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Author Message   Bambusa Username: Bambusa Registered: 9-2007 Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 12:51 am:    Hi all, I am looking for an edge 2(?) Ibanez Floyd Rose bridge set up with the 94mm post hole centres. Does anyone in Aus have one they want to sell? Cheers   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 5:05 am:    What exactly is it that you want? An Ibanez Edge (for sale on eBay right now, last bid $24.50) or an Ibanez Edge Pro 2 ??? And if you are not sure... For what model guitar? Ginger   Bambusa Username: Bambusa Registered: 9-2007 Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 5:32 am:    Ibanez Edge to suit a 87 RG550. (I've actually borrowed the one that was on there for another project) I can see em on ebay $28AUS just seeing if anyone from Australia had one they wanted to get rid of. (cheaper shipping and quicker delivery )i would prefer a black or nickel coloured one if possible....   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 1:27 pm:    I have one, but there's a custom built Hillman attached to it. If you have it, I know a website with the tremolo adjustment manual. I'll look it up for you. Ah, there it is: www.ibanez.com/support/manuals/guitars_w-locking.p df Ginger   Bambusa Username: Bambusa Registered: 9-2007 Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 6:59 am:    Custom built Hilman...my folks uses to have a Hilman minx...is it the same thing?   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 3:44 pm:    Mine is a Hillman Longhorn. These handbuilt guitars originally have some tune-o-matic bridge with a stop bar like a Les Paul or ES-335. The luthier who builds them is Henk van de Heuvel (heuvel means hill). He's from 's-Hertogenbosch, or as we say Den Bosch. I had met him when a luthier I visited so every now and then appeared to have collapsed in his workshop. The doctor had forbidden him to continue to work all alone with nobody around, so he had sold all his equipment to Hillman, and they were busy collecting his stuff, which was mainly for acoustic guitar building (nylon strings). Van de Heuvel was going to export the equipment to... KOREA. But there were several tools that were not interesting for him or for export... but they were for me! So that's how I knew him. Then, once upon a time I had to be in Den Bosch, to deliver some sworn translated documents at a law firm, and after that I walked through the city, exploring the local dealers. One of them appeared to be a personal friend of Henk's and a customer had traded this custom built Longhorn. He told me that the original owner originally had a high end RG, which had made a terrible fall. And all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again... Even Henk thought it was wiser to transfer the suitable pickups and hardware to a Hillman Longhorn bare bone which he routed for the Edge tremolo and H-S-H set-up. He used a different more jazzy humbucker in the neck position, which makes the guitar very versatile, BUT it is VERY HEAVY: all rock maple neck-throug-body and an ebony fretboard. Hillman Longhorns were hfl 3995.- then, but the guy got reduction because of the parts he brought in. So, even IF your Hillman is a Longhorn, it is never exactly the same. Mine is a one of. Recently I read on the Internet that Henk is building guitars again. He was sort of retired for several years, perhaps a burn-out or something. I'm glad he's back in the business. http://www.hillman-guitars.nl/pagina2.html Hey, seems that he built for Mike Porcaro (Toto) and Van Morrisson and wrote a world hit. Didn't know that, but that's because he's so modest. Ginger

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