bobrollar Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 What does everyone think of these guitars....crazy neck and look where it connects to the headstock.....cool idea. Cripe Guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Well that's the weirdest volute I've ever seen. Do they give a reason why it's done that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 That's uhh ...interesting. Whoa quadruple post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Does that guitar have a tumor? "No, it is not a tumah!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Yeah, that guitar just has a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Don't like the body shape. Not wrong, just not for me. Notes ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FarnsBarns Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Looks awful to me, each to there own but your not bringing it to my house ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Wow i really like it. I think that tumor on the headstock is so the headstock is much stronger? Not sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickman Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Never cared for that body shape either. Looks like something out of the Flintstones. Otherwise, who knows if it'll catch on or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Unless you are into Jerry Garcia and want a guitar like this then go for it. Otherwise I would take a pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocstar6 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Wow it has 2 guitar inputs. this guitar can be connected at 2 amps at once. are there any other guitars with that abililty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocstar6 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Wow it has 2 guitar inputs. this guitar can be connected at 2 amps at once. are there any other guitars with that abililty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocstar6 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Wow it has 2 guitar inputs. this guitar can be connected at 2 amps at once. are there any other guitars with that abililty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobrollar Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 The volute is to increase sustain and help balance the guitar, as far as the multiple inputs, Jerry used to run a lot of midi effects and would have a 9-volt battery under the lighting bolt ( i think you can see the screws). He would have a cables set up so he could run stereo amps, one side of the stage was left amp and the other would be right.....hard to explain with out doing some reading on it...think of it as headphones, with your left and right channel, but the built up to the size of a stage for a crowd of multiple 10,000's. Cool idea but a LOT of wiring involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobrollar Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Here is a link to a picture of the schematics of his Irwin guitar: Schematic Here is a better explanation to what i just said: Again, The Tiger has two Dimarzio Super ll pickups and one Single coil Dimarzio SDS1 in the neck position. The humbucking pickups are wired with Black and White wires together in true single coil switching mode. There is a 5 way strat style pickup selection switch, two 3 way toggle switches for coil selection on the humbuckers (hum/canceling dual/single coil) configuration of the dual-coil pickup and one toggle to turn the effects loop on and off. There are two 500k tone pots one for each humbucker and one 25k volume pot. There are two output jacks, both are stereo type jacks. The mono cable uses a stereo jack so it will turn the battery off when you unplug the guitar. The mono cable runs straight to the Fender Twin. The stereo jack runs out of the guitar to the effects rack and then back into the guitar BEFORE the volume control. Here is the important stuff. By running the effects loop from the guitar you are able to shape the sound of the effects with the tone controls of the guitar. In the effects loop is a Unity Gain Buffer. It is a little op amp that keeps the gain of the signal in the loop constant and makes the output of the guitar low impedance. The Buffer is always ON and seeing a signal no matter if the effects loop is on or off. You can get one from EMG www.emginc.com . The model number is JG1. (or now a JG-2) Since the loop is wired pre- volume, the effects are always seeing the same full output from the pickups. When your signal from your guitar is not going up and down with volume you know right where your effects levels are going to be. Most importantly this allows you to shape the tone of your effected signal with the tone controls of your guitar. When you daisy chain stomp boxes in between your guitar and your amp you are sucking a lot of tone away and when you kick in any effect it takes over your signal and you have no control over it. Try turning on a distortion pedal and switching your pickup selectors or turning your tone knobs, you see very little change in the sound. With the effects loop and unity gain buffer you have 5 different distortion tones and you can roll the tone off to get real cool horn like sounds. In this way, Garcia was seamlessly painting with an incredible number of varying tones that were controllable right from the guitar and one control foot switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Wow it has 2 guitar inputs. this guitar can be connected at 2 amps at once. are there any other guitars with that abililty? i'm sure there are literally dozens of models with this setup........ a few that come to mind immediately are the Gibson and Epi "B.B.King Lucille", and the Epi Les Paul "Ultra & Ultra II". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 looks like a bc rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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