by either an IronGear Hot Slag/Rollin Mill combo, a Entwistle HDN combo or Seymour Duncans

On sevenstring there's a thread about an NK mod as well but due to ehm... flack he received with regards to the guitar being a Strandberg copy (which it's not) that thread sort of got cut off. I PMed with that guy though and he put on the same bridge on the same guitar successfully.

I'm not technical at all (in the Netherlands we'd say "I have two left-hands") so a luthier will perform above upgrades for me.

I will follow this thread closely. Awesome stuff sir!!