Tuning stability

[kpinks]

Hi I am fairly new to this forum. I just bought an Ibanez Prestige RGT220H.
Obviously I need to change the pups in this guitar as I do not care for the stock pups. Very nice guitar, but I do have issues with tuning stability. I balanced the tremolo bridge, put new strings on and "stretched" them like crazy. Now when I lock the nut and do a few dive bombs, and check the tuning, I have to use the fine tuners quite a bit to tune back to pitch. Sometimes the fine tuner bottoms out in doing so. What else can I do to improve the tuning stability? Should I go crazy with the whammy and then unlock the nut, set fine tuners midway and retune a couple of times?
Thx
Kev

[lyconxero]

The fine tuners should be more or less in the middle when you start off and the strings should be stretched quite a bit more than you would for a guitar with a fixed bridge. I used to have tuning problems with my RG but I quickly discovered that I hadn't stretched the strings nearly enough. I generally stretch all the strings GOOD atleast 3 times and twice as many times with the bass strings.

[SUSTAINIAC]

The problem could also be trem related. You get wear between the locking pins and the trem edge so when it can move when the whammy bar is depressed. A tech will be able to file the slots to fix the problem.

[SUSTAINIAC]

The problem could also be trem related. You get wear between the locking pins and the trem edge so when it can move when the whammy bar is depressed. A tech will be able to file the slots to fix the problem.

[SUSTAINIAC]

The problem could also be trem related. You get wear between the locking pins and the trem edge so it can move when the whammy bar is depressed. A tech will be able to file the slots to fix the problem.