George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

[appar111]

In my neverending fascination with George Lynch's original Tiger guitar (see here: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...al-Tiger-ESP&highlight=lynch's+original+tiger), I have more questions for those who hopefully have the answers.

Is the Floyd on the original Tiger floating? I know it's not recessed, obviously, but wondered if it's set to drop-only or if it's floating where there's some room for pull-ups.

Also, did he always have a Floyd on it? He's had the thing forever-- did it originally have a vintage style Charvel trem on it (brass, I'm assuming)?

Inquiring minds want to know....

Also, any other cool original Tiger pics not shown in the link above, please feel free to post them here!


-J

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

The Floyd is dive only. It originally had a chrome vintage style 6 screw strat trem and a 21 fret maple strathead neck. Then it later got a floyd and a 22 fret strathead neck with a maple board and matching headstock and now the rosewood board neck with the crazy shape matching painted headstock.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

Yeah....the fascination with this guitar is kind of funny, mainly due to the fact that the body wood is the only consistent thing on it! It in itself has defining 'eras'

 

[appar111]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

The Floyd is dive only. It originally had a chrome vintage style 6 screw strat trem and a 21 fret maple strathead neck. Then it later got a floyd and a 22 fret strathead neck with a maple board and matching headstock and now the rosewood board neck with the crazy shape matching painted headstock.

I would've thought it to be floating given how high the pickup seems in its ring in some of the pics I've seen. Unfortunately those same pics aren't at quite the angle necessary to see how the Floyd sits

 

[orpheo]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

I saw it up close this NAMM. it's floating but only, slightly. SLIGHTLY. You can't really pull it up that much. less than one fret. the trem has to go that high otherwise the strings will rattle against the fretboards I suppose.

 

[appar111]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

Usually that height also means that the floyd is floating, since it's very hard for it to be dive only at that sort of height since it's obviously not resting against the top of the body.

The only pics I've seen of the tiger trem cavity seem to show a standard size block, not a fat one, so there should be enough room in there to allow for a fair amount of pull-up, but then again I'm not sure how the tiger's trem cavity was routed. So there can't be too much space between the block and the inside of the trem cavity for up-pull-- if there was, there'd be alot more range for pull-ups.

I'm debating getting a Floyd fat brass block for mine, which would essentially reduce the amount of space between the edge of the block and the inside of the trem cavity, resulting in the same slight pull up range that Lynch's tiger has.

 

[jackson111]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

only thing I know about it is that its georges favorite guitar and he built it original back in the late 70's. or atleast that's what I read in an interview.

 

[Jemini]

Re: George Lynch's original Tiger guitar - more questions

Karl Sandoval built it for George