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Gah - I meant the fretboard was very flat/concaved not the neck

Thats very, VERY nice

It's about urm 5mm I think (it's at home right now) - might be a bit more though. The mahogony body is really nice too!

Urm.... LOL it does? You sure? I've never seen them on my JS1000, Jem7VWH or this RG... where would they be located? Any pics of them?

All done Low action, no dead bits when pulling up on the trem now - it's all gravy

Thanks for the advice

yes he is sure - they are located in the middle of the trem posts - and are a small allen bolt which screws down into the body. There are pics on Jemsite (although not good ones). If you adjust the posts without unlocking them, you can chew the body up, which will cause instability.

Cheers

EEEEEEEEEEK - jesus - never knew about that!

it was fretdressed... and the RG is the only one I might have ballsed up... but it seems fine - heck, it's intune Will remember that for the future - ta guys!

Are they acting like an expanding bolt, threaded through the socket bottoms, or just pushing against the base of the post sockets, like a sort of lock-nut?

Here's a blown-apart parts diagram from the user manual that's supplied with each guitar. You can see the thin locking bolt underneath the right hand side trem post. The trem post itself is hollow and the supplied small wrench (1.5mm?) slips down inside to allow you to lock/unlock the post in-situ.

When tightened down, the bolt locks the trem post into the stud insert that is in the body - guaranteeing that the trem post will never move even under the most severe wangage.

Common problems with tuning stability on Ibanez guitars like this is... sometimes the lock-bolt is not sufficiently tightened at the factory so the guitar ships in a state that means the stability will drift out. A further common problem is that trem-height adjustment with the locking bolt engaged will either drive the lockbolt into the body of the guitar or strip the thread from the stud insert and/or trempost.

Fixing this is a nasty job as pulling the stud insert is not for the faint

They go right through, so I presume its the expanding type - although there doesn't seem to be any real expansion involved as such (it just appears to be a bolt within the post - an internal thread within a bolt, sort of thing)

There again, I haven't tried moving a locked one, so I don't know how effective it is either - but I'm sure its there for a good reason.

Cheers

James Screaton wrote

/me bites lip and grimaces

Reminds me of when I opened up a Zenith SLR camera using the 'obvious' screws on the base plate. The correct procedure was via a sequence of more hidden fixings in the top, which avoids the focal-plane shutter mechanism springing and hanging unravelled from the bottom of the camera.

That'll teach you. You unprofessional tinkerer, you!