Hi,
My name is Scott, and I have GAS like the rest of you! I have a thing for red (or black cherry) colored guitars.
I currently own 16 guitars ... soon to be 17 (hopefully). As you can see by my signature I have a variety of instruments, the Heritage and PRS are amongst my favorites. I have built some pretty cool customized Warmoth pieces I play out with as well. I'm in a band called Heritage (not after the name of the guitar ... that's just coincidence). http://www.myspace.com/heritage2007 We are a classic Rock band with some southern rock added in.
My Heritage H-535 Classic in red is the reason I am here.
Does anyone have a gold top P90 heritage that they care to brag up a bit? I'm think about getting one (#18?).
I am fortunate that one of my best friends is an Electrical Engineer and Fender certified repair main. Aside from our full time jobs at a large computer manufacturer, we are both guitar players. He knows vintage amps and can repair, hot rod or modify an amp to do amazing things. He does all my amp work and he's a heck of a guitar player himself! He was also one of the designers of the X-Box chip ... bright guy!! He actually owns a 1951 Telecaster (yeah ... he knows what it's worth!!).
I help this friend of mine in his shop (http://www.telemanguitars.com/) and I do a lot of guitar setups. I've seen some real nice guitars and some real pieces of junk. EVERY Heritage I have ever seen is good, I only see them if someone is showing it off or for setup work (new strings clean up, intonation check).
Fortunately, both our wives are cool about our GAS situation and are enablers (has bought guitars for their hubby's).
Last guitar my wife bought me was a hotrodded Gretsch 5120 with locking tuners, pinned bridge, and TV Jones Pickups (turned it into a Brian Setzer clone for much less money).
My 12 year old daughter loves my Heritage 535 ... she always asks me to do the scene from 'Back To The Future' - Johnny B. Goode / Van Halen (which I have done on a gig ;D ) ... 'I suppose you guys weren't ready for that yet .... but your kids are going to love it'.
Amps I use?
Mesa Boogie Rect-o-verb series II (in a 5/8 ply, rolling road case - main gigging amp)
Fender Pro Tube Series Twin (modded to tame the gain)
Mesa Boogie Nomad 100 head (WAY under rated head!!)
4x12 Fender cab (Celestion G75-12T's)
2x12 Mesa Slant cab
Fender Silver face 1978 .. pristine still has tags on it!! (Dumble Sounding mod by my EE buddy)
Fender Hotrod Deluxe (modded to get that harsh sounding gain smoothed out)
Peavey Studio (for Talk box and solid state usage).
Play at least an Hour a Day and you'll never get gray (at least as far as you'll know).
