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My favorite finish! so nice.

Blame it on Eric clapton the woman tone, Jimmy page and of course Gary moore !! Lol irony is they all use G brand and thats how the R9, R7,R8,R0 was born to capture buyers like us looking for that famous tone, branding and look.... we been pressed by media in our heads, records magazines , posters were mostly famous players holding on to their Geez... inevitably we been suck into this deep dollars trench... yet in my humblest G is something special only on their upper tier their Rs.... their standards ,deluxe, classic has all been rounded up by H150 (standard) thats just my point of view....

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Wow this looks fantastic !!! What a piece with white limba !....

Many people out there obsess over this stuff. A '59 Les Paul is the Stradivarius of the guitar world!! Like it or not. Can Terry build me a guitar that sounds like like Barbra Streisand? I think that should be the new standard in tone comparisons. "That '59 Les Paul sounds pretty good, but does it do a convincing Barbra Streisand?"

They’ve been gone for a long time sir.

When you commission a custom build from Terry McInturff he will ask you for a SPECIFIC audio example of WHICH "Holy Grail Vintage Les Paul" you want him to replicate the tone of on his builds. He has FIVE different "Holy Grail Vintage Les Paul" tone voicing you can choose. He says there are 5 tonal choices because each "Vintage Burst LP" sounds different. Then he cautions to make sure you are factoring in the amp that was played, the speakers in the amp, and if any pedals were used with the recording of the "Vintage Burst Tone" you want him to try to replicate.

Hey it's friday. A better shot of that trans black H150. Mic stand? Abuse on the front I might try & get refinned. Hey people pay extra for fake abuse & aging: does the real thing look as good? Lol

This is great! I think there's a lot of variation in parts though: I've heard winders talk about different wire coatings, certainly there are different magnet materials, and types of magnet casting. So to lump it together as "the same stuff everyone else uses" glosses over a lot of details

Hey that's good to know about, thanks Kuz! I wonder if Heritage would just sell us an unloaded CC body, since we end up replacing all the parts anyway? And without the bridge posts drilled out. They could call it the "Naked Custom Core"

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Yeah, Rotomatics are incredibly heavy.

If you want to let go of them, I'll take them off your hands. If nothing else, send them to me and I can measure them and send them back unharmed.

In a bright solid state amp the tone is going to be much different than what I'm accustomed to. And I think both of these pickups sound good in this demo. I like Rick Severson's demos for jazz style playing/voicing, but that's worlds different from the tones I like to go for. But when he was riffing towards the end of the demo I heard some things I liked and that was with the Seths. That guy is a monster player!!!

I'm glad to hear this because I LOVE Schaller tuners.

Well said, Kuz. My take on the whole thread is this: Who cares? So an H150 might sound different from a Gibson LP. So what? That doesn't make it a bad or undesirable guitar. The entire 'holy grail' thing about LP tone is utter nonsense. Why should that be the standard by which everything else is judged? I think people should look at how much they enjoy an instrument's playability first--if you don't enjoy playing it, you're not likely to play it--, and maybe its sound later. Sound can be altered in so many ways from pickups to pedals to amps to amp settings, and I think it's pointless to chase after some mythical sound they think they hear from something manufactured 65 years ago.

Look, this is a very subjective and controversial subject on what impacts the tone of a guitar the most. I will default to Terry Mcinturff (master luthier and has made guitars for all major artists). Check him out on YouTube. His main concept is that pickups are only microphones that amplify the acoustic sound of an electric guitar's chassis. He states how Barbara Streisand's voice will definitely will change (mostly tonally) when she sings through different vintage microphones, but her basic vocal characteristics (her vibrato, her vocal range, her loudness and punch, ect) are still the same. His point; the wood dictates the essentials of an electric guitar's tone & sustain. Different pickups will change the overall tone/timbre, but it won't enhance the sustain, or the openness, or fix muddy or thin guitars. Pickups can only magnify what the acoustic tone coming from the body's chassis is producing. I have owned two McInturff's (still own one Carolina Custom) and it is truly the best single cut/LP style guitar, I have ever played. Bottom line, when shopping for an electric guitar spend most of your time playing it acoustically listening for the overall tone, sustain, and check for dead spots (sustain and dead spots can't be fixed by different pickups).

I did the same to my Heritages in the past and I lost 5-6ozs in weight!!!

The aluminum Pinnacle bridge and stoptail on the 150 Custom Core is definitely a step in the right direction, but I wish (for at least the CC models) they would have used a locking Faber ABR or an original ABR-1 bridge. The biggest problem with the Pinnacle bridge is it uses proprietary bridge studs (screwed directly into the top) that are larger in diameter than the original ABR-1. The Faber locking ABR bridge will still work if you use the Pinnacle bridge studs, the Pinnacle thumb wheels, and the Pinnacle locking top screws. I am not sure if a traditional (non-locking) ABR-1 will fit with the large Pinnacle studs. Original hardware... Locking Faber bridge (using Pinnacle bridge studs, thumb wheels, and top locking caps. Locking Faber stoptail studs using the Pinnacle aluminum bridge. Stoptail is flat to the body.

I really love that Teye, REALLY, REALLY love it. But in the past, I have never been able to get along with a guitar with 3 humbuckers.

I am sorry, YES, you are correct they were Sperzel tuners, not Schallers that stripped out. I stand corrected, thanks for bringing that to my attention.

Personally, I liked the Schallers better. You be the judge.

Yes, I have. A bunch of them actually. Schaller made pickups from the same stuff everyone else does. Here's one fully apart. Alnico V magnet, 42AWG copper wire, 8.5k DCR, I have the electrical and magnetic measurements as well, Inductance, Ls 4.98 henries, Q2.02, Cs 98pf, DCR 8.394k. Also the same pickup being characterized on my oscilloscope with an exciter coil connected to a signal generator.

I think they do, I've swapped many magnets around and have heard some pretty big differences. I've even heard changes from pole piece slugs! Funny thing though I mostly apply this to guitars when I'm looking for a classic PAF sound. My Teye guitar has potted Lollars (very light potting), a 5 way switch, and a mood knob (which is like HPF), crazy aluminum bridge and tailpiece, and I love the sound of that guitar! I doesn't have the classic Gibson/Heritage sound though.

Has anyone pulled apart a Schaller & documented what kind of wire & magnets they used? There has to be a quantitative reason they sound like they do. I've heard audio & studio transformer experts talking about metallurgy & formulas being a key part of their sound: trade secrets, sometimes lost forever after businesses folded, and modern materials not having the same character. In something as basic as a gtr pickup, maybe raw materials matter more?