Leaderboard

Well it looks great. I know that building guitars can stir up the dust, but when I looked at pictures of the old shop before the new guard came in, it just looked gloomy and a safety nightmare. And it seems to me that the quality of the new guitars coming out of Heritage has improved. I have played quite a few of the new Heritages, and I've been impressed with all but one of them (a H530 that just wouldn't intonate and the aging was way over the top).The rest of the new ones that I've played had properly cut nuts and nice fretwork, whereas all of my "golden years" needed work in those areas. And I liked that the few H150s that I played were reasonable weight, surely not boat anchors. I'm sure Heritage lost a lot of their archtop building expertise, with the retirement of Marv and Ren, but hopefully, Pete can train some of the new guys and they can rebuild their archtop line.

Same here. I really was kind of afraid of the learning curve. But after my first experience, which was a Digitech GSP1101 and conquering my fear, I was able to start to undererstand it. Then I got the Helix and other Line 6 stuff. All of these things are capable of doing a shit ton more than I would ever know what to do with. I just wanted a simple pedalboard and it gives me that. Plus little by little, I have been able to do more and more. They are all pretty similar in the same way that most DAWs are similar, meaning if you understand one, the rest are fairly simple

The paint booth is a huge improvement over the old setup on the third floor. The air is filtered in so that there's no dust to settle on a wet finish. Guitars are hung to dry, and the safety is a big factor as the solvent vapors are kept to a minimum in the room. There is a lot less wood dust in the shop itself. They invested a good deal of money in the dust collector system. Wood dust can be a dangerous fire and explosion hazard.

That’s Bill.