Scarlet Fire | Custom “Tiger” Guitar

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Solid Body
Custom

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Tiger

Version(s)

Wolf
Rosebud

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2018

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The Tiger Tribute model is built from Mexican cocobolo and is a set-neck configuration. Each piece is selected for color and figure to replicate as much as possible the original. The body is inlaid and outlined w/ 1/16th inch brass. The top is adorned with the signature MOP tiger inlaid on an ebony oval that is accented with brass. The neck is constructed using curly maple and accented by a vermillion center stripe and accented with thin layers of vermillion and maple.

Mexican cocobolo, maple, ebony and vermillion woods
The body is inlaid and outlined w/ 1/16th inch brass
The top is adorned with the signature MOP tiger inlaid on an ebony oval that is accented with brass
The neck is constructed using curly maple and accented by a vermillion center stripe and accented with thin layers of vermillion and maple.
The standard fret wire is .103″ x .045″
The cocobolo oval back is inlaid with an art deco style flower of two types of abalone, MOP, and brass
All the pots are NOS military surplus
The Gabon ebony fretboard is inlaid with the classic Tiger motif
The volume pot is a 25k value with a logarithmic taper and the neck and bridge tone are controlled by a custom manufactured, 250k/500k value Allen Bradley style, dual Mod pot just like the original
The onboard effects loop (OBEL) that allows the output signal from the pickups to be sent to an effects chain and return to the instrument before the volume pot
The Tiger comes standard with a DiMarzio single-coil pick-up in the neck and two DiMarzio superdistortion humbuckers for the middle and bridge
Kluson reproduction harmonica bridge
Gold Schaller M6 tuners

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