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I actually have a Seymour Duncan mini-humbucker with a P90 dogear pickup ring. Love how it sounds.

Some people like me don't even use the hardshell case unless its just for storage. I use a Mono gigbag for transporting as they have the best of both worlds for gigging. Protection of the headstock and neck like a hardshell case, but easier to grab and go with a shoulder strap.

The aged Heritages started four or five years ago, long before the CC lineup existed. So you can find both Standard and CC that are Artisian Aged. This particular example ss a standard core H535, you can tell by the lack of inlays in the headstock and dot inlays on the neck. As early as 2023, Heritage changed the headstock size for the Standard Core to be the same as the custom core. Plus CC only have hand-wound pickups from the factory. This one was $3499, the CC H535 starts at $3999 Looks like you cannot buy this one now anyway, and if rumors are true, you won't be able to at all

Baby got Back!!!!

No one will ever complain about having twin blondes!

Only person from Canada I remember being there was Bolero, but his guitars were borrowed from Pete Farmer.... Of course, there are other members too that I don't always remember where they are from....

Love the look of that new H575, the tort pickguard really stands out. Fine collection all around!

Beautiful 530! Congrats again Rich

I've sort of stopped chasing down tones in my head and chasing tones in my ears. I went down the rabbit hole for tone quests and found that tone in a room sounds different than tone on a recording. Pickups, guitars, strings, amps, speakers, microphones, where you pick the strings, how you pick the strings, post preamp equalization.... its maddening when you start to dig into it. I've only changed pickups in recent years for noise and feedback reduction. I think you'd be amazed how that beautiful H535 sounds depending on the amp and the use of the tone controls. I really love the middle position, I turn the volume on the bridge pickup to around a 7 or 8, roll back the tone to an 8. Then on the neck position, I'll roll the volume back just a touch at a time until it just adds a bit of warmth to the bridge pickup, usually it ends up around 6-7. When I need a bit for a lead solo, I'll go to the bridge and sometimes raise the volume up a bit. All this is accomplished to get a tone that I can clearly hear against the band and sounds good to me. I stopped chasing my hero's tones and just play to the song. One of my favorite tunes lately is Marshall Tucker's Can't You See. I'll play the flute and the lead guitar tracks with any of my guitars; by adjusting the controls I can make any of them sound pretty close to each other and they all have different pickups.... H150 with SD 59's, H137 with Mojotone Quiet Coil P90's, H535 with a Railhammer Neuvo in the neck and a Red Rock A3 humbucker in the bridge. I can use any of those guitars and achieve a tone that sounds good to me even if there is a slight difference in sound. Audiences don't know the difference. In other words, don't get too caught up yet on pickup being a problem, there is a lot more to the signal chain besides the pickups.

is that so you don't roll over and fall out of bed?

Hope the doc prescribed the fun meds... or is that prescribed for glaucoma?

Congrats Rich!

I think that Heritage was his reward for his internship.

Nice pics!

or quoted phrase as a matter of fact....

Hence the title, NFS. It's going to a display case, most likely in someone's office.

Didn't know it was an option, left a hole in my soul when I look at the empty space where it once shook the floorboards of the house...

May have to arrange that since I had to give up the Metropoulos back to its rightful owner.

For those who were at PSP this year, there was the oddest (perhaps ugliest ever) Heritage H-137 hanging on the wall. After seeing this rather unusual guitar on the wall, I asked about it. According to the folklore, Manny's Music was famous for not allowing people who weren't buying a guitar to play anything hanging on the wall. This was a problem for someone wanting to try an amp or pedal, so the solution was to use this aftermarket painted yellow Danelectro guitar that someone traded in for use on demoing gear. Didn't matter if you were someone off the street or a member of the Rolling Stones, you played this Danelectro if you wanted to try something out. For years, everyone wanted that ugly guitar because it played so well. According to an article, George Harrison offed $200 back in the early 70's to buy that guitar and was denied. So what does this have to do with this odd H137? We all know Heritage is partially owned by a corporation that bought the rights to Sam Ash and Manny's music. The RnR HOF owns that yellow Danelectro now and has it on display because of its history. The leadership team at Heritage decided to put their Custom Shop skills to the test and re-create that broken Danelectro with a Custom Core H137 painted up to resemble that beat up Dano. Here's the article: https://www.culturesonar.com/rockeology-old-yellow/

Of course, this is amazing too!

This explains that odd finish on some Heritage guitars... "I got a hold of 3M in Minnesota and we worked out the formula for 18% gray. We sprayed it on a card. We ended up spraying a lot of them here at Heritage for several years and sold them to all the photography stores. That 18% gray was also what we used for the finish on the 101 and the 105 Heritage guitar and bass. You didn't even have to sand it. You just made the body, sprayed it with an 18% gray and that was it. " So now we know (for those of us like me who didn't know) what that paint was on the 101's. The paint was actually a Ren Wall invention!

Maybe a collectors item to Roy Clarke fans, otherwise, not really a collector's guitar. Very few if any Heritages are collectors instruments unless they were celebrity owned (and documented of said ownership).

I’ve heard of such infamous gatherings. Alas, my granddaughter will be 1 that same day, therefore I must regrettably decline such divine sonic extravaganza.

It’s okay Brent, I’m sure you’ll break even in a month or two when you sell it.

I've had many Heritages over the years, one had a twisted neck and one had a truss rod that was maxed out. But that is two out of about a dozen I've had.