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I think I've only ever seen one other in person, one with the "Gummi" head, and that was totally unplanned.

Ive been looking for Stats and Parson Street models for the last month or so. Parson Street model never shows up anywhere! That one is really nice.

It is a Parsons Street with the more normal head. I swapped out the EMG active pickups, 'cause that isn't really what my ear wants...

All great looking guitars. The grain on the first one!!! That last one, is it a Stat Deluxe hard tail or Parson Street hard tail?

As far as looking at the wonders of wood, definitely this one As far as sounding... probably this one, which is an employee personal build with Burstbusters. I did the pickguard to see what I could do with fiddleback As far as exotic...

Mostly because Marv’s DNA is all over this one.

Gotta say, Heritage has made some darn pretty gee-tars.

I was going to wait for you to sell it.

😄 "Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left you'll find my favourite axe Don't look so frightened, this is just a passing phase, one of my bad days"

Plan for next year is to give back to all those who have helped me through dark times so I can retain what I have but make whole of what I possess.

That H530 Burnt Amber is fabulous 🙂 I remember that picture being inspiring when I decided to ask for my Custom Order H535, good times

Here is a pic of my new axe. Purchased from Sweetwater. Just love the color. I have played both the H530 Custom and the H530 Standard and there is quite a bit of difference in the tone (at least to my ears). The Std sounds a bit more compressed while the Custom has a very articulate sound. The guitar came ready for action right out of the box. No adjustments needed. I had to post a pic from Sweetwater because my pics have too large a file size

Any guitar that goes through my hands will play like a beast, Factory original this on was one of my favorite sounding too with the Antiquities... A Real Winner!

I'll add two more pics. This is one of their Gretsch Synchromatics.

It's hard to choose favorites. Here are two. The first is a Johnny Smith 18". The second is a H-530 custom made with humbuckers.

Gitfiddler, you’re killing me! There is none more fair across the land. Now that I think about it, I haven’t a 157…

@Steiner.....If I decide to sell this Chestnut triple-set lady, you'll be first to know, my friend. 👍 My favorites: Of course, there’s your Fine 157 in chestnut sunburst, the 3 holer @Gitfiddler, I understand it’s a sin to covet another’s beauty but that guitar has haunted me since I first saw her.

My favorite Heritage and me waiting to go play at a jam. 2001 H535 in blonde, with HRW's. I put the Faber bridge and tail on it, and a set of lightweight Gotoh tuners. The heavy Rotomatics were really stiff from disuse. I got this one used a few years ago. It was absolutely pristine with virtually no sign of play. I picked it up browsing at a guitar shop, wasn't even looking. But it instantly had "the sound" that I look for in a great semi-hollow 535 or 335 style guitar. It had a problem that explained the utter lack of play. The fretboard was like a roller coaster. Some heroic efforts to level the frets on the wavy fretboard had been done to it along its history. Some of the frets were tall as brand new wire, others were under .030 tall, what most of us would call worn out. The fret tops were level, but the board wasn't. The neck itself, straight as an arrow. The surface of the board was nuts. I tried everything I could think of, but just one day said, "this is it." and grabbed my fret puller pliers and took them all out. I put some fine grit paper on my leveling beam and lightly sanded, which revealed all the high and low areas. Pretty much like a lunar landscape it turned out. Also, I measured the radius at around 9.25 inches which kind of meandered up and down the neck. Clearly, this one escaped the factory with a wonky fretboard. The fret nibs were all intact, so no question it was built this way. I leveled the fingerboard and flattened the radius down to about 10". I was already sanding into the pearl dots by then. Didn't want to get into replacing inlays, so I stopped about there. Put in a set of Dunlop medium jumbo wire. With the board leveled out, the frets went in nicely and only needed minimal leveling after installation. I put in a CNC-cut nylon 6/6 nut. Nylon was used on the Gibson's of the late 50's and early 60's. It is a fabulous material for guitar nuts. Hard, durable, and extremely slippery. The Faber hardware went on after. The Schaller stuff was shiny and clean without a single speck of corrosion, but I'm so used to tune-o-matic bridges, I changed it. The most amazing bit of that were the deep bushings Faber offers for their ABR and the tailpiece. They sink much deeper and tighter into the wood and really get in that maple center block a lot better than the short and skinny Schaller bushings. The tone change from the bushings alone was remarkable. And here she is. This is a 100% keeper for life guitar. It's everything a semi-hollow guitar should be. Plays like butter, sings like a bird.

I am currently without a Heritage. I’ve owned an H-137 and an H-550. I’d really like to find an H-525 with a chubby 50’s style neck.

For some reason I cannot explain, I sold all of my favorite Heritage guitars. However, that does not diminish how much I like the Heritage guitars now.

So many Fab guitars. How about the "Centurion" while we're at it?

Another I would love to snatch! Thanks TR.

Did you forget the Katie's Psycho Popsicle H-150?