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Am late to the game lol.... any idea do they build any thing alike or in the path of the duncan Jazz/JB ? I just bought a used Gibson 490R/495T after hearing the clips on youtube on these gibson 495T set vs duncan JB.... and the tone on these are great!! Be getting the Faber bridge post soon too hope the Faber bridge for nashville be a contributing factor on the tone being more mids accentuated & louder acoustically when played non plugged in....

I have read so many arguments about wood making a difference, the discussions seem to fall apart into chaos and anger. I’m not sure how anyone could argue with Terry Mcinturff though. I also firmly feel wood plays a huge role in the sound of the guitar and feel of the guitar. It is why I love my 150 so much, it is a joy to play plugged in or not. It is a joy to thump the neck with my finger and hear what it sounds like. When the guitar sounds great unplugged or just tapped on with a finger it will definitely sound great with good hardware, electronics and a great amp. They all come together for a killer sound. I play all my guitars unplugged the majority of the time. When I plug them in they all translate the unplugged sound and feel into the amp. I don’t use pedals and all my amps are fender derived so not super high gain and I think that really allows the guitar to express itself. Each one has its own character but they are all LP derived.

TO ME, the best repro PAF ever made and by far the most consistent from set to set. All my humbucker guitars have them and they are perfect for me. I have tried Lollars, Wolftones, Seth Lovers, Gibson Custombuckers, Peter Florence Voodoo Specials, and MANY more... none (TO ME) were close to Throbaks. Luckily, I bought most of my Throbaks years ago when they were more affordable!

Thanks!! She is a keeper warts and all!!

Throbak sle101s just sound so natural tonally....

Great looking axe with fantastic upgrades! Enjoy!

My 150 Artisian Aged Custom Core has been a labor of love in modifying it to how I wanted it to look and sound. Like the theory behind the 150 CC, I used a '59 LP Burst as my inspiration. -Some of the mods were merely just personal choice; 1) I greatly prefer A2 magnets over A3 magnets so I installed a used set of Throbak SLE 101s pickups with aged covers. 2) I like the look of the Rhythm/Treble "poker chip" pickup selector 3) I replaced the orange drop caps with the same values in repro Bumble Bee paper & oil caps 4) For consistency in pot values and taper I installed RS Guitarworks 500K volume and tone pots -Some of the mods were just necessary functionally; 1) the bridge studs and the stoptail studs were drilled at an angle instead of straight into the top from the factory so the TOM bridge & stoptail wouldn't lower completely. So a Faber locking ABR bridge and Faber locking StopTail studs were used to fix the original off angle bridge & stoptail studs. 2) three of the aged tuners stripped and became useless. I replaced them with CHROME (I couldn't find Nickel ones which I would have preferred) Gotoh tuners that were a direct drop in, lighter, and had improved tuning ratio. .... BUT WAIT, A MAJOR UPDATE ON NEW AGED NICKEL FINISHED GOTOH TUNERS.... SO... the last 150 CC mod/improvement was buying on Ebay some new Antique Nickel Finish Gotoh tuners. To me, the Chrome on the Gotohs tuners was a complete eyesore with the aged finish of the rest of the 150 CC. These new Antique Nickel Finish Gotoh tuners were not cheap ($110 + shipping) but to me they were the final piece in the puzzle to getting my Aged 150 CC to look close to Vintage LP Burst. (I also added some Kluson-like tuner buttons to finish the transformation) BEFORE with the CHROME GOTOH tuners AFTER with the new ANTIQUE NICKEL GOTOH 510 tuners

There was a pretty good jazz guitarist I knew as a kid. He was not finicky about his instruments. I think he used a old beat up ES-175. There was no point talking to him about instruments. I brought my guitars to him a couple of times with some trivial concerns. He'd play them then say stuff like it works don't it? He was a studio musician.

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....

Sick!!

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.