Yes, they had to go those vintage-type string trees. The replacements, as seen above, are the rounded version which made tuning more effective, an immediate benefit.
A dragon sticker I bought a few days ago, an in-between residence there as a reminder that there are only 2 pickups here. Along the way, the fretboard was re-moisturized as well.
Last but not least, a fresh set of strings; K-Garage's .010 - .046. This isn't my preferred string gauge but putting anything thinner in there was out of the question for a much shorter-scaled instrument. The action was set lower much to my preference, of course, & re-intonation was done as well.
