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Thanks! In all fairness, though, there was no slouch in any of those Heritage guitars. I was visually drawn to the sunburst one....big-time! In the end, I think I would've been happy with any one of them, but the one I took home just had a special and familiar sound and feel to it. It was also the only 2025 model of the entire H-535 lot (the rest were 2024 models), so perhaps that's part of it? Not sure, but as I was putting the guitars back on the rack one by one, this one just stuck around with me......🙂

That is one great looking guitar. Congrats on your new guitar day. And how cool is it that you brought home the best of the lot, the one that you felt a connection with! Rock on!

Just a side note about Dave's prices that are posted on his website, but since all of the H-535s are marked down by $710.00, the actual purchase price becomes a little more affordable. There are similar discounts on all of the other Heritage guitars as well.

Thanks, guys! Funny thing is, the flame figuring on this guitar was my last choice among the antique natural models, only because it isn't quite as symmetrical as the others. Once I picked it up, though, I just knew it was the one I should take home. I'm usually not all that excited about Heritage's 225 Classic pickups, either, but they sound pretty good with this guitar. I was pleasantly surprised. Here are a few H-535s from Dave's that I tried out on Monday (all of the H-535s). That H-555 was pretty sweet, too:

That's one beautiful 535.

Wow! If this was a clear winner over several CC 535s as well as Gibsons, I can only imagine it plays and sounds as good as it looks. And it looks fantastic!!!

I like it. After the traditional red, the natural finish is next on my list. That's some excellent figuring on the top.

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That is a stunner!

Late to the thread here, but I drove over to Dave's the other day and brought this one home. I ended up playing six CC H-535s and two Gibson CS Historic ES-335s, and this one was clearly the winner in terms of tone and playability. I honestly believe that the new 2025 bridge systems on both the H-535 and H-150 guitars are a huge improvement over the previous Pinnacle bridges:

the label looks like Ned rink. Do you have the name of the gentleman in Georgia? I’m asking him because I lived in Georgia for 16 years and I believe I’ve seen that Guitar in the Atlanta area being played live.

Grubber?? A lost member?

Big Bob owned it and sold it to Grubber...

He did at one point have one with a hockey stick headstock. I'll ask...

Does Lance still have that? I can’t remember.

Feel like someone in Florida had that at one stage.

Stunner!

Took it outside yesterday…beautiful day in SW Michigan

I’m pretty sure someone here on this group owns this guitar now? If you do, i’m looking to find out what the sticker on the inside of the control plate says as far as a model designation. Thank you!

Just a superb axe there Brent! Beautiful quilt top and finish. Enjoy!

Thanks Tim!!!!

I agree, Rich, I think that era of H157 head stocks were the classiest looking headstocks in the Guitar world!

FIXED MY NUT 🥜 😂 FIXING THE NUT…on the 2006 Heritage H157 Custom Quilt!!! The D, G and B slots were VERY LOW!! Now, I could have paid someone $100 for a new nut job??? I could have done the ol superglue and baking soda fix??? I could have made a new nut myself (although it probably wouldn’t have been too pretty). NOPE. I decided to use multiple layers of copper shielding tape to “jack up” the factory nut. There were two main reasons why this set up with this nut did not work for the Guitar… 1…Those three slots were too low and they were giving a little bit of buzz on the first Fret. 2….The trust rod needed to be tightened a little bit to straighten the neck out a little more and of course, if you do that that lowers the strings closer to the first Fret, so that certainly was not going to work with the way the nut was setting. So, shimming the nut up just a few thousands of an inch, was the least aggressive solution to the problem! And it worked perfectly, as I knew it would! The guitar actually played pretty good as it was but now it is even better! AND I DID ALL THAT BEFORE 8am 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I’m trying to contact the seller to see if maybe that was his brother‘s name underneath there? Whoever wrote those labels out in that era really needed to practice on their penmanship. Lol.

Beauty, Brent. Can't make out what the label has below 'Custom Made'. Any idea what it says?