One of the other things that was really notable about it being a hardtail, and Jake's mentioned this before, is how it was a factor shaping his playing style not using a trem during an era where everyone was shifting to Floyd's ala EVH. Obviously he came up with some innovative ways to still get some "trem like" sounds, but he always inspired me because I was always lukewarm on using the Floyd back then myself. I was like "if Jake can get away with it, so can I!"
He's also said when Charvel approached him to borrow the guitar to base the signature model on, he was like "it doesn't actually play that well", and he was just used to using it back in the day but it had some issues (I think the modifications were not favorable to playability).