I spoke to Hipshot yesterday about their headless hardware. As I suspected, the design of the headpiece makes a head-adjusting truss rod impractical, in part because of one of the three anchor screws, which on the six string model is right in the middle, where a truss rod access hole would be. Can't say I'm looking forward to making a neck-through have truss rod access at the neck.
I'm still not totally resolved on whether I should go with the brass acorn nut or the steel spoke-wheel style, but one strong argument in favor of the brass is that the softer brass threads will strip far more easily than the stainless threads of the rod, and replacing the rod in a body-adjusting neckthrough would require fingerboard removal, which is no fun at all. So probably brass.
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