I just stripped some screws on my Ibanez trying to adjust my truss rod, and I'm wondering why it's so hard to find replacement screws in hardware stores. Is it just because they're in metric sizes or does Ibanez have something else going on?
They're typically specialized screws that are manufactured for guitar parts pretty much exclusively. Find the screw that matches your utility
here, and be a bit more careful in the future. Getting new screws is a bit*h.