Welcome back to David's Makita theme park. “Strad-a-Tiger” # 9 2006-2024
The guitar I built you; is a hollow solid body maple walnut sandwich, creating purified acoustic projection. Strad-a-Tiger has a warm full-bodied warmth that exceeds the expectations of the original Garcia Irwin Tiger guitar. Jerry would have been impressed with the unplugged glow this guitar forever provides.
30 years of research, technique development, tool acquisition and building 17 previous guitars , before I crafting your beloved Tiger. The crown jewel of every guitar collection.
Jerry Garcia's Strad-a-Tiger guitar is a creation unto itself, we can look for one….. but it is now within your hands.
Hand cut Tiger plate, no CNC machines.
Gold “Harmonica“ bridge, Schaller M6 tuners. & Strap-locks
Bronze finger-board inlays, brass fittings, slot screws.
16 piece neck, brass bindings, glue,& screw reinforced fret markers.
24 jumbo frets, sculpted brass “gondola mountain-scape” nut.
D’Addario flat-wound, 10-48, solid D
7 layer walnut, padauk, maple hollow body
Sculpted walnut lumber from my lot-line tree. (Cut 1994)
Floral abalone, pearl, brass, maple, back-side inlay.
Brass inlaid body pinstriping.
Fools gold knobs,
Easy remove complete harness, OBEL splits, extra tone control.
Easy pick-up change-overs, with isolated connections. No pre amp.
Perhaps you have treated every other guitar like a bar-stool… This guitar is to be handled like a new-born baby. Don’t drop or crush it ! It is delicate like a viola cello. … A flaw with my design;....!!neck heavy!!… solved with a “Guitar-strap bottle holder” to correct the balance.
Signed on back of head-stock.
P. S. I was honored to sell my bovine inspired "The Bull" guitar to the famous Las Vegas ANIMAXING GALLERY.... A wax museum statue of Jerry Garcia plays a guitar of my own design !!!! Across the street from the "Sphere" in THE GRAND CANAL, My Wolf, and Rose-bud are on display.
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| Condition | Excellent (Used) Excellent items are almost entirely free from blemishes and other visual defects and have been played or used with the utmost care.Learn more |
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