How the hell you guys break strings while tuning I'll never know. Even on my pos strat copy I never broke a strin replacing them, the only trouble I had was not having the high e wound enough and it slipped off (which happened a lot cause I was new to guitar.) I understand tuning the wrong string and it breaking (which I do but realize after 2 turns what I'm doing,) but just straigtht up tuning to standard pitch?