Author Topic: Irwin guitar on Brad Sarno's site.... (Read 448 times)

lbpesq · « **Reply #15 on:** June 16, 2006, 08:08:05 AM »

I don't get it. According to the site, the guitar is a 1955 Tele. The site goes on to describe the Garcia effects loop, stating that the effects loop was built by Doug Irwin with wiring done by Bob Georges.

So if Bob Georges did the wiring for the effects loop, what was left to do, drill the hole and mount the second jack?

Bill, tgo

paulman · « **Reply #16 on:** June 17, 2006, 09:53:42 AM »

In Skeleton Key, a dictionary for Deadheads, there is an entry for Play Like Jerry. Apparently this guy David Fontaine convinced Doug Irwin to build a second Tiger guitar. Just wanted to throw that in. These guitars are, like the Alembics, works of art.

zappahead · « **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2006, 07:00:42 PM »

Irwin built a guitar for Bob Weir and a bass for Phil. Ive seen pics of both, the bass here and the guitar was actually on ebay a long time ago. The guitar was real nice but far more usual than the work he did for Jerry. It was a tame, nicely made quilted maple top guitar that almost looked like a Charvel or something like that. Phil's bass looks like a Tribute. Im sure Doug has built guitars here and there for people, the guy had to eat. You dont see them though so I wonder what happened to them?

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 19, 2006, 05:28:40 AM »

and Mica's photo contributions to this thread from 6-15 have disappeared ...

Don't we all love softwear with random bugs? (jk)
Mike

grateful · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2006, 06:33:34 AM »

This company claim to have worked with Doug Irwin on the tiger and Phil's tiger-style bass. He does a good looking replica of the tiger.

Mark

zappahead · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2006, 07:19:11 PM »

Does anyone have any pics of the headless guitar that Irwin made for Jerry? I recall seeing pics of hit before but I couldnt find any anywhere. I remember thinking that was a cool but bizarre guitar project. I also read somewhere that Jerry had a guitar called Wolf Jr that was stolen, not sure if thats true or not.

jalevinemd · « **Reply #21 on:** June 19, 2006, 09:50:17 PM »

It was actually Stephen Cripe, not Doug Irwin, who made the headless guitar for Jerry.

paulman · « **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2006, 08:44:36 AM »

Actually Doug did make the Headless guitar for Jerry. I have a Guitar Player from 95 with Garcia's Guitars that had some comments on it. Here's a pic to boot.

jalevinemd · « **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2006, 12:12:06 PM »

I see, said the blind man. So they both made a headless for Jerry.

zappahead · « **Reply #24 on:** June 20, 2006, 02:37:09 PM »

Ah, thanks for the pic. I knew I had seen that before, it must be on display with the other guitars the Dead swiped from Irwin after Jerry died. I think thats actually a cool looking guitar. Irwin does do some incredible work.

paulman · « **Reply #25 on:** June 21, 2006, 09:03:00 AM »

Steve made one too? I would LOVE to see a pic of that. A hunting I go.

And the blind man didn't see until he picked up his hammer and saw. Haha.

jalevinemd · « **Reply #26 on:** June 21, 2006, 11:45:45 AM »

I thought that Resurrection Guitars had a photo of Stephen Cripe's headless guitar on their old website. Their new site is very stripped down, however. No classic photos to be found.

zappahead · « **Reply #27 on:** June 21, 2006, 06:41:03 PM »

Ive seen pics of Cripes, it was a lot different. It had tuners on the bottom of the guitar so it was not made the same way as Irwins. Its hard to tell from that pic but I think Irwin put a Steinberger tremolo on that guitar. Supposedly Jerry did not take to the one Irwin made for him, never heard either way if he had a headless one from Cripe.