I think he is talking about the bass side, now I am am not so sure though

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Looked again at my neck today and saw the string broke off right at the e-string tuner.

I might just follow what has been said on the previous page, and use my cheap rip-off Strat copy with some fatter strings for my drop tunings and just play it until I can afford a new guitar in the future.

Think I'll slap a 10-48 set on that copy and a fresh 9-42 on my Strat, and report back how I'm liking things!

"...the string broke off right at the e-string tuner..."

"e" connotes the unwound little e string, not the wound E string.

Sounds like there's a burr on the e-string tuner as well.

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My personal choice are D'Addario XL EXL 110 and bend the crap out of them and they never break and I do have a couple of guitars. However having one for any out of the norm tuning is the best solution.
Just my thoughts

I don't think it's a burr on the tuner post. Most likely metal fatigue. Sometimes when I work on guitars and have to keep tuning and retuning the strings, the high E is the first to break at the post end followed by the B.

Sometimes I like to experiment a lot, so you break a few strings along the way.

It's not metal string fatigue.

I tune to Eb standard and drop C# on all of my guitars... I never get string breakage at all. In fact, I disassembled and reassembled my main guitar with a Schaller (now a Gotoh Floyd) over a half dozen times using the same strings with testing two different bridges, rapidly tuning up often tuning up too high, drop tuning, playing both, then swapping trems and repeating... Not a single string breakage, and that's reusing the clamped portion of the strings. I use D'Addario 9's.

There has to be a burr somewhere. Strings don't normally 'always break' unless there is an issue with the saddle.

ahhh this whole time i thought he was talking about the bass side.... so he definitely needs to inspect for burrs.

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