This was posted on the Doug Irwin page on Facebook today:
"Irwin Guitars #024 One of our Favorites 70’s Irwin pre-dating Tiger featuring Cocobolo & Flame Maple neck thru construction • Cocobolo top & back • Ebony Woman’ silhouette with Brass outline w/ Ruby nipples • Signature Irwin Guitars ‘Deluxe Earth Eagle’ logo inlayed into the Peghead w/ Abalone Shell continents • Handmade stop tailpiece w/ brass bridge saddle assembly."
So it's a Tiger-shaped guitar made 26 builds before Tiger?! Clearly neck-through. Two pickups. This changes a lot about what I had always been led to believe about the development and construction of Tiger.
"Irwin Guitars #024 One of our Favorites 70’s Irwin pre-dating Tiger featuring Cocobolo & Flame Maple neck thru construction • Cocobolo top & back • Ebony Woman’ silhouette with Brass outline w/ Ruby nipples • Signature Irwin Guitars ‘Deluxe Earth Eagle’ logo inlayed into the Peghead w/ Abalone Shell continents • Handmade stop tailpiece w/ brass bridge saddle assembly."
So it's a Tiger-shaped guitar made 26 builds before Tiger?! Clearly neck-through. Two pickups. This changes a lot about what I had always been led to believe about the development and construction of Tiger.
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Last show: 3/19/95 (Unbroken Chain breakout)
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First show: 8/16/69 (Woodstock)
Last show: 3/19/95 (Unbroken Chain breakout)
Member of the Four-Decade Club
Charter Member, President & CEO of OAD (Order of the Ancient Deadheads)
