[JessThrasher]

I removed my string tree awhile ago just to save 1 step in restringing lol. Does it do any damage to remove it? How many of you have removed your string trees?

[wjp01908]

It shouldn`t do any damage to your guitar but could give you problems with the way the strings sound.

String trees are there to maintain pressure over the nut holding the string firmly down at that point.

If you have a headstock that goes straight along the line of the neck, ( as in the Strat. ) the angle of the string to the nut gets very shallow as you move away from the nut. This means they rest very lightly in the nut which can cause a dead tone - I know as soon as I play a new string if I remembered to run it under the tree or not

I imagine that the makers of your guitar would not have bothered with string trees if they were not required.

Will

[coldethyl]

Haven't and more than likely wouldn't remove the trees of my Strat. I prefer to keep it as I got it.

[OldG]

Originally Posted by wjp01908

It shouldn`t do any damage to your guitar but could give you problems with the way the strings sound.

String trees are there to maintain pressure over the nut holding the string firmly down at that point.

If you have a headstock that goes straight along the line of the neck, ( as in the Strat. ) the angle of the string to the nut gets very shallow as you move away from the nut. This means they rest very lightly in the nut which can cause a dead tone - I know as soon as I play a new string if I remembered to run it under the tree or not

I imagine that the makers of your guitar would not have bothered with string trees if they were not required.

Will

+1, saved me typing ,Will, cheers!

[Stratrat]

Originally Posted by coldethyl

Haven't and more than likely wouldn't remove the trees of my Strat. I prefer to keep it as I got it.

+1. It was designed that way for a reason.

[P-90]

String trees were designed, I believe, as a way of getting around the string tension issues that come with using a straight headstock. I suppose that removing string trees might slightly reduce your chance of breaking strings, while greatly increasing the chances of some of your strings sounding kinda wrong.

My guitar has an angled headstock, so I've never had reason to worry about it.

[JessThrasher]

My guitar has a straight headstock but also a floyd rose tremmy.

The string tree is just a single bar that goes across all 6 strings. I removed it because it serves no purpose. It's acually a tension bar but i think of it as a string tree.

[JessThrasher]

I just had the edge III tremmy fixed up because of all the hell its causing me again. Now I have a feeling that if I cut the strings going to the tuners, i can still play IN TUNE!

[P-90]

If, as I suspect, you have a locking nut, it probably won't make much difference except to require a little more fine-tuning after the nut is locked. If you didn't have one, the strings wouldn't be firmly seated in the nut without the tensioner in place, and you'd probably have put it back right away.

[JessThrasher]

How come no one else removes their string trees? And is the one i have acually considered a string tree? 'cause the head teachnician at the store I work at tells me its acually called a tension bar.