I know that on a 6-inline Fender style headstock, staggered tuners really do not yield the optimal break angle on the 1st and 2nd strings.
MusicMan's 4+2 headstock seemed to address this effectively by bringing the 1st and 2nd posts closer to the nut. Ibanez back-angle their headstock, which works effectively too.
My question is however - on a Fender headstock, do we really need a second string tree (for G & D) strings?
What des it achieve by increasing the break angle? And does this apply only to the open string? (i.e. is the effect negligible when the string is fretted?
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