So in the last two years ive been obsessed with your videos and ive learned a ton. Got myself my basic setup tools and learned on my own guitars and helping friends. Today I made my first official setup as a Guitar Tech on a local shop. Im very grateful for all the knowledge youve shared with me and all the money youve saved me.

Dave always reminds me in the 80s when someone would work on their hot rod , we’d all gathered around to drink beer and watch 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Hello Davey... Glad to see you're doing well, and haven't lost your touch... Cheers. 🍻

Love all the intros and as always, fun to watch you work

Alright my friend another video you are spoiling us all thanks Dave and stay healthy we need you😜

Great video Dave ! That intro was cool too !

The best intro yet, Thanks Dave

Thanx for another great vid, Dave. Extra apt for me as I have an RG myself. The tuners on mine are fine but when locked at the nut "the high e" still goes out of tune within seconds. Dunno whether that's common or not? Bottomer. Anyhoo, important stuff: Glad to see you're back to your best in learning us "minnions" :) about cool guitar luthierings and stuff. Oh, I've had eye problems recently and it taught me to prioritize. Health is more important than all the other crap we care about.

A new Dave's, HELL YEAH! My night just got better

Having a great brithday. Another Dave's World of Fun video. Rock'n roll all night and party everyday, with a nap! LOL

Had to do the same spring thing on my old vester superstrat after they went all slobby like that. But did get it back in order though n still playin it. Much of what I learned for sortin out my own stuff I picked up here.

Thanks for the videos, I watch almost every night. Thank you

Hey Davey man good to see your all good as it should, well I hope your well buddy!

Liked immediately. My favorite intro, the recorder playing paramount productions jingle

I have 2 of those Korean RG 220b's from the 90's, a silver one and a black one. Mine have the whammy that you just feed the string through, no little piece of lead to lose and no trimming the little brass endpiece off. It's the best whammy system I have seen. The springs eventually get weak on whammies. So buy some extra springs, but keep the tired springs, like they are 1/2 of a spring now. Also don't be afraid to move the springs around like more on the low end so the bridge floats evenly

Hey man I love your videos I really learn a lot keep up gud work.. From myrtle beach SC, USA

I will check back in 3 day's to see how you made out, good luck mate !!! 😁🖒✌

Who could have manifested such infinite patience with that f*k*ng trem??? Dave of course!! you are the man.

Dave with Ibanez trems there is sometimes a small grub screw inside the trem post (1.5mm key I think) if the posts don't go down it could be because of them. It would be worth checking they are backed out (if the posts have them...) before trying to lower the posts.

I wish I could find a mechanic with so much care,passion and love for his craft.

Glad you are doing well .

Great stuff, very educational!

“We’ll burn that bridge once we cross it”, Dave you’re a beauty.

I have an '92 RG750 with a FloydRose tremlo that I had since I was a kid. Thinking back it was never right from the start. Action too high out of intonation warped neck and eventually frets worn from me playing it a lot. About 20 years later I took it out of storage and had it worked on by one of the best Luthiors on Long Island. He really pulled a rabbit out of his hat it's better than it ever was. Sounds great real easy to play compared to before it's like a new guitar. Wife upset because I'm up many nights playing it. I can hardly put it down.

Thats an ibanez edge trem ,It's really hard to tell in the video .but an Ibanez edge trem don't go parallel with the body like a Floyd rose cause of the sloped design . It does have a parallel mark/line on the low E side of trem to use as a reference .

You're cranking them out. Nice. How are your eyes besides the eye drops? Light sensitivity ok?

Sustain on that guitar sounds awesome as does harmonic sustain.

Would have been great to see how you did the neck shim Dave.

Hilarious Intro Dave.

I used to have one of those. Mine stayed in tune really good.

I have one of those , i strung it with ernie balls, i modified the screws in the neck and added washers, i found the neck wanted to warp with heavier strings. I just found you, see your phones listen cuz how else would the tube know to suggest this.. peace brotha

I owned one this exact guitar a few years ago and it was great guitar. Not the best stock pickups, did custom ones and it really un-muddy-ed the tone. I miss 24 frets. The Wizard neck is thin and flat.

I was wondering if you tried dropping the bridge down at the deck? I'm sure you did. I was amazed at the neck shim thought. Wow. And the RG is actually a "step up" or 2 from alot of the cheapo I been ezzeds....ess.....ha ha Thx dude.

Hey Dave, I have tried to find a source to buy one of the half pencils you use, but I can't find them on any of the guitar supply store websites. Do you have a source, or do you make them yourself?

Friends, before adjusting the bridge posts on an Ibanez made after 1992, always check INSIDE the bridge post. They placed a little tiny locking screw inside, that you have to loosen with a smaller allen key, before turning the larger main post with the larger allen key. I assume Dave checked before turning the post for all it was worth and it didn't have one - for sure you'd have heard him complain for 5 minutes about it if it was there. Oh and there are higher-tension springs you can get if the 3 aren't cutting it for you. Not recommended to put in 4, because then you can't use the retainer bar, and then a spring could pop out on a pull-up. Cheers!

Love the recorder intro hahaha. Good job once again ungooching the axe.

All those floating bridges are easy to set up....block the trem off so it's in the right position (a floyd will lay flat with the body and most ibanez have a bass plate that you can see on the bass side of the trem and should be parallel with the body.....) once the block is in undo the locking nuts and tune the guitar then lock the nuts and remove the block then tune by adjusting the screws on the claw....just a slight turn on each making sure the claw is not at an angle once tuned.....then use the fine tuners.....simple. ....string tension=spring tension.....think of it as a set of scales ....equal tension on each side......

that intro flute player sounded like David Carradine playing it on the old Kung Fu Tv series..... 🤣

The Floyd Rose system is quite annoying to set up, but it does work well. Dave did a mighty fine job not losing his cool.

I have a ibanez rg rebuild thats my main guitar with fixed bridge. The tuning stability is great considering, but it seems like my low e is going flat way more often than I would like and sharp after sitting overnight sometimes. I still have not recorded the relief from one day to the next, which I plan on doing. The question is disregarding neckpocket, crappy truss rod, and headstock should I maybe just try more expensive strings? Im using the most mass produced cheapest brand, and wondering if I need to shop using them. They start with an E.

some of those floating bridges come from the factory set at 15 degrees , so yea if you change that your gonna have to change the entire set up of the guitar , good way to strum up business tho.

I found an RG370 (moon shadow finish) used for $139 at Guitar Center a few years and snatched it up as an impulse buy, as I was taken by it's good sparkly looks. However, after cleaning it and setting it up (I've got a lot of experience with Ibanez Edge, TRS, Lo TRS II, ILT1 trem), I could not get a decent feel from the trem. It would stay in tune, but IIRC, it required brute force to push down on the bar, and the bar felt like it would snap. (I think it's 6mm in diameter.) When I removed a spring, and went down to two springs, the feel improved but tuning stabilty decreased. I tried a brand new set of Fender tremolo springs, and even mixed and matched, but this trem felt unlike any other. Big disappointment. I thought about keeping it with the bridge blocked, but I am a whammy guy all the way, so I sold it.

When they are set up properly they do run better than some strats, but a strat is easier for just practicing around the house.

Thats crazy. I use 10s on my rg 5ex1 and it's great.those must be like 12s or some really weak springs

You cant burn bridges if they're brass... they just melt lower than steel.

It's 3am and I don't even have a guitar with a tremolo. Yet here I am.

I have a 90’s version of that guitar!

I had to take my RG apart, the previous owner had put a cheese sandwich in the bridge. Can't wait to paint it.

first time we changed the strings on mine we just stopped grabbed a saw a hunk of hard wood and block stopped it so it can dive but not tugg lol its the kind of guitar if you see it got stolen out of your car you dont even bother to call the cops lol luv u dave oxox

I have learned that with locking nuts it's best to tune the b and e string a little sharp and the A and E string a little flat before locking them down. When they lcck it equals out.

I've got 2 different Ibanez edge trems sitting in my mailbox right now... Going to adapt an intonation tool for them. I'm guessing I've got my work cut out for me. Fun to watch you whip this one into shape. Take care Dave.

I have owned my Rg420 roadstar 2 twin humbucker since about 1988.

Some of those studs have a small setscrew in the center of them .

Best intro theme song!

YOU'RE DOING GOD'S WORK, SON. I really appreciate your work. I learn a lot from your videos. And the Ibanez of mine that you fixed is rockin' haaaard. Can't keep it in tune (you were correct - the tuners are shite) but I will be "talking" with you about that soon... Cheers mate!

Holy fuck dave you have that string tree on upside down

ibanez sells a tool similar to the floyd rose key but its for there trems only

Gooch family, one question what pickups are the most cheap(under 120 bucks or so) but awesome to replicate a late 50s strat sound? Thanks!

“We’ll burn that bridge once we cross it”

the best portion of the repair process 13:09

And when you get to the end... stop! Every trem equipped guitar I’ve had could have used some spare parts and none of them came with spare parts. Fender reluctantly sent me an entire replacement bridge assembly for an expensive strat that had a bridge with some bad parts. A replacement bridge assembly, to salvage parts from, should come with every high end guitar

And job Dave Peace

That intro gets me tho

That intro just kills me. LMFAO

I work on all types of trems I've never seen springs stretched out like that before, the tension is the same on any guitar, those springs are bad. I've owned an RG before and that's a lower model, I grew to hate the flat backs of the Wizard II necks

If you want to put a higher gauge on a guitar you have to add extra springs to keep the tension

R yer eyes any better lad? I hope so man. Cheers Dave.

You can do it!!!

Glad the mince pies are OK now.

all notes plucked by the neck will give away a truly in tune note open tunings of course

I'm 5 seconds in and I don't even need to see what's going on. I had this same guitar once and went through all this and now I have anxiety again

0:40 - What do you mean by "those guitars were never meant for those strings"? I recently tranformed a Yamaha RGX 312 (which has Yamaha's kind of FR trem system) into a B-tuned baritone guitar with a set of D'Addario XL120-7 (7 strings, leaving the high E string out), so from B to B the string gauges are 011-054. I had to remove the middle spring because the bridge was sinking into its hole, even with those strings! :p

Nice

Ibanez Rg 370 korea?

I’m glad he went back to the intonation. He kept saying it was good enough and it definitely wasn’t.

You need to be an engineer to work on one of those.

The flute of terror! Not again! 😬

I BEEN HAD !!

You put the string tree on upside down.

I still say that Floyd Rose's wife ran off with some guitarist, and building his creation was his way of payback.

My first guitar was one of these and now I know why the bridge was like that lol

I have that same guitar in same finish. Its a 270

the tremelo cavity is too short look at a evh wolfgang tremelo cavity way longer

There are levels of guitar repair states. The most common of them being "gooched". Beyond that is the very rare "whacked" state of repair. You do not want your guitar to reach this state.

I just bought a 1987 RG550...it’s going to a tech, I’m not going through this shit 😂

I have no idea why I find this fascinating. I may need help.

lookin svelte davey bet you're driving the ladies up the walls

A set of 9's or even 10's are plenty for those guitars, as they chug easily on 9's.

Whoever had this guitar doesn't know how to stretch the strings properly when setting up a Floyd-style bridge. I have the same exact Edge (Edge Pro) in my Ibanez JS1000. I have had zero issues (except fret wear) with the guitar in the 10 years I've owned it.

Tuned to itself OR TO CONCERT PITCH???

Guitar looks like a cafe roadster.

I use .10 to .46 on my Ibanez RG350MDX, and I have 3 springs.

I’ve owned 2 Ibanez RG guitars in my life. Both were made in Japan, Prestige models. The Edge tremolo system is garbage. Neither one would stay in tune. The first guitar had a mahogany body with maple neck and two pickups. The high E string was hanging off the neck because the neck pocket was crooked. It had been shimmed from the factory and it was still crap. The second guitar had a single humbucker on it. I blocked the trem to keep it from moving to solve the tuning problems. While the construction and playability were ok, the guitar had a basswood body. Basswood is a cheap and terrible sounding wood. I never could get good tones out of that guitar. I owned a Mesa 50 watt single rectifier at the time so I had a good amp. It wasn’t the amp. Ibanez is a lot like Gibson in my experience. Quality control is hit or miss. They make excellent guitars for their artist, but the average consumer never knows what they’re going to get. Ibanez is a budget guitar brand masquerading as premium. Their guitars are overpriced and they under perform.

Instead of the Floyd intonation tool, you can use the Ibanez one (EJK1000). www.killerburstguitars.com/product-page/ibanez-ejk1000-intonation-tool

Ibenhad before by one of these too

Ive been had guitar...

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One of the most difficult tremelo bridges to work on.

Those RG and Jem Jr in the cheap category are terrible in a lot of cases, Ibanez doesn't really have good guitars until you hit the $800+ Coretek(Indonesian) made guitars, I have seen so many twisted necks and a problem with Truss Rods where you end up with an S shape slightly below the locking nut that causes fret buzz when there should be none on a supposed straight neck. Floyd Rose aren't that bad, they just require a little bit of extra work on the setup, but the system is made to use 9's not 10's, I mean you can do it but I don't recommend it, shredder guitar but making it harder on yourself for no reason. Get an Allparts Tremolo-no it will save you time and makes it less a pain in the ass to setup.

Edge tremolo is better than floyd rose in my opinion not as noisy smoother less play no knocking when used