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Me & the 3 amigos.

Received this when the sight was down. Honestly underwhelmed. I would have thought Heritage would have done some more special items on it. I have already talked to Custom Inlays about doing a few additions to it. I'll make it Special.

Yes, they are making their version of a staple pickup. Square Alnico magnets, P90 size. The head winder was showing a couple of us how he is making them. That guy is like a chef in the kitchen when it comes to pickups!

My first Heritage was a blonde 576. It was a great guitar that lent itself to just about any style of music. Gigged it a bunch. Ultimately put a set of Duncan Phat Cats in it, a terrific marriage. I'll always have a soft spot for that guitar! And yikes, haven't seen this picture in ages. Must be from close to twenty years ago....

WOW!!!! I love my 157s!!!

A pair of tuxedos! Very nice. I love the look of the 157. It was my choice when I ordered my first Heritage over 20 years ago.

Pressure, I hear you. Here's the piece of Mun Ebony I chose for the fretboard of my Doug Harrison custom archtop. He was allowed to put a maximum of two MOP inlays on the top of that lovely slab. (Fortunately, he did put inlays along the side as well.)

I agree that the half & half fretboard inlays were not the best design. I had Heritage correct that with a Millie custom build in 2011. Sunburst Spruce Millie from 2011 on the right Millie SuperLight from 2017 on the left. I had a change in guitar philosophy in my later custom builds preferring more wood less shell.

Yeah, you were so much older then, you're younger than that now!!!! 😁

Even without jumping the channels the 5E3 volumes interact.

I think Fender is behind this.

This is my Roy Clark. It's the size of a 535 with a deep single cutaway and a bit more bling.

Abalone blocks are my all time favorite also...

The H-157 3 pickups guitar has H.R.W.s and it is a 2002. The 2 pickups H-157 is a 1999 with the Schaller golden 50s.

Double good introduction.

I also love P-90s. This is my H170 from 2014. Spruce back, very flamey maple top, ebony fretboard with 5mm pearl dots, 5-piece neck and ThroBak P-90s. It was Fab getting guitars built by Heritage. Good Times.

Yeah, I remember including that one in a 3 guitar trade to Brent. He had a 56’ Junior that I just had to have. That was late in 2013. I remember meeting Brent half way to do the exchange on a freezing rain laden Saturday morning. It was shortly before Christmas. That one is the only Heritage that I regret letting go of. As for the Junior, I moved that in 2016. It was a great player after a refret. But ultimately I still sounded like me playing it. Sad thing is that I should have held on to it for about another five years and quadrupled my money. 😫 I still think about that 150 a lot. Glad to see that it’s getting the love it deserves.

It won't have QC dates, but in that period, the serial number tells you when the number was assigned. 1994 should have a K serial number. The five digits of the serial number encode the day and order of manufacture for the guitar. The first group of three digits represent the days remaining in the year on the day the guitar was completed. The last two digits indicate the build order on that day. For example, a guitar with a serial number of B35012 can be decoded as follows: B: Year built is 1985 (a rare find, indeed!) 350: Built on the fifteenth day of the year (365-350=15) 12: The twelfth guitar completed on this day Unlike bolt neck guitars, you won't find dates in a neck pocket, or written in the pickup routes.

And just in time. I amost bought a Gibson......

And many,many thanks to the HOC technical team!!

Some of the inside baseball from PSP is they will soon be selling their pickups. Didn't get a specific time frame other than soon.

Chris, did you say Staple? No way!

I'm excited: Heritage is making their own staple P90's in house now

It's the flying monkeys!

Maybe we should switch to Asian porn instead of Swedish porn.

I bet that will catch a few "occasional" users. I had to check to see which of 5 emails was used.

The smart money is on a conspiracy by some other guitar forums. It’s a tough town.

I have a Fender 57 Custom Deluxe (Head-Cab) that sounds and responds like no other amp I've ever played through. The secret is in jumpering the inputs and using the guitar volume controls to bring out the magic in these old school 5e3 tweed rigs.

See…. We’re thinking alike.

--sorry for screwed up formatting on this post. Can't seem to fix it, and don't have time to start over... Gibson did move the neck joint to the 19th fret (like a 335) in 1968, and these are called "long-neck es330s or 330L's." There are a couple, both original and reissue, on sale on Reverb: We had a thread. about this years ago. There's a post that I think TalismanRich made that shows the interior of a 530, which has a pretty substantial block.https://www.heritageownersclub.com/forums/topic/37263-question-about-the-h-530/

FWIW, with the Gibson ES330, the neck joins at a different point than an ES335. On the H-530, it joins at the same point as the H-535. You can see that the bridge is mounted at a different point of the f hole. It was something I noticed when I was trying out a Blues Driver and used an ES330. It felt different than my 530, and I couldn't at first, figure out why. Here are the Gibsons vs the Heritages.

I have a 5e3 here that needs an exercise program. Would you care to run her?

Shundog and I put orders for our KPB tweed deluxe amps within days of each other. His was built first followed by mine. I still have mine, it’s amazing

5E3 amps are great, one of my favorites, I've always liked the Fender tweed amps the best. When they grind they are glorious, But be aware for stage use they don't have a lot of clean headroom, and if your drummer is a hard hitter a 5E3 may not have enough clean tone on tap. Some samples of my Clark 5E3 from clean to dirty, the last sample I am using an Origin Effects Revival Drive...

The 576 is semihollow, laminate top and back with solid rims. Here's the spec from the '89 catalog. I have the H525 which is thinner, laminate like the 576 but fully hollow and with P90s. It's a bit like a smaller version of the 550 to my thinking. 16" vs 17", 24.75 vs 25.5 scale, both semihollow, so you should have a center block. 2 3/4" thick vs 2 7/8" It's not shown in the 2005 catalog that I have. It was shown in the '93 catalog.

Welcome aboard. Love the guitars and the special pickups!

My favorite Heritage inlays are the abalone blocks. I haven't seen an example come out of the factory for a very long time. The H-555 inlays are less than subtle. The design came from the same guys who produced the controversial headstock. Both have grown on me. I don't even notice. If I do, it's part of old Heritage's personality, and I smile.

Great story. Great photo.

Years ago, I played in a country band and we did a lot of winter gigs in Wyoming. We would do 2 nights at each bar, and we would leave our amps in the equipment van overnight. It would get cold as hell up there, sometimes below 0 with windchill. I didn't want to leave one of my expensive tube amps out in the cold, so I bought a Peavey Special 130 which was like a Bandit just more powerful. I paid a few hundred bucks for it used and it never falted once. When I quit that band, I gave it to a close friend who needed an amp. But while I had it, I was surprised how good that amp sounded! I had a simple pedal board that I made with a piece of scrap plywood painted black, that had a volume pedal, Rat distortion, Danelectro DanEcho Delay and a Boss tuner. That was all I needed to get the job done with that amp. Talk about a cheap rig! My guitar was an early seventies Les Paul Deluxe.

If the TRC is mushroomless, it’s not a real GOG Heritage!

Thanks for all of the work done behind the scenes to re-boot the HOC!!!

Thanks Mark

Good to see the site back up and running. There are lots of us that missed it. Hats off to whomever did the recovery.

Take the control panel off in the back, and it usually has a sticker behind it

Today was designated as a work-around-the-house day, so I went to my T-shirt drawer and pulled one out at random. Haven't seen this one in a while. From the very first PSP! That led to an unbroken string of PSPs Marg and I attended, until Covid interrupted things. I recall that first PSP very well. Only something like 16 or 17 of us HOC members there. Plant tour by Ren. As Pressure would say, good times. But good grief, that was 18 years ago! Were you there?

Ohhhh. The good ol days