So, not two weeks are past since i bought this guitar and i'm starting to believe the ones (everybody basically) that said that the Edge tremolo in the rgr465 is crap. I disassembled it completely to the last piece.
It's a complex tremolo well built and designed, to me, much better than a floyd rose... but does it keep your strings in tune? hum, not exactly, the thing is, they are in tune, but after you use the tremolo, if you ended with a bar pull, than all the strings will be pitched up, and the reverse too, so it will be in tune itself, but if you're playing with someone, or along some music, you'll notice something doesn't sound so right anymore. I had the Original Floyd Rose Special (OFRS) waiting to be tried, and i haven't seen anyone who attemted this, so i switched the tremolo.
This is how it looks --->
as you can see, the routing isn't perfect but everything else is fine.
Also I had to keep the ibanez studs, because they are slimmer, but they hold up pretty well. There's a bit of play in them, but so in the OFRS
The locking nut are exact copies! you can switch them or switch only the screws.
So, the tremolo seems to be built in a high quality stell, and its well designed, so i dont understand what causing this unstability. I'm gonna switch the springs now (the original ones are crap too), and see how it behaves. Another thins I forgot to mention, is that if you set the saddle farther back as possible for intonation purposes, than the routing is to enough for the string locking screw to go "inside" the guitar. Also one cool feature about the ibanez is that you can put the arm on top, and install this in a left hand guitar, but you'll have to drill the metal plate that covers the hole. Both weight about the same.
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