In the untold story Ibanez book, it mentions that there was a design flaw with the nut with Ibanez's Edge interpretation of the OFR, and that Kramer didn't want Ibanez to find out, but Mr Floyd Rose pointed it out to Ibanez.
Anyone know more details about what the problem was?
I find it remarkable that Ibanez up to and including 1990 would feature these incorrectly mounted/cast TopLok IIIs in their catalogues, did they really use them that long?:
Even worse, when I first bought my Jem ('91) my engineering eye immediately noticed the TopLok in old catalogue was mounted differently and that the 1991 way should be correct. Kinda makes you wonder what they were doing al those years, considering the Edge was 5years old in 1991:
The bevel is there so that it can be higher on one side, ie. straddle the low E and A strings. If you've even tightened one of these early pads, the bolt is only biting on the high side, and it squeaks and grinds.
Kramer! The biggest "what if" in guitar history!
What if... we got EVH to actually sit down and create a real sig guitar?
What if... we landed Steve Vai?
What if... we decided to care about quality on our low-mid range guitars rather than allow our reputation to be ruined?
Sad really.... they could have been a contender! They could've been somebody!
I have little bit experience of maintaining and repairing the guitars.
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