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It really is isn't it... 6-in-line makes for a far prettier headstock or else just live with the string paths like literally every single guitar player has successfully done for the last century...
I am surprised some nerds haven't used Steinberger tuners or extended tuner shafts on an aesthetically pleasing bigger headstock to get the same effect... I've yet to see it anyway?
Nahguavkire-
extended tuner shafts on an aesthetically pleasing bigger headstock
You could, but then you’d have function following form in a visually jarring way, with extra material for the longer tuner shafts and surplus wood bulking out the headstock. I know lots of parts of an electric guitar are driven by aesthetics, but for most of it you can at least make an argument about functionality.
rodan
That's what Mike Dawes uses. It's a great indication of how the perfect 3+3 headstock design, to get straight string paths, is inevitably ugly.