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Depends on the fuzz. I don’t care for Muffs or Fuzz Faces with humbuckers much. And higher output pickups are a no go. The overload the front end too much. Tone Benders? I’ve got a EQD Park Fuzz and I love it with singles, P90s, HBs and Filter’trons. The tone control is very powerful on that and it works great. It’s based off a Mk3 Tone Bender. I do want to try a MK2 Bender eventually. Might grab an EQD Barrows. If you want to use a Muff with HBs you can always put a SD-1 or TS in front of the Muff set to clean boost (volume up, gain at 0, tone to taste). I prefer an SD-1 because it cuts more lows and really tightens up the pedal. Muffs also can be put anywhere in the chain so it’s not as important to have them be first to see the pickups. Fuzz Faces and Tone Benders should be first before anything. I’ve tried them in other spots and this just works. Rats are more distortion boxes than fuzz per se but they can get pretty fuzzy. Catalinbread’s Katzenkönig is set up like a Mk 2 Bender but with the added EQ section of a Rat. I really like this one because it doesn’t cut as much lows as a Rat does and can get pretty fuzzy and raunchy at higher settings. Also has an input knob to balance the pedals input impedance against your pickups or wherever it’s at in the chain. Makes it buffer friendly. Lastly, but certainly not least, is Octave Fuzz. There’s a few variations out there but the mains are stuff based off the Ace Tone Fuzzmaster and the Octavia. My experience is with variations of the Ace Tone Fuzzmaster. EQD does a variation called the Fuzz Master General which takes the Fuzz Master circuit and adds a tone knob (originals had a tone switch) to go from scooped to mid heavy and anywhere in between. I love this pedal. It also has clipping options. Ge transistors, Si, or none for a cleaner boost and just the octave. The octave overtones only come into play on the neck pickup above the 12th fret with the tone rolled way back on the guitar. It’s a glitchy gnarly sound and with the mids up it cuts well. The Catalinbread Octapussy is closer to a Octavia in design but is still more mid forward and less scooped. Great with just about anything.

I just ran across this video about the history of Gibson in Kalamazoo.

Thanks!

Thanks! Me too! Was hoping they'd do a 555 just like this, lucky to have it!

Pete farmer

I assume it would be Jeff Nicholson, who was Archie Leach's partner at Plaza Corp.

A little over 10 years ago, I contacted the owner of this #5, who was a member of HOC, to see if he would be interested in selling it. He shared that it was purchased during the PSP trip and was not ready to sell. I had taken a hiatus recently for a few months from the forums and market due to life changes. I checked back in and saw #5 on Wolfe Guitars and immediately purchased it. The next morning I was contacted by their staff and notified that the guitar had previously been sold but kept reappearing due to a technical glitch on the website. So I was refunded. It may have been before this banner appeared on their site, but I didn't notice because of the excitement of finding the instrument; the same one I had tried to purchase several years before. 😢The elusive Heritage H-140 25th Anniversary 😭

From the link FredZepp shared:

Do you see six signatures? Jim, Marv, JP ,Bill I assume that one of the other two is Archie.. not sure who else.

Found this... at the bottom of the page. Passing of the torch! https://the-guitar.com/a-heritage-of-guitar-making/

Here's an H-140 25th Anniversary that was sold on Reverb a while back. https://reverb.com/item/91740095-heritage-h-140-cm-25th-anniversary-with-case-in-excellent-condition

Saw one at a PSP can't remember which one but I should appear in the group photo. Could have been 2012 or 2013. That was the reason I asked Marv to build my 147

What is to wonder about? I bought it new as a standard II from Sweetwater in January, and here is a picture of the headstock. It is clearly not a custom core or the old standard with the decal logo.

Jay Wolfe may be able to find you one if it exists.

Ah! The caffeine just hit the last two working brain cells. The one I posted was a commemorative model to commemorate , funny how that works, the passing of the Heritage torch from the founders to the new owners.

Can't really see the finish but it's the best angle I have.

I found the pics I took at the factory. It was PSP IX (2016?) It's a different head stock than the one on Reverb. It looks better executed. The Reverb 150 is located in Muscle Shoals which is about 30 minutes from Moulton, JP's home town, so it's possible JP received it after his retirement and his family let it go. The shop that has it for sale also had a Terminator for sale a couple of years ago. I picked up a HFT-480 from a guy in Moulton, about an hour from me, a while back who told me his father was friends with JP and he got the guitar from him. It's not inconceivable that head stocks were in in the works before JP left. Anyway, a bit of a caffeine induce ramble. Here's the shots from PSP

Interesting.... Wonder if it was really a Standard II?

Beautiful!

In all the years I've been with the HOC and PSP's, I can safely say I've never seen a H140 25th Anniversary. Either in person or on this forum. Other than the example for the catalog, I don't know if they actually made any. Back in the day, the ledgers were all handwritten notebooks, so the ability to look one up is nearly impossible. I remember looking at the catalog and wondering who'd pay for one of those when an H150 was just a tiny bit more.... Good luck with your search though. Glad we could help you out, the seller of the OP H150 didn't know what he had but priced it pretty high.

Very nice. I'm glad they brought back the 555 and 157. I like gold hardware, and the bound headstock just looks great.

Its still in my care.

Thank you, I'm really enjoying it!

Killer! All class that one is!