Tiger was Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1979 to 1990. It was built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The Tiger is named after the tiger inlaid on the preamp cover located on the guitar's top, just behind the tailpiece. The body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "Hippie sandwich" by employees of Alembic Inc. , where Irwin worked for a brief period in the early 1970s.

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  • Tiger was Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1979 to 1990. It was built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The Tiger is named after the tiger inlaid on the preamp cover located on the guitar's top, just behind the tailpiece. The body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "Hippie sandwich" by employees of Alembic Inc. , where Irwin worked for a brief period in the early 1970s. The combination of several heavy varieties of wood, plus solid brass binding and hardware results in an unusually heavy instrument that tips the scales at 13½ pounds. After 1990, Garcia switched to a different Irwin instrument, the nearly-identical Rosebud, as his primary guitar with the Grateful Dead. The Tiger was thenceforth kept as a backup; a problem with Rosebud meant that the Tiger was the last instrument Garcia played at the Grateful Dead's last concert, on July 9, 1995.
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  • Solid
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  • Brass Schaller tune-o-matic style
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  • Natural
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  • Set-Neck
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  • 1979 (xsd:integer)
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  • Tiger
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  • "Hippie Sandwich" of Cocobolo, Maple, Vermillion, Flame Maple, Vermillion, Maple, and Cocobolo, with brass binding and inlay.
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  • Ebony with pearl inlay and brass bindings; 25-1/2" scale
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  • Western Maple with Padauk "skunk stripe"
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  • Tiger was Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1979 to 1990. It was built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The Tiger is named after the tiger inlaid on the preamp cover located on the guitar's top, just behind the tailpiece. The body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "Hippie sandwich" by employees of Alembic Inc. , where Irwin worked for a brief period in the early 1970s.
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  • Tiger (guitar)
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