"Ah! THAT's where I stashed them!" was my reaction when I found the guitar maintenance leaflets that were freely included in the boxes when I bought my 2 ibanez guitars, which I had lost, again, while trying to put them somewhere easily accessible. The concepts described in these manuals for these guitars can be usually applied to other guitars as well. Even if optimum measurements may vary slightly, I think these documents are a good source for getting started.

I met many ibanez owners who didn't get those manuals with their guitars so, if nothing else, this entry is for them.

This is a link to the actual document central of Ibanez

http://www.ibanez.com/support/

where you can find the most up-to-date versions of the documents. It is worth taking a look at those, because they do have some very informative schematics.

If you want a closer hands-on look into floating-type bridge setup and restringing, you can view my tutorial here: http://www.guitar.com/kimonf/blog/howto_restring_and_set_up_a_floyd

These are selections taken all from the manuals and they cover the most needed topics of guitar life.

Enjoy!

- RG -