Show your Smith bass!

[Albert Smith]

Originally Posted by Tim Bishop

My unsolicited response would be: I suspect this is due to the design of the peg-head. There really is no other place for the B string to be strung given the line from the Nut to the respective Tuning Peg. Odd, but I guess one thing it allows for is B string extension and ease of wind to the tuning peg.

Thanks Tim, I was just curious I have never seen that before