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Someday I might get it re sprayed

I highly doubt it 🥴

There is a reason why I have the pros work on my 535. Electronics through a tiny opening with my sausage fingers don't go well. If I'm not mistaken, aren't Heritages all buffed and polished prior to electronics? This could be a reason why, especially on exposed electronics on hollow/semi-hollow bodies.

I don't know if simply buffing would have fixed it, but the advantage of nitro is that it could have been resprayed with clear and then buffed out. I don't know that Heritage would do it but Arnie Hileski or Dave Teske might have been able to do it.

And I’m a lucky guy that has an LW 150 they’re pretty rare!!!! Funny thing, though it’s really not as light as you would think. It’s still about 8 pounds or so.

Well, Brent, you could’ve saved yourself a lot of trouble by just taking it to Heritage after disassembling it. They would’ve buffed it out for you.

Because it increases the value!

I'm really not impressed by them. I will stick with my heavy ones with the beefier neck. Just my personal taste. I really don't like the original dropping prices. Not good for the resale value, not that I have plans to part with either of mine.

Oh yeah Rich!!! It’s a real joy!!!

Thanks Scott!!!

Thank you Tim!!!

@brentrocks...Brother, you are the original 'fix-it dude' when it comes to battered Heritage guitars. Like your former broke-neck 535 of a few years back, this restored CC 535 came out great!

I don't think that any of us have been privy to the current practice. Some years back they had the LW series which we saw, and of course we are familiar with the Millennium. I don't remember seeing any H150 body blanks with chambers when we visited back in August. Tim Pierce just did a video about his special guitar and their new Standard II guitars.

Any info on the type of chambering Heritage is using? Trashedman

Rapid and drastic changes in temperature and/or humidity check lacquer.

Those are some nice licks 😅

Great job Brent! You put a lot of work into that axe and it looks much better. Enjoy!

Ive never worried about dinging or scratching a guitar, Im going to at some stage if Im going to put serious play time on it. My most gigged guitars are the most dinged, scratched and worn. What relics are good for, for me, are taking in trades, because they are easy to sell on, there is a demand. I took on a lot of them because of that. Oh man, I spent so much time trying to be less direct. I cut paragraphs out and redid them, then deleted them, reworded what I kept, re edited again.....all I want to say is, I cant stand relic'd guitars

No worries.. As you know, it's always so easy to work on the electrics of a semi hollow guitar. 😕 When I was working on my 535, somehow the lead from a tone cap broke off. Turn the knob and ... nothing changes. So it's pull the harness out and do it all again.

This was so funny….well not at the time, but…. So it’s about 10:00 last night, I have the guitar all put back together, setup, playing great/sounding great…. And I flip the toggle to the neck pickup….and it sounds EXTREMELY BASSY!!! Like funky out of phase or something??? I turn the tone pot and it sounds like it’s getting brighter as I turn it down!! Drastic change in tone. So I’m like, dammittt…got a bad pot or something it touching something it’s not supposed to….when I dropped the electronics earlier. So I unscrew the toggle and pots, fish it around to look at the neck tone pot…. THERES A GOB OF POLISHING COMPOUND ON THE MIDDLE POLE OF THE POT TOUCHING GROUND!!!! OMG. I felt like such a dummy. LOL 😆

Thank you Lyle!! I cannot imagine why someone would take a $4900 guitar and take sandpaper to it??? All I can say is….DONT DO DRUGS. LOL. 😆

NIce job, Brent. It totally baffles me as to why someone would want to mark up a beautiful, new, expensive guitar like that. I just don't get it.

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