Nova guitar parts headless P bass conversion

[Jim C]

Really nice mod. How does it affect the weight of the instrument?

 

[Ethereal Thorn]

Beautiful parts, how do I go about ordering from you?

I went thru his eBay shop and messaged him with order details. I highly recommend nova hardware

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Beautiful parts, how do I go about ordering from you?

I know @Passini is on here but I'm not sure how often. You could PM him or apassini98 on eBay

 

[Passini]

Beautiful parts, how do I go about ordering from you?

Thank you very much, You can buy on ebay or directly with me, I just sent you a message.

 

[Passini]

Really nice mod. How does it affect the weight of the instrument?

Here is a picture of the bridge weight. It is the old version.

 

[Mickey666]

Found him on the bay, can't wait to try the system

 

[johnh89]

Really nice mod. How does it affect the weight of the instrument?

If that was meant for me as the OP , I couldn't tell you . I've never weighed it but as you can guess , being a slab bodied lump of northern ash , It is no lightweight . I would imagine that the loss of headstock material , machine heads and bridge , and the addition of headpiece and new bridge would definately reduce the overall weight if that is important to you .

 

[Jim C]

I was looking at the delta.
Does the instrument weigh more or less after the install?

 

[kevinpmajka]

I have a headstock damage situation and I was wondering if you can remember or describe how much routing was done to that standard Fender shaped body for the bridge?

The conversion was very straightforward . I laminated the cut down headstock with 2mm carbon fibre sheet to strengthen it after filling the machine head hole with maple dowel , and screwed the bridge on as a guide for where to rout out the body to get the string height down , and also to machine the heel to clear the tuners . By one of those lucky quirks of fate , neither needed to be done ! so it was strung up and finished .(sort of ) . I did consider remaking the control plate and pickup surround out of carbon fibre but after doing the headstock with it , I realised what a messy , difficult pain in the arse it is to work with so the tort remains .

 

[johnh89]

No routing required at all . You may not be so lucky as it was a custom body .

 

[Snert]

I'm eying one of my basses to do a conversion with now, but with my limited tooling, I'm not sure I can do it alone, but I have a friend a few hours drive away who does (and he has luthiery experience). Might need to factor in some beer and steaks and make a weekend trip of it.