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Many people out there obsess over this stuff. A '59 Les Paul is the Stradivarius of the guitar world!!
Like it or not.
Can Terry build me a guitar that sounds like like Barbra Streisand?
I think that should be the new standard in tone comparisons. "That '59 Les Paul sounds pretty good, but does it do a convincing Barbra Streisand?"
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Hey it's friday. A better shot of that trans black H150.
Mic stand? Abuse on the front I might try & get refinned. Hey people pay extra for fake abuse & aging: does the real thing look as good? Lol
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14 hours ago, nuke said:
Yes, I have. A bunch of them actually.
Schaller made pickups from the same stuff everyone else does. Here's one fully apart. Alnico V magnet, 42AWG copper wire, 8.5k DCR, I have the electrical and magnetic measurements as well, Inductance, Ls 4.98 henries, Q2.02, Cs 98pf, DCR 8.394k.
Also the same pickup being characterized on my oscilloscope with an exciter coil connected to a signal generator.
This is great!
I think there's a lot of variation in parts though: I've heard winders talk about different wire coatings, certainly there are different magnet materials, and types of magnet casting. So to lump it together as "the same stuff everyone else uses" glosses over a lot of details
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11 hours ago, Kuz said:
The aluminum Pinnacle bridge and stoptail on the 150 Custom Core is definitely a step in the right direction, but I wish (for at least the CC models) they would have used a locking Faber ABR or an original ABR-1 bridge. The biggest problem with the Pinnacle bridge is it uses proprietary bridge studs (screwed directly into the top) that are larger in diameter than the original ABR-1. The Faber locking ABR bridge will still work if you use the Pinnacle bridge studs, the Pinnacle thumb wheels, and the Pinnacle locking top screws. I am not sure if a traditional (non-locking) ABR-1 will fit with the large Pinnacle studs.
Original hardware...
Locking Faber bridge (using Pinnacle bridge studs, thumb wheels, and top locking caps. Locking Faber stoptail studs using the Pinnacle aluminum bridge. Stoptail is flat to the body.
Hey that's good to know about, thanks Kuz!
I wonder if Heritage would just sell us an unloaded CC body, since we end up replacing all the parts anyway? And without the bridge posts drilled out.
They could call it the "Naked Custom Core"
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Has anyone pulled apart a Schaller & documented what kind of wire & magnets they used?
There has to be a quantitative reason they sound like they do.
I've heard audio & studio transformer experts talking about metallurgy & formulas being a key part of their sound: trade secrets, sometimes lost forever after businesses folded, and modern materials not having the same character. In something as basic as a gtr pickup, maybe raw materials matter more?
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Yeah my #1 H150 is a "94 or so. All I did was put an Aluminium tailpiece on, abr1 style bridge, Wolfetone Legend pups.
At one point I installed a custom boutique wiring harness, but I changed it back to stock as it sounded better.
I think I put some vintage bumblebees, or Russian PIO caps in too.
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Wow, that's a nice 535!! Congrats!
Interesting about the magnet strength differences. I had HRW's in a 535 too & eventually swapped in other pups to experiment. They looked just like that. Pup swaps in a 535 are a hassle & as I liked the other pups, I eventually sold the HRW's since they were just sitting in a drawer.
Good to hear you found a case!
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That's a great pic!
I have a guitar that belonged to a dead man. I think of him every time I pick it up. I hope he approves of the stuff I play on it.
RIP
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Ozone, baby!
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Hey that's good info on the vintage BB's
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Great setlist!!
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I tossed that last sentence out in a hurry & can't edit the post anymore: but "crap" is an exaggeration of what I meant to say.
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Yeah I was going to say, a Nashville bridge is nothing to brag about! Lol
But I still use them, prefer an ABR-1 though.
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I had a Gibson R7 LPC black beauty reissue & while it sounded good, it must have weighed 12 lbs or more, and the tuners were crap. They sort all their heaviest mahogany body blanks into the LPC builds for some stupid reason. I bet the original 50s LPC's didn't weigh 12 lbs.
I custom ordered a Heritage H157, asked them to use all mahogany for the body just like the original 50's LPC's, and unlike the H157's which had a maple cap.
I transferred the Throbaks I had in the R7 BB into the H157 and that guitar just kills!
Then I suggested to Marv they should make that a standard Heritage model, just like the original 50s Les Paul Customs. With P90s too. I said all the vintage aficionados out there might be quite fond of that idea. Heritage did make that limited edition P90 mahogany H157 run about a year later.
Anyway in that case, this Heritage H157 is definitely a better guitar. I think a lot depends on the wood, and the weight. Which is unique to each instrument. Once you start using different pickups & hardware there's other variables at play, hard to generalize. Good wood & crap parts? Crap wood & good parts?
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I've tried to like Schaller humbuckers: I deliberately left them in gtrs for a while because I thought ppl were just being finicky or parroting stuff they'd heard people say. In every case after I put duncans, lollars, throbaks, js moore, sheptones, or wolfetones in, the gtr sounded much better.
I even sold a set of HRW's cheap to someone here, not long before they $uddenly became desireable. They didn't work for me. Sounded good for jazz & chet atkins stuff through a clean amp though. Which is probably what they were designed around.
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Great photos! Nice 575, and that looks like a nice chill gig. What tunes did you play?
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On 4/23/2024 at 8:41 PM, Jwmusic said:
Purely my own experience and anecdotes from others. I own a 98 H150 and a late 80s- early 90s 535. Both are incredible guitars and every person who has tried them comments on them, both will be on tour with me for a up coming project.
Ive heard a lot of people say about this era being sought after as the best was incredible and the worst just average. However I have also heard of the inconsistency’s of this era but I’d argue that’s down to the hand made nature.
Conversely, I’ve played several transition years heritages from across the range and they were all average at best and mediocre at worst. The shop I work for was a UK dealer at the time and could not shift them for this reason. Poor finishing such as bad fret work, poor woods, defects such as incorrect neck angle, electrical issues and just general poor QC when compared to the obvious comparatives.
I have heard since the new take over quality has vastly improved again and they are once again the sort after guitars they were.This is good to hear, from someone who worked in retail & has experience from those years. I remember the shitshow of opinions when Heritage was trying to deal with QC at that time.
Myself I don't really have issues with most of that as I do my own setups, and don't care about cosmetics a lot, but I could see why a lot of people did. And if you're trying to establish a reputable brand of quality, it's absolutely important.
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I wonder if stuffing permeable bags full of activated charcoal inside the body would work?
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I've heard charcoal absorbs odors. I wouldn't leave it in contact with the gtr though. Maybe put the gtr in a closet with a hanging mesh bag full of charcoal?
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On 4/20/2024 at 7:07 PM, HANGAR18 said:
As long as it wasn't Brent. hahahaha
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" Riding in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim: You know, those were different times..."
My Final 150 Artisian Aged Custom Core Mod/Improvement
in Heritage Guitars
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Congrats on the gtr mods Kuz! looks great