Ibanez Edge Iii Question
WTN
Nov 17 2007, 04:40 AM
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Just bought an Ibanex RG370DX. I know the manual (page 20) says to adjust the spring tension to keep the tremolo assembly in parallel with the guitar body, but what part of the tremolo assembly am I supposed to use to line it up. There is an obvious one using the bottom base plate, but I have read where that is wrong.
The manual shows (poorly) that the line is drawn right to the left of the fine tuners. And yes there is a very small area there that I could use as a base for a parallel line to align with the guitar body - is this it? The picture shows the line cutting through a "hump" which is what is confusing me. There is no hump on my RG370.

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Owen
Nov 18 2007, 09:00 AM
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To be fair, you expected a relatively cheap Ibanez made in Japan or somewhere distant, to better or match a 1961 Gibson Les Paul?

Thats some pretty high expectations, I can see why you'd be getting frustrated, I've played a few guitars made in these factories in this price range and always felt disappointed but I wouldnt have been expecting miracles in the first place.

You would have probably had to get a higher range Ibanez - lets say a Jem, to be fully satisfied with it. Everyone is always going on about the value of midrange Ibanez, but having played a few in the past few weeks in my guitar hunt I've usually found that they felt cheap and the necks were running at odd angles at about the 7th fret.

How straight is the neck btw?

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Nov 18 2007, 09:16 AM
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QUOTE (Owen @ Nov 18 2007, 02:00 AM) *
To be fair, you expected a relatively cheap Ibanez made in Japan or somewhere distant, to better or match a 1961 Gibson Les Paul?

Thats some pretty high expectations, I can see why you'd be getting frustrated, I've played a few guitars made in these factories in this price range and always felt disappointed but I wouldnt have been expecting miracles in the first place.

You would have probably had to get a higher range Ibanez - lets say a Jem, to be fully satisfied with it. Everyone is always going on about the value of midrange Ibanez, but having played a few in the past few weeks in my guitar hunt I've usually found that they felt cheap and the necks were running at odd angles at about the 7th fret.

How straight is the neck btw?


That 's one of the problems - The neck had too much relief. The Intonation was way off on the D string. Of course me being the idiot of floating bridges, every time I fixed something - then stuff was really going wrong somewhere else. I guess some folks have good luck with these guitars, but I demand perfection - it has to be in perfect tune - which is a crap shoot with these floating trems - plus I have tried my best to match the "action" or string Height of these guitars - no way - I have got better results with a $200 YAMAHA STRAT.

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- WTN   Ibanez Edge Iii Question   Nov 17 2007, 04:40 AM
- - Pavel   It should look like this:   Nov 17 2007, 06:55 AM
|- - WTN   QUOTE (Pavel @ Nov 16 2007, 11:55 PM) It ...   Nov 17 2007, 08:33 AM
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- - Muris   I believe you should make a line with body horizon...   Nov 17 2007, 06:59 AM
- - The Uncreator   The bridge should be paralled with the body. just ...   Nov 17 2007, 08:36 AM
- - WTN   QUOTE (WTN @ Nov 16 2007, 09:40 PM) Just ...   Nov 17 2007, 09:08 AM
|- - botoxfox   QUOTE (WTN @ Nov 17 2007, 01:08 AM) Here....   Nov 17 2007, 03:29 PM
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- - WTN   QUOTE (WTN @ Nov 16 2007, 09:40 PM) Just ...   Nov 17 2007, 11:53 AM
|- - WTN   QUOTE (WTN @ Nov 17 2007, 04:53 AM) OK - ...   Nov 18 2007, 07:59 AM
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- - peterorg54   omg i was thinking about buying this guitar for m...   Nov 17 2007, 12:20 PM
|- - WTN   QUOTE (peterorg54 @ Nov 17 2007, 05:20 AM...   Nov 18 2007, 08:24 AM
|- - Twibeard   QUOTE (peterorg54 @ Nov 17 2007, 12:20 PM...   Nov 18 2007, 06:42 PM
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- - The Uncreator   Read my review on my RG350MDX, exact same guitar, ...   Nov 17 2007, 01:21 PM
- - kevin-riff-after-riff   right, what you want is to screw the screws in as ...   Nov 18 2007, 04:23 AM
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- - Owen   Tis unfortunate, you might just have been unlucky ...   Nov 18 2007, 09:28 AM
|- - WTN   QUOTE (Owen @ Nov 18 2007, 02:28 AM) Tis ...   Nov 18 2007, 10:19 AM
|- - WTN   QUOTE (WTN @ Nov 18 2007, 03:19 AM) No do...   Nov 18 2007, 10:31 AM
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- - Understudy   I had a point to make here, but I will keep my mou...   Nov 18 2007, 01:55 PM
- - Understudy   Sorry WTN, the point I was going to make was not i...   Nov 18 2007, 02:52 PM
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- - Paul Coutts   stop complaining, and spend time with it, took me ...   Nov 21 2007, 08:02 AM
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