TUTORIAL: Guitar Maintenance Manual (light edition)
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"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 blog 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

 
All manuals are copyrighted to Ibanez, but I don't see any stated prohibition to reproduce these manuals (they are free after all and I don't intend to take any credit for them) so I'm gonna shoot some screenshots and host them elsewhere, just so that I have something more to show in this page. I don't think Ibanez will take down the support pages from their site and I don't see why they would change the url either so my copying the stuff here is just for "decoration" of this blog page with some of the most common issues.
 
These are selections taken all from the manuals and they cover the most needed topics of guitar life.






 
 
Enjoy!
- RG -


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