New Ibanez Trem

[Flatpicker]

Hi, Can anybody here read Japanese?
This Guitar looks really cool, and I think that trem looks interesting, but I can't read the details.

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/japan/archive/product_news/2008Prestige/SV5470F.html

[S-man]

Basically a ZR trem with the fine tuners chopped off. It is a ballbearing type trem and has a khaler feel to it.

That guitar also comes with locking tuners and a graphite nut.

[Flatpicker]

Does it fit on current ZR/Floyd posts?

[BTB007]

It's called the Edge Zero.

[S-man]

It's called the Edge Zero.

No it's not. That's the Knife edged trem. This one is ball bearing.

[S-man]

Does it fit on current ZR/Floyd posts?

The ZR is different from a floyd.

[Drazden]

Hopefully they don't have the 'click' the ZRs have when returning to the zero point.

[S-man]

Never had that problem with mine.

[cdwillis]

My S520 with the ZR was doing the click noise when returning to zero but then it quit doing it one day. Never did figure out what was doing it. Personally I think the ZR that looks like the wilkinson would be cool. Just seems easier to me to bend strings when there's no locking nut.

[Drazden]

In all the ones I've noodled with in the shop, there's a noticeable 'click.' Maybe it goes away once you play with it for a while.

It's been driving one of my student nuts--he'll be really happy if it goes away on its own.

[S-man]

Two things....Tighten the trem arm...they always become loose and then BREAK.

And...remove the ZPS widget.

[BenoA]

From the link posted above:

SyncroniZR Tremolo Bridge




ZR-II Tremolo Bridge




Edge-Zero



This guitar is quite gorgeous:



For those with the latest Guitar Player mag (February 2008 issue), there is an Ibanez' ad showing a quilted S model with 24 frets "S". It looks pretty interesting...

[BenoA]

Here is the ad from the latest Guitar Player mag...