Edge Iii Bridges, What are they? |
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Jun 14 2007, 07:23 PM
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anyone? please, i gotta know this if i wanna buy a new guitar.
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Jun 14 2007, 07:31 PM
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QUOTE (FretDancer69 @ Jun 14 2007, 02:23 PM)  anyone? please, i gotta know this if i wanna buy a new guitar. Its a Floyd Rose style bridge I think licensed. It has all the plusses and minuses you'd expect from the whole FR thing. I don't have one so can;t say much more than that except that not all FRs are created equal, and I rememer reading that the Edge III is one of the suckier ones, as opposed to for instance the Edge Pro you get on the Prestige models. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Jun 14 2007, 08:10 PM
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The Pro can lock the string with the ball still attached. The Edge III locks the string with a block. It's happend, at least to me but only a few times, that a string has slid out. Perhaps it has happened to me two times in 15 years... so to me it's not even a problem.
EDIT: That was with the Jackson FR, not the Edge III, but they are made the same way. END: Don't know if Pro and Edge III are made of different material, I think so. Perhaps someone else knows for sure. That could be an issue of uneven quality in the Edge III tremolos. I don't own a Pro so I can't compare, I just can say that my Edge III and Floyd Rose licenced by Jackson work equaly well. So it's wrong to say they are crap, at least I've been lucky. Like Andrew says I also saw that in another thread but in my opinion it's just wrong. But that's from my experience, hard facts could say something else. My guess is that if you get a Pro you may see advantages with it compared to lower end tremolos. With that experience I'm sure you can say a Pro is better. But from where I stand you can't say an Edge III is crap, it works very well for me. Perhaps I've just been lucky and got away with a good Edge III trem and most others are crap, I don't know that either since I havn't owned more than the one in my own Ibanez. The FR licenced by Jackson I've had for many years and it's always been good to me. And surely, if you have a FR trem and just hate it there's a possibility to put a piece of wood behind the trem inside to lock it. One in front aswell to lock it both ways. Viola you have a fixed bridge. I know, that's not what you want when you get a FR but it's a way out. This post has been edited by MickeM: Jun 14 2007, 08:20 PM -------------------- My bands homepage
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Jun 14 2007, 08:48 PM
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The cheapest Prestige is still double an RG350's price, If you can afford it though, buy it without hesitation.
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