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Received this when the sight was down. Honestly underwhelmed. I would have thought Heritage would have done some more special items on it. I have already talked to Custom Inlays about doing a few additions to it. I'll make it Special.

Pressure, I hear you. Here's the piece of Mun Ebony I chose for the fretboard of my Doug Harrison custom archtop. He was allowed to put a maximum of two MOP inlays on the top of that lovely slab. (Fortunately, he did put inlays along the side as well.)

After the repair.

I also love P-90s. This is my H170 from 2014. Spruce back, very flamey maple top, ebony fretboard with 5mm pearl dots, 5-piece neck and ThroBak P-90s. It was Fab getting guitars built by Heritage. Good Times.

I agree that the half & half fretboard inlays were not the best design. I had Heritage correct that with a Millie custom build in 2011. Sunburst Spruce Millie from 2011 on the right Millie SuperLight from 2017 on the left. I had a change in guitar philosophy in my later custom builds preferring more wood less shell.

Yeah, I remember including that one in a 3 guitar trade to Brent. He had a 56’ Junior that I just had to have. That was late in 2013. I remember meeting Brent half way to do the exchange on a freezing rain laden Saturday morning. It was shortly before Christmas. That one is the only Heritage that I regret letting go of. As for the Junior, I moved that in 2016. It was a great player after a refret. But ultimately I still sounded like me playing it. Sad thing is that I should have held on to it for about another five years and quadrupled my money. 😫 I still think about that 150 a lot. Glad to see that it’s getting the love it deserves.

And many,many thanks to the HOC technical team!!

Great story. Great photo.

the horror

Years ago, I played in a country band and we did a lot of winter gigs in Wyoming. We would do 2 nights at each bar, and we would leave our amps in the equipment van overnight. It would get cold as hell up there, sometimes below 0 with windchill. I didn't want to leave one of my expensive tube amps out in the cold, so I bought a Peavey Special 130 which was like a Bandit just more powerful. I paid a few hundred bucks for it used and it never falted once. When I quit that band, I gave it to a close friend who needed an amp. But while I had it, I was surprised how good that amp sounded! I had a simple pedal board that I made with a piece of scrap plywood painted black, that had a volume pedal, Rat distortion, Danelectro DanEcho Delay and a Boss tuner. That was all I needed to get the job done with that amp. Talk about a cheap rig! My guitar was an early seventies Les Paul Deluxe.

If the TRC is mushroomless, it’s not a real GOG Heritage!

Nice! I had to play guitar to fill in time.

No, I've always liked those markers. I'm getting a special truss rod cover and Jason is going to do something nice on the pickguard.

Thanks for all of the work done behind the scenes to re-boot the HOC!!!

It won't have QC dates, but in that period, the serial number tells you when the number was assigned. 1994 should have a K serial number. The five digits of the serial number encode the day and order of manufacture for the guitar. The first group of three digits represent the days remaining in the year on the day the guitar was completed. The last two digits indicate the build order on that day. For example, a guitar with a serial number of B35012 can be decoded as follows: B: Year built is 1985 (a rare find, indeed!) 350: Built on the fifteenth day of the year (365-350=15) 12: The twelfth guitar completed on this day Unlike bolt neck guitars, you won't find dates in a neck pocket, or written in the pickup routes.

Good to see the site back up and running. There are lots of us that missed it. Hats off to whomever did the recovery.

Take the control panel off in the back, and it usually has a sticker behind it

And just in time. I amost bought a Gibson......

Sorry for the late reply, for I've been away from the forum for a while. Since no one seems to have answered your question, I do feel that there is a subtle, but distinct difference in tone between the Pinnacle and the ABR-1. If I'm not mistaken, I think that the base on the Pinnacle is indeed aluminum, and I'm not sure about the saddles. The ABR-1 is definitely zinc with brass saddles. To my ears, the Pinnacle sounds a bit more "airy" and a bit scooped while the ABR-1 seems to have a little more of a direct punch in the mid-range. The attack on the ABR-1 just seems to be a little more immediate with a little bark thrown in, if that makes sense. I mostly prefer the ABR-1 primarily because it has more of a traditional vibe going on, both in tone as well as aesthetics. It's also a tad narrower than the Pinnacle, so it typically does provide a tiny bit more clearance between the strings and the bridge. It's pretty marginal, though. Heritage started using the ABR-1 style of bridges with their 2025 CC models, and I believe they're made by Advanced Plating. They're practically identical to what Gibson has been using for their CS Historic models for many years with the exception that the mounting holes are drilled larger to accommodate the 8-32 thread pitch on a Heritage bridge post vs Gibson's 6-32 thread pitch. If one so desires, the Heritage bridge is a direct drop-in replacement for the Pinnacle bridge, so there's no need to swap out any bridge posts or tailpiece parts to install one. Unlike the Pinnacle system, the ABR-1 is not locking, so that may be a deal breaker for some folks. However, Faber does offer a Tone-Lock bridge that can be directly installed on the existing Heritage posts while using the Pinnacle thumbwheels, but the thumbwheels will need to be turned upside-down in order to have a flat surface for the bridge. It's also necessary to use the Pinnacle tightening screws to lock the Faber bridge in place, but it does work. Interestingly, Heritage clearly dumped the Pinnacle bridge on their CC models in 2025 in favor of the more traditional ABR-1, but I've never heard the reason for doing so. If one is concerned about saddles falling out when breaking strings with the ABR-1, it can be an issue. I also know that the Heritage ABR-1 bridge, thumbwheels and bridge posts can be purchased through Mike at Heritage, so they are readily available to anyone looking for that kind of a setup.

Agree, there are a tremendous number of factors when considering - desired tone, style of music, fingers and touch, wood and build, amps, ears, (hearing is MAJOR as frequency range decreases with age ((except for one of our members who has dog ear 20 -20,000 HZ range) Marketing and brain perception

Today was designated as a work-around-the-house day, so I went to my T-shirt drawer and pulled one out at random. Haven't seen this one in a while. From the very first PSP! That led to an unbroken string of PSPs Marg and I attended, until Covid interrupted things. I recall that first PSP very well. Only something like 16 or 17 of us HOC members there. Plant tour by Ren. As Pressure would say, good times. But good grief, that was 18 years ago! Were you there?

Ohhhh. The good ol days