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Beauties both! I like stingers

I don't know why stingers are put on good looking guitars. It must be to hide something.

I'm getting together with 3 other guys to play some tunes on Tuesday. I've been using the 535, but this week, the new H-530 will make it's debut. I did a couple minor tweaks a week ago, and it's playing nicely and seems to have settled in. I think the wood just needed to stabilize to it's environment. I ordered a Joyo wireless set a week and a half ago. I figured that this Tuesday would be a good test. The post office seems to have lost it. It made it to our distribution center in 1 day from Cincinnati and then nothing for a week. I filed a lost package report and they can't find it. Then the tracking says it will deliver Monday, only 9 days late! I should have just had my daughter order it on her Amazon Prime and it would have been here 10 days ago!

Fine looking H-555s. Dibs.

Two beautiful guitars!! Congrats!!

Wow!!!

Nicely done my friend. Again, you have a way of finding the great instruments.

Nice pickup. That's a great pedal.

beautiful guitars.

Very nice!

Yes, the heels are different. For most it won't make much difference. I like the smaller heel for a little better high fret access. OTOH, some great blues players do fine with the larger heel. The stinger is a different story. It improves tone right off the charts! Actually I don't know what the point of the stinger is except to hide the wood beneath it. Also, sometimes the stinger is off center, which makes it worse than not being there.

How about stinger vs no-stinger, wowsers.

Wow. Both of them look spectacular!

Those are gorgeous! I always loved the semis in Natural, second only to the classic red. It's interesting to see the difference in the cap on the heals of each.

These are not quite identical twins and are old-school H-555s. One of them was made for Vince Lewis. That one I once owned and can tell you it plays perfectly. I'm told the other one is about the same. I'm trading one of my Heritage ghost built Gretsch Synchromatics plus some dough for these two with a long-standing friend and trading partner. Heritage wasn't run as tightly back in the days these were made, but the Vince one is perfect. I believe the other one is as well based on my friend's experience. The Vince build has Schallers, which I wouldn't change. The other one is stated to have HRWs, but I'm not sure. I recently got a newer build H-535 that has PRS pickups. It is extremely nice. I like the general formal of the semi-hollow.

Paul @ Green Oak has been serving HOC members for over 20 yrs as a very straight guy. I also have some incredible pieces of unsold, full warranty one of a kind Heritages. https://www.gbase.com/stores/american-classic-guitars I REALLY stepped back from selling during my divorce and I should get on getting about 50 guitars out in the real world!

some of the very coolest hippest Heritages ever have come through this shop. One of the ones I wish I'd never ever sold.....ahhh yes, the Duaneburst Custom H150....Even as an archtop hollow body loving jazz guy - I still pine for that one. I've never seen or played anything like it. One of our own here at HOC designed that masterpiece.

Snagged a new Strymon Flint for a good deal this past week. It offers a nice simple Reverb circuit as well as a Tremolo circuit with three flavors each and just enough knobs to tweak your sound without it turning into a science project.

Yes, I confess, I did it, it was me...... And yes, great to be back!!!!!! I've heard great things about the new Custom Core 150's, but also apparently the Ascent line, which I understand it's Heritage's budget versions, is supposed to be incredible and way better than Epiphone and the likes...?

Green Oak for sure!

As I recall (and that's a shot in the dark anymore), L. Paulverizer was a semi-regular here many moons ago. Good to see you back! The new Custom Core 150's are incredible! So good, I put my '61 PAF's in it!

Give Paul at Green Oak a shot first. One stand up guy!

And a Glorious “over 50” it is at that.