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Welcome Steve! Nice ax you have there.

 

 

Thank you.

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Sorry for your losses, hope you are doing better now.

 

Wow! I've never seen a 575 with a Bigsby, that looks really cool!

 

I believe it originally came with the Bigsby, but also humbuckers. The P-90's appear to be Kent Armstrong "50's"

I had a trapeze on it for a while but went back to the Bigsby.

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Hello. I was registered here before losing a son to lymphoma in 2008, and losing my wife to lung cancer Jan 2012.

 

So now I'm back and ready to, participate here again after a marathon of care-giving and some travel.

 

My avatar shows my H-575 with a trapeze tailpiece, but I originally got it with a Bigsby:

 

 

 

Then recently I scored a used Eagle Classic:

 

 

 

I'm retired from my day job and now I play in a Funk band called "Soul Doubt," after making TENS of dollars playing "dinner" jazz, locally.

 

Hiya fellas.

-Steve

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...Not sure how the plating got so dull without the surrounding body or bridge being affected as well...

 

Maybe it's nickel, and the other parts chrome.

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Welcome to the HOC, sonar. Beautiful guitar and some excellent photography too!

 

Thanks!

 

My phone is capable if the light and subject is right, as in this case.

 

I love that the Heritage is solid maple plates and rims. I had a similiar Gibson ES-175 that of course was laminated - with the same look - but MUCH more expensive. The Gibson version didn't sound very good either.

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This is my 1999 H-575 I bought used.

 

Looks like it came stock with humbuckers, then a previous owner changed for P-90's. I also believe it came stock with the Bigsby I took off and replaced with a German-made AllParts.

 

I use it for everything. Currently on hiatus from a so-called "jazz" quintet (mostly pop standards and old showtunes, but we come back from breaks with real straight ahead jazz tunes mostly before the vocalist comes back).