tremolo arm...forward dumped or up-pulled

[budalash]

Hi fellow guitar freaks..
With kind help from someone from this community I have installed an SH-4 on my Ibanez...and the difference is more than obvious..
but, the stupid cheap Ibanez guitars (I didn't have money for anything better at the moment) have always had problems with string tuning, action and the position of the tremolo arm when you remove the strings completely, like I had to in order to install the SH -4..
now I can't get it back in tune, and I have been reading the manual about the position of the tremolo bridge which should be parallel to the body..
and they say to tighten the screws of the bridge if forward dumped..
now, English is not my mothertongue and I don't know which one means what..
Is forward dumped when the tremolo bridge sinks into the body or vice versa?
thanks in advance
p.s. SH-4 rocks!!!!

 

[budalash]

Re: tremolo arm...forward dumped or up-pulled

stupid question, disregard it, I thought about it for 2 seconds and figured it out:duh:

 

[Dave Z]

Re: tremolo arm...forward dumped or up-pulled

"forward dumped" must mean: bridge read above body, bridge front down towards body.

Like: a divebomb

Tightening the springs in the trem cavity will straighten it out.

Don't feel bad sounds like the engineer who write the directions was also not a native English speaker!

 

[Zerberus]

Re: tremolo arm...forward dumped or up-pulled

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Don't feel bad sounds like the engineer who write the directions was also not a native English speaker!

Not surprising considering the axe´s origin

 

[budalash]

Re: tremolo arm...forward dumped or up-pulled

"forward dumped" must mean: bridge read above body, bridge front down towards body.

Like: a divebomb

Tightening the springs in the trem cavity will straighten it out.

Don't feel bad sounds like the engineer who write the directions was also not a native English speaker!

yes, thanks, everything is working now
I should also say that my Ibanez RG350EX-BK is a very good guitar for the money, I have just figured it out...the neck is fast, ideal for those Satrian-Vai like legatos acroos all strings
I believe it was cheap/ish/ because of the bad pickups..but I am on my way to solve that problem/s/, one by one...
next week when I forget how frustrating it is to remove the pickguard and solder the wires I am going to buy an SH-2 for the neck position and that should be much better than what I have now:dance:
thanks again!
cheers!

 

[Dave Z]

Re: tremolo arm...forward dumped or up-pulled

Hey, if the RG has a pickguard like a strat - pickups mount to the guard - you can put quick-connects on the tremolo ground wire and the output wires.

That way, you can loosen the strings, pop out the pickguard, slip it under the strings, flip it over, disconnect the quick-connect, then place he pickguard on the bench and work on it without having to worry about burning your finish on the guitar!

I did this with several strats I have had (down to 1 strat now...) and I can swap an entire pickguard in about 5 minutes.