Longtime Heritage owner here, but rarely visit forums anymore-- back in the early 90's I bought a few Heritage models- one was a black beauty H-147 that I sold to a member here...had a translucent green Prospect that really sang, gave that to a friend regretted it ever since...then had a 2001 Millenium that also sang even better than the Prospect! But sold that during rough part of business-owning life, and of course really regretted letting that one go ever since!
Then I found a young custom guitar builder out of Athens GA, he agreed to build me a super-hollow LP style guitar with Bigsby (I was really after Neil Young/Danial Lanois tones) but no F-holes, and I prefer 1.75" wide nut sizes these days...he came up with a AAA ebony board for it too. He carved the top beautifully, but then things started going south...the scale length was correct, but he couldn't fit the Bigsby on it, so I got a short trapeze on it, then the vintage amber finish turned out to be more like a transparent brown...all kinds of detail dings and binding screw ups but dammit the thing sounds amazing! During the time of the screw ups however a Heritage 158 popped up on Reverb. So to hedge my bet on getting a great hollow-LP toned guitar one way or the other I pounced on the 158...It sounded rather strange when I got it so I popped out the pickups as they weren't stock- turns out they were Wolfetones and had been reversed during install by some ding-bat tech; neck model in bridge position and vice versa! Also simultaneously to this I met a great guitar tech in Austin so I decided to have him swap out the Wolfetone PAF's from the Heritage and install the Burstbucker #1 & #2 in the Millenium from the LP guitar. The Wolfetones really sounded more like the '57 Classics than the sweeter and more transparent Burstbuckers to my ears, and right away it was more Warren Haynes than BB King. Then I noticed that inside the upper F-hole was a "Custom Shop" sticker! I figured the no-position markers was a request but then it started making sense. Premium rosewood board; Tone Pros bridge and tail pc, bone nut etc. Maple ply back vs carved out mahogany etc. Serial number is W 28005. Frets are perfect. And of course now I'm playing more bass than guitar so this poor thing sits in the case! I'm probably going to sell it here-- if anybody is a Millenium fan/expert please feel free to get in touch.
Cheers
Alex
sunny Austin Texas
