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I looked at roller nuts for tuning stability myself, and the biggest drawback I found with those is that they might get gunked up too easily causing the bearings to, well, not roll as much as they should, defeating the purpose they're supposed to serve here. And I don't know if they're...

Neato! What saddles are those?

Wow, that finish looks so sweet. Is it safe to lick it? Asking for a friend ..

If you want a brighter tone from humbuckers, more like a single coil, but you don't want to drop the hum-cancelling, then go for a series/parallel switch wiring instead of split-coil. I don't like split-coil because it drops the output of the pickup in half and defeats the hum-cancelling. Unless...

This is a really really hard one.  :kewlpics:

Would love to hear those pickups!

There are many pickup makers that sell single coil or P90 pickups in a humbucker size, so the humbucker route is very flexible. However, I can't say from personal experience how closely a Fralin Big Single (for example) sounds to an actual Strat single coil pickup. I'm going to guess there will...

Another variable here would be pickup height I suppose, that can pretty significantly alter tone.

Honestly, it seems reasonable to me that the small variances of tone from neck woods could be compensated for in the signal chain, yes? Adjust the amp tone stack? Roll off some treble w/guitar's tone knob (or bass rolloff if you've got that)? Use an EQ pedal? Any tone controls on pedals you're...

I think the Babicz full contact TOM bridge looks interesting. Adjustable saddle heights on a TOM bridge! I'm looking at these in the future, although perhaps as a recessed TOM/string-thru arrangement.

Another option for you would be to buy a humbucker-sized P90 pickup, a number of pickup makers offer those, but I don't believe that Warmoth carries them. On the budget side, you have GFS Dream 90s/Dream 180s (hum-cancelling P90s, a kind of hybrid humbucker-P90), and on the high end you have...

There are too many humbucker pickups out there to count. What's your budget? What music do you play? What amp/s do you have?

I love those big lakes in Iowa, very underrated. Congrats you lucky bas... Wizard dude!

I think it's a cool idea, but a headless neck requires a particular bridge, at least. As a part, it's not as widely interchangable as Warmoth's current line of necks.

Nice! I'd imagine an improvement over stock JM bridges in tuning stability if nothing else, given the vagaries with those. But yes, rather expensive saddles. One thing they have over the TOM bridges that I'm used to is easily adjustable radius. But since you should only need to set that just...