Ibanez RG550L-DY

In all my years of playing guitar I always said I'd stay away from Floyd Rose/Edge style tremolo's. Although I like the sound effects they can produce I never wanted to be bother by learning how to set them up and also they weren't that necessary for me. Until my friend recently inspired me so I decided to give it a go.

I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a guitar that I might not like because of the bridge but I also know that if you are gonna go down this road it's best to go for a quality bridge and not one of those licensed by floyd rose models as they can be a hit or miss (and from what I read it's usually a miss) so this guitar hit the sweet spot between a quality trem and a price that I was still willing to pay.

By now I knew how to set up and maintain this type of bridge in theory I never actually done it. The first time the set up took me almost 1,5 hours. It was annoying but I already anticipated that. After that it got a lot easier. All in all I must say that the set up of these type of bridges is more annoying than hard. I was struggling a bit but that's mostly in the beginning. It's stay fairly nice in tune even after some nice whammy bar action. All in all the set up was not as difficult as I thought and I enjoy this guitar a lot.

The color is obnoxiously bright and I love it. I like the maple fretboard and the tilted heel joint is although not ideal (I prefer an all access neck joint) it's is not a big problem for me at all. I don't like the 9-42 strings it comes with but that preference because I haven't played 9-42's for 5 years so I'll slap my standard 10-46 on it soon and set up the bridge again.

All in all buying this guitar was a gamble but it worked out well and I am glad I have it. I will never by another floating bridge guitar though. Not because I hate them but one is enough for me and I am still a hardtail guy. So even though I'm a hardtail / fixed bridge guy by heart do I enjoy playing on this yellow beast a lot. This was a gamble and it played out very nicely.