What's the deal with those split-blade Fralins?

[Mike Sulzer]

Style. Small details in the shape will not matter very much to the performance. I think Fralin did a really nice job all around.

I'll say again: the inner ends of those little bars have a very particular shape, what with the little curve and notch. Would it do the same thing if the bars retained their cross section along their length? Or is there something special about less metal at that overlap? How about a taper, like a gapped scarf joint? I'll buy the possibility of that space effectively acting like a dual-blade humbucker, but why that shape?