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Rich for the win. Excellent and rare guitar! Nice snatch.

Agreed, probably a customized SAE. Heritage, especially very early on, would do a lot of customization, and was exploring lots of different ideas. This is from the 1989 catalog.

It appears to be a SAE model.

Has anyone seen one of these before? The date says 1989, but I can't find any more info about it. It has two output jacks, I'm guessing one for each pickup? It's solid, pretty heavy and in very good condition for a 35 year old guitar.

Amen!

And, what with this encyclopedia of The Heritage and the treasure trove of info in threads over time relating to our blessed Heritage(s), we have our place If one wants to do any Heritage Guitar “deep diving”. Sometimes it’s not the cume, (defined as cumulative # of people coming through the door), but “Time Spent Listening”. As in my background, radio. Hit radio. And two roads to Rome as far as the radio ratings game worked— we have a lot of time spent reading. at any rate— HOC has a place and what a resource to any Heritage fan or curious type! carry on.

One could always have a new truss rod cover made with "40". Custom Inlay will make whatever you want, including in Heritage's shape, in Mother of Pearl, Black/White or Abalam.

I do like the idea of a "40 Years" or "40th Anniv" as a 12 fret marker, much like the Millennium 2000 used for the upper markers.

My 25th 535 only has a commemorative truss rod cover

I know she can't be including you!

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Get off my lawn!

My wife asks me that quite often

If memory serves, previous models had a banner inlay in the headstock.

Cleaning house I suppose. There were a few for sale on Reverb.

of course, they had to use a PICKUP truck to get them to the dump! 😃

At a minimum, they could have had a 40th Anniversary truss rod cover to set them apart...

Thanks ElNumero, I'll look forward to seeing what's available.

I totally agree huge mistake on their part. They could’ve put 40 on the 12th fret or something to commemorate it and to set it apart, other than the fact that you have to look at the serial number to know it’s a 2025 Guitar.I

Sorry Rich you keep lamenting about that and I’m sitting here with two of them in my closet!! no you can’t have one

Why would they sell off the templates and to whom?? Makes no sense

Built 40 years after the plant opened in 85.

FYI- I purchased a 2016 new old stock H155M in vintage wine burst last year at the plant. It was hanging in the showroom and I couldn’t resist. They made me a very sweet deal. They buffed it, gave it a PLEK job, and a setup before shipping it out to me. Heritage takes care of their HOC constituents.

Thanks DetroitBlues. I think I have my wife convinced to go; she enjoyed Kalamazoo the last time we were there.

You can buy direct from the factory show room, usually at a discount too, so you'll save some money there. I bought my H150 that way 2 years ago. Plus, you may find some unique one-off's you will not find in any store too. Back to the original point, rough cutting of solid bodies and necks are all that CNC work does. The CNC's are heavily used for the Harmony guitars, so you'll see a lot of them on the machines.