In the fall of 1987, while filming a music video, George chose to expose sub-zero temperatures to the original bones guitar ("Mom"). The freezing weather cracked the body of the that guitar and the top portion of the skull began to separate from the area where it was jigged onto the rest of the body. Again, John "J.Frog" Garcia was commissioned to make a guitar.Completed on Easter Sunday of 1988, the second bones guitar was born. Though it looks very similar to the original, there is quite a lot of differences in this guitar. While the first bones guitar was constructed using an existing strat-shaped guitar body, this one was made of a single piece of solid ash wood. This made the guitar much heavier than the one before. Because John did not have a strat shape to work from, the design was hand drawn on a plank of ash before he made the first cut into the wood. As his tools, he used matches to soften the wood and a butter knife to carve before using a Dremel moto-tool to define his sculpting. The end result was a bigger body with more pronounced bones shapes.
Like most Lynch guitars of that time, this guitar has a single Duncan Distortion pickup and a simple 500K volume pot. The neck was furnished by ESP and has 22 frets. The fretboard is scalloped from the 10th fret on up.
Lynch was to receive this guitar upon arrival in Japan during the 1988 "Back For The Attack" tour. The guitar made its stage debut during the live recordings made for "Beast In The East" and can be seen on that album's back cover.