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1989 G-CUT H 150 saven from the depths of HELL


brentrocks

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This guitar started it life as a 1989 H 150 CM.

 

It suffered what most people would have seen as, a terminal fracture!!!

 

The guitar was given to a local kzoo fella, who does guitar repairs, only on the side and mainly as a hobby. His name is Bob, he is an aquaintance of a friend of mine. He is currently ressurecting a vintage Kalamazoo acoustic that belonged to my great grandfather.

 

The section of the neck was completely broken, somehow, he was able to salvage the fret board and splice in a new piece of neck/headstock. Bob took this H 150 and fixed this, almost terminal neck break....but he added a twist, he he put an open book style headstock sporting a Gibson logo. The guitar made it into the hands of my friend, where i first saw it and was able to play it. He let me take it home to mess with for a while and i was able to buy it.

 

The caliber of this repair would make any luthier cringe! It is absoloutly amazing how great this guitar plays and sounds!!! It sports a Duncan JB/59 combo, 500k pots, PIO caps and switchcraft toggle.

 

I cant imagine the amount of work that went into this repair...especially to make it play THIS GOOD!!!!

 

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It's funny how the flame top of the guitar and it's finish just scream Heritage and the headstock belies that.

 

That's cool that he managed to resurrect this old 150 and bring it back to life.

 

I bet that it rocks... nice find, Brent.

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sacrilege....I don't like it.

 

it's a Heritage, it deserves to be loud & proud.

 

a local guy around here did the same thing. I think it looks awkward & probably devalues it.

 

 

is anyone else having trouble getting sentences to split it their posts?

 

this should be a whole new line, but I bet it's tagged onto the last sentence

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sacrilege....I don't like it.

 

it's a Heritage, it deserves to be loud & proud.

 

a local guy around here did the same thing. I think it looks awkward & probably devalues it.

 

 

is anyone else having trouble getting sentences to split it their posts?

 

this should be a whole new line, but I bet it's tagged onto the last sentence

 

 

Devalued? The headstock was snapped off! And part of the neck, too. I doubt it can get much more devalued. Altho' I do think the headstock looks a bit weird on a Heritage body.

 

BTW, the Advanced Editor seems to be on the fritz. Seems to have defaulted to a simple text editor, and no formatting options. At least, for now.

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ah, sorry I was referring to the local guy!he took a perfectly good H150, and added wings/redrilled the headstock etc to make it look like a Gibson

 

 

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that ain't right. Have you seen the one Gregor? (youtube guy), Just looks wrong.

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sacrilege....I don't like it.

 

it's a Heritage, it deserves to be loud & proud.

 

a local guy around here did the same thing. I think it looks awkward & probably devalues it.

 

 

is anyone else having trouble getting sentences to split it their posts?

 

this should be a whole new line, but I bet it's tagged onto the last sentence

I would have rather seen a heritage headstock too. But I had no input in the repair.

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To be fair here... At PSP a couple years ago, someone ran across a broken off Gibson headstock lying in deep pile of dust... If that headstock was indeed mounted to a Heritage, would opinions differ on the matter considering it both the headstock and the neck/body were produced at the factory?

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To be fair here... At PSP a couple years ago, someone ran across a broken off Gibson headstock lying in deep pile of dust... If that headstock was indeed mounted to a Heritage, would opinions differ on the matter considering it both the headstock and the neck/body were produced at the factory?

It's kinda like a Camaro with a big Mustang logo on it..

 

But it doesn't bother me .. I'd play it and enjoy the mojo that comes from within...

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OOF. Usually you'd see that type of repair with a scarf joint to distribute the load. But I guess it works, somehow. Probably putting a ton of stress on the fretboard.

carbon fibre reinforced I guess. Good stuff. The type of joint probably less important than a tradional repair.

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