nut pads

I notice Rich has two 43mm nuts listed for the RG series: Japanese and Korean, with two different parts nos. Are they the same size (e.g., depth)? I've just received a 1998 RG 570 that seems to have a _way_ high nut; the action over the first fret is _huge_. I just took the nut off to see if...

I was playing my 1999 570 last night and it would not stay in tune. I've been having that problem with it lately, but it was unplayable last night. The strings are Slinkys and about 2 weeks old, so I don't think they are the problem. I am worried that it might be the trem; i.e. the edges of the...

hey! im new here. anyway, im looking for a bridge w/ locking tuners but not a tremolo. b/c i am currently building a project guitar and the body is an Ibanez rg321 and i dont want to mess w/ routing out a cavity and all for a tremolo but i need a locking bridge b/c my nut is locking. any help guys?

Clearing out the 6 strings except my semi-hollow.. So this must go unfortunately. Its an Ibanez RGT42DXFMDR which stands for Neckthru RG with Dark Red Flame maple top. Mahogany body, with Edge Pro II trem. Switched it for Dimarzio DSonic 6 bridge and Seymour Duncan Jazz neck pickups. Blue...

The Gigir guitar thread got me thinking.... Imagine for a minutes that Rich found $5000 laying around in an old guitar case, and in an absurd burst of charity, decided to give you $5000 credit toward anything he sells. What would you get? I guess the debate is, if you worked your butt off and...

After i set my guitar up to how i like it, the whammy bar seems pretty damn low. Do people bend the angles of there whammy bar? how far should the bar be from the pick gaurd?

Well on wednesday I recieved a 1570MRB as a birthday present and I have to say its abolutely marvelous!! The neck is awesome, vary thin and fast, i was actually worried i wouldn´t like the neck but i love it!! The trem is wonderful too, 100% in tune all the time and i like the pups. The thing is...

Eh.. Im getting better at painting, still not great though. but its coming along. Bored with normal RG7620 and wanted to do one humbucker for now while im waiting for my Chris Woods guitar, so I also decided to do a DY because it was the only colour of paint I actually had around, go figure...

Well, I got my RG2610 in today, set it up, and I absolutely love it. Here are the pics of my new killer 6 string and my killer 7. Somehow when the 2610 came in today the locking nuts had worked their way out of the neck during shipping and I had to literaly rip my Prestige case padding up to get...

Guys pls solve my mistery about my guitar . It is ibanez rg from 97 . Pickups are V7 V8 S1 and TRS licenced floyd . Serial code is :F97 30069 and picture:

So I was playing my JS1000BP late last night because I couldn't sleep and something odd happened.... As I pulled on the bar when I did a pinched harmonic on the G string, I heard a subtle "pop" sound. Although none of the strings broke, the G string went out of tune. When I unlocked the nut...

I have for sale or for trade an Ibanez S7420FMTT. The guitar is in good condition. It has a few nicks/dings here and there around the edges, but nothing extreme or out of the ordinary. The frets have a LITTLE bit of wear to them, but again that's to be expected of a guitar of this age (it's a...

(ibanez) i always tune my ibanez edge pro by unscrewing the locking nuts and tune it there instead of down @ the tremolo...

180107531856 look at the pictures at the bottom... "before the swirl" i haven't seen many neckthrough ibanez in my life... so... yea... any help?

I've got two RG550RFs from the 'early days' but both have lost their serial number stickers from the back of the headstock. Being Road Flare Red they can only be form either of those two years but is there any way I can work out if they're '87 or '88 models without the serial number?

I recently purchased an RG1570 and this is my first floating bridge instrument. I am discovering just how much of a nightmare these things can be. I attempted to follow a poorly written guide to tune the guitar out of the box and ended up pulling the bridge up more and more without having any...

Well I went in to my local store last week and while browsing noticed that a number of the new 2007 models were appearing on the shelfs. A few new S series (320, that blue flame quilt) and RGs (no new Japanese ones yet). I saw the new MTM2 sitting there and I thought I'd give it a bit of a...

Hey guys… Newbie post’r and very longtime reader. I really need some help and would sincerely appreciate any and all help! I promise I have read all of Rich’s pages and the pages here on Jem Site about set up issues and the 1000s of trem issues posts. I even paid $$$ to a respected guitar...

im having serious issues with tuning my floating bridge, i havent played it because i cannot tune it and i wanna just smash the thing out of the window. I have tried cross tuning, over tuning, ive looked at every freaking guide on the net, but I just cannot tune it, if im lucky it gets -10 on...

I mean the ridges on the three pads on your locking nuts, of course. Do you have them aligned with the strings so the ridges are vertical? Or do you align them with themselves so the ridges are horizontal? I prefer the horizontal look myself. Unfortunately, Ibanez locking nuts for a long...