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In the late '80s and '90s, Murphy helped establish Gibson's Nashville-based Custom Shop, where he worked on improving the authenticity of the brand's reissue guitar models. Murphy eventually left to establish his own vintage guitar restoration company, Preservation Guitars, where he further developed techniques in "ageing" guitars.
Cruz is a former master builder who worked in the Fender Custom Shop.Cruz began working for the Fender company in 1987 and became a master builder in 2003. [1] Two projects that Cruz oversaw were the creation of the Stevie Ray Vaughan replica Stratocaster and the recreation of the 1961 Fiesta Red Stratocaster played by blues guitarist Gary Moore.
A Les Paul Custom fitted with Seth Lover's PAF pickups. The Les Paul Custom remained a double cutaway model until 1963, when Les Paul's endorsement with Gibson ended, and the guitar was subsequently renamed the SG Custom. In 1968, Gibson re-introduced the Les Paul Custom as a two-pickup model.
Tiger is a custom-built guitar owned by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. Garcia commissioned luthier Doug Irwin to design and build the guitar in 1973 following delivery of Wolf, his first major Irwin-built guitar. Upon commissioning the instrument, Garcia asked Irwin to "make it the way he thought was best, and don't hold back."
Doug Irwin is an American luthier who designed five custom guitars for Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. [1] The guitars he built for Garcia included Eagle , [2] Wolf, [3] Tiger, [4] Wolf Jr. (headless) and Rosebud. [5] Doug also built more than 50 other guitars and basses including a bass for Pete Sears and a bass for Phil Lesh. Two other ...
All models were dropped from price lists in 1979. The L6-S Custom remained in the catalog in 1980 and was still being made in the Nashville plant. The original L6-S came in three variants; all were maple-bodied with twin super-humbucking pickups. Late in 2011 The Gibson company re-issued this guitar, with slight alterations: