Hello, my name is Milt, from the motor city, I've just tuned in to this site and have been pretty impressed with the information on it. I have a question for anybody out there that can shed some light on this subject. I have recently purchased a Heritage red/orange sunburst 555, actually it was a gift. it plays quite well, but upon looking at the detail, I've noticed that the binding around the body has a blurring of some of the lines and there not symmetrical, I inquired at the shop it was purchased, and he said that this is normal, due to the labor intensive nature of the process, apparently it's a 5 day process, nothing is done on computers and that it is a 5 ply hand made process which will have some inherent irregularities, it's not immediately noticeable at a glance, but nevertheless for a high end instrument I wouldn't expect to see this. I called the heritage factory and he said this is a normal variation due to the old school way of doing this.., he said this sight unseen. I'm just concerned that my wife paid top dollar for a product, that might not be the best example of Heritage's best work. Any ideas comments.., suggestions.., am I being too anal??
