Stix Malloy

Hello The MinETune held up my purchase for several months while I waited (amongst many things)to actually get my hands on one....then within minutes of trying it I bought a guitar without one anyway ha! Consider the space inside the machine heads, how amazingly strong those tiny little gear wheels are and how much force is applied to each one during tuning by the 6ft lever that is your average guitarist . Then imagine that you've removed 50% of the gear wheels mass (and so its strength maybe?) and replaced the 6ft of muscle with a pretty week little motor. Then add some extra tensile/lateral forces on the machine head/motor combo by switching from say 10s to 11s. Alternatively, look at the increase in force YOU have to apply to get a full step pitch bend using 11s when you've played 9s for years. My guess is that they reckon heavy gauge strings would just put too much strain on the mechanics and I'd wager they're probably right. Regards