JERY GARCIA ALEMBIC TRIBUTE CUSTOM (TIGER)

Alembic was founded in 1969 and is a manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps.
Fender's success set the scene for Music Man, G&L (both with input from Leo, himself) Lakland, Sadowsky and numerous less innovative copies. The rise of Alembic in the 70s, opened the door for high-end bass manufacturers such as Warwick, Spector, Wal, Ken Smith and Fodera – and raised expectations for top-of-the-line instruments from large manufacturers such as Yamaha and Ibanez

History

Ron and Susan Wickersham started Alembic in 1969. Originally it was a consulting firm that worked closely with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the like to help improve the quality of live sound and recordings of live concerts. Rick Turner also joined the company in that first year, becoming a shareholder in 1970. Rick and Alembic parted company in 1978, and Rick founded Renaissance Guitars.
High impedance pickups have limited bandwidth.[citation needed] Ron Wickersham and Rick Turner designed low-impedance pickups with greater bandwidth. To boost their low output, Ron designed an active onboard preamp. In 1969 Ron installed the first active electronics in instruments owned by Phil Lesh, Jack Casady, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia. These were the first low impedance pickups with preamps to be installed on a musical instrument. (UK manufacturer Burns introduced active tone controls on its TR2 bass in the 60's, although without the low impedance pickups essential to modern active electronics.)
Alembic became quite busy installing these new active electronics in players' guitars and basses. It also performed many modifications on instruments, such as remanufacturing the headstocks with a 14° angle, machining solid brass parts for the bridge, tailpiece and nut, carving necks and the like. This work led eventually to manufacturing its own line of guitars and basses from start to finish.

Many famous guitarists have bought Alembics, including Jerry Garcia, Carlos Alomar, Adrian Belew, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Johnny Winter, Steve Miller, Neil Young, Chet Atkins and Stanley Jordan.

No endorsements

Alembic have always followed a strict no endorsement policy. Everyone, including Stanley Clarke, has paid for their instruments. In Alembic’s view this is the best endorsement of all. In Susan Wickersham’s (co-founder and CEO) words, "the most successful artists can afford to pay for their instruments – but if we gave them endorsement deals the cost of those instruments would have to be recovered from customers who are far less able to afford it".[citation needed]
Alembic did make two exceptions to this rule when they presented Stanley Clarke with a specially inlaid instrument to celebrate 30 years of working together. Alembic also approached Mark King at a gig on the Stevie Winwood tour in 1986 with an offer to build him a bass. Mark received two 34" scale Series 2 basses initially and then ordered two more in identical woods with 32" scale.[

I wanna Discuss only for Jerry Garcia of the gratefull dead i really like his Peggy "o" song's

the song for me is about a man try to marry a woman named peggy that her mother dont want too.

really cool sharing song i think that Garcia gave to his fans, i think he is a great song writer

and i really like this guitar because it is very very beautiful guitar, sound very smooth first hear i immidiately fallin love with this one.

the diagram for this guitar also is crazy enough to learn so it is very very high tech and special
tiger the alembic tribute custom, played by jerry himself almost of his concert for 11 years

this guitar is sold for U$ 850.000 in auction

there still a debate for this guitar for who own it

the grate full dead or the luthier Doug Irwin

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 13-1/2 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.

"Tiger" (pearl coverplate) Description: Seven years to make, ebony fingerboard on maple neck, an arched cocobola top and back, vermilion neck and body striping, and W. flamed-maple body core. Meticulous scrolled inlay finger position markers and hand-crafted brass hardware; Strat approach, but with one DiMarzio SDS-1 single coil and two DiMarzio Super 2 humbuckers that were easily removed 'cause Jerry thought their ouput weakened after a year or two. Also had Jerry's effects bypass loop (he knew his electronics!), as well as an op-amp buffer/amp to maintain the high end during effects "on". Result: Garcia's favorite guitar for the next ll years & most played. Jerry strapped this heavy 13 1/2-pound guitar for 11 years.