Hi folks - thnks for your replies! If this kind of thing does happen a lot otr is fairly routine then thats good news - being new to floyd rose and ibanez and having only recently (last year or so) realised the benefits of a good setup once in a while i was worried that there was something wrong with the guitar - i figured that changing the springs just to go up one gauge was kind of extreme but from what you are saying im now thinking that it relly isnt that big a del. the guy doing the work said he was going to have a try with some different springs but his view was that it shouldnt have needed them.

He also pointed out a couple of things about the guitar that i hadnt really noticed - the finishing / crimping of the frets along the edge of the neck has not been done too well and there are a few fairly sharp feeling bits when you run your hand along, but these will wear down in time i guess. Also the finish on the body is *so* thin - ive put a couple of small chips in it accidnetally :*0(
and it relly is a paper thin layer of paint. But that said its a cool guitar, looks neat plays nice and i love it - just beginning to wonder whas going on at ibanez because ive always admired their consistently high build quality. its neve rnice to discover bad things about your fav. axe -if the bridge is screwed somehow ontop of the above niggles then that would have been tragic for me so its a big weight off my mind to hear thats is proberbly something mundane and normal! So cheers folks once again!

~T~