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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.

Sounds right to me... I definitely remember the driving in the freezing rain part, which started turning to snow later in the evening. At least four hours to Michigan, then the run for Brent's to O'Hare, so quite a long day of it for me. I prefer the growl of P-90s to most pickups and then I was a big fan of Leslie West's tone, so every time I see a Heritage with P-90s, I kind of go into deep and needy mode.

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.

I tend to think that it's a very nice-looking guitar! However, I've always felt that the two different inlay schemes in general on the H-555 fretboard looked to be a bit odd. I can't help but to wonder why Heritage couldn't have designed a more consistent scheme throughout the board so, if I have any gripe at all, that's probably it.

If memory serves, we all debated on what made it so special from a standard 555 model. Thought it had a larger archtop headstock being the only major difference?

Bought this one from Dave that lives/lived near Detroit. I want to say this was back around 2017, while Ta was in Thailand and unaware 😜 Brent did the handoff on my way up to O'Hare to pick the little girl up. I like the uncluttered functionality of it. Lollar's and TP-6

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

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

Doh!

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.

Having the fingerboard inlays changed? I’ll say I’ve never cared for the 3rd to 15th fret inlay style. Wasn’t that the original H555 inlay motif? Blocks are much classier to my eye.

Thank you John... All credit really goes to you!

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

Custom inlay does nice work. That will spruce it up..

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Thanks Mark

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.

Thanks so much to whomever pulled off the rescue!

Apologies for the extended outage. The server decided to crap itself. As it's located in NY and I am not, we were at the mercy of the supplier's "onsite support." Which turns out to be "not onsite." Always an adventure, but eventually a new system was spun up and a wonderful time was had restoring backups, fixing service configuration (or services missing completely) issues. There are a few minor, niggling issues to run down. Hopefully, nothing that impacts the community. Be well!

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

I know a few people on here, lost their mind and contemplated suicide…..

Banned!!!!

This from the guy that never logged into the site!!!