1. The bridge on this one is the "Lo-Pro" Edge. I've always liked the original Edge trem' a lot better, but I've gotten used to this one, and I play this guitar a lot more than I ever expected to. The standard Edge plug-in style trem' socket has been replaced to fit a standard "Floyd" style collet arm.
    The Lo-Pro version sits deeper in the body. This causes the bridge to have less space for pulling 'up' (even though the cavity is deeper), so it gets bottomed-out a lot. The Lo-Pro also tends to 'rattle' a bit. The design causes the saddle stem to have less tension stabilizing the posts. If there's not enough opposing force from the fine tuning screws, the saddles can sit a little "loose" causing some of these bridges to vibrate. This particular bridge also has a "Haunted Low-E saddle"! It stays in tune GREAT, but I'm always, constantly, having to re-intonate the Low-E? `Can't figg'r it out, but I've learned to live wid'it. I guess it gives the guitar some personality.

2. The switching set-up is different here. I basically replaced the 'pots' with switches, but I never drilled a hole for the coil-tap option. this one is wired so the bridge+neck position always sets the bridge in single-coil mode. The on/off switch is mandatory; as is the neck priority switch (which turns the neck pickup on regardless of where the 5-way is set). Until I ever put the 3rd switch in, this one will only get 7 total positions.

3. The rosewood fingerboard is scalloped from the 12th fret-up (as all my rosewood necks are). This is one of the only bolt-on's I haven't done my tung-oil refinishing (to the back of the neck) yet. These older 'Saber' necks(and bodies) were thinner than the later models. I'm not sure of what year they changed the design?

4. The giant "Ibanez" logo you see, actually looks a bit more purple than the 'blue' it does in these photos. They're after-market vinyl letterings which are very durable. You can polish right over them. I have duplicates somewhere but they've never needed replacing. (I also have duplicates of the Barbies!)

5. Check out the "rails" on the FastTrack-1™ (neck position). I started using these pickups when a DiMarzio® rep' first showed them to me (it was before they were even in the catalog). The early models didn't have black-anodized rails, they looked like nickel. It gave me an idea. I tried 'crowning' it, as if I where filing a fret. It's not necessary since they're fairly smooth already. I set the pickup height & placement so the first rail intonates as a 24th fret. I actually BEND and PLAY on these.
  If you listen to the clip of "Sleep Walk", you'll hear the highest note of the "theme" riff' done on the pickup rail. I used this saber to record that song. I used the trem' to mock the 'slide' style of that song, so I hardly ever let go of the arm the whole time, which also made it a tough song to double-track, since every trem' movement had to be perfectly duplicated.