A very unique custom one off 157 inbound from Georgia TODAY!!!

[brentrocks]

This is a Heritage that I’m VERY excited about.  (I don’t get too excited about much anymore.  Lol)
 

It’s a 2006 H157?   I think?   I say that because it does have binding on the back of the body….but…doesn’t have multi ply binding on the top.   It does have an Ebony board (with abalone blocks) and it does have a bound and inlayed headstock.  
 

I haven’t seen the control cavity sticker yet.   Lol

This guitar was sold by the original owners brother…his brother was a gigging musician in Georgia.  Unfortunately he had passed away recently.  He told me that his wife custom ordered this guitar for her husband in 2006.   
 

I really don’t know much about it.  Don’t know how the frets are, don’t know the neck size, don’t know what pickups are in it, don’t know how much it weighs…..

Look at that top though….nice bubble quilt, definitely a custom order!!!

The fella I got it from seemed very honest and trustworthy, so I decided to take a chance on it.  
 

These were the only 5 pics I had to go by…

Its on the UPS truck for delivery today!!

STAY TUNED!!!!

 

[greywolf66]

Looks like big fun !

[JeffB]

  s'nice

[rockabilly69]

Cool looking guitar Brent. I love ebony fingerboards, and cool Sperzel tuners, much better than the Grovers. What the he*l did that guy do to his thumbnail though in that picture of the back of the guitar 

Looks like he was a player. He turned the neck pickup around. A lot of people do that to get a slightly brighter sound and clean up the neck tone, especially when you drop the pickup into the ring and bring up the pole piecers a bit. Check out my Guild. It made a significant difference tonewise. 

 

 

[brentrocks]

2006 Heritage H157

Custom order one off. 

*AAAAA Quilt top

*Single ply binding on both sides of the body (it’s usually 5 ply)

*Abalone blocks (usually pearl)

*Ebony fretboard 

*One piece mahogany body

*One piece mahogany neck

*Bound and Inlayed peghead

*Gold locking Sperzel tuners

*Gold hardware 

*8lbs 14ozs

*Really nice 59-ish neck carve

Just got this today from a gentleman in Georgia.  He was selling it because it belonged to his late brother, who was a gigging musician.   He said his wife custom ordered it in 2006

The original pickups, SD Seth lovers, were poorly wired into a rats nest harness…the tone pots didn’t even work.  So I rewired it, new pots, Russian PIO caps and different pups.   I wanted something with more bit…so I went with a SD JB/Lollar Imperial combo…and it sounds great!!!!!

The original nut is pretty worn.  The D and the G buzz just a bit. I’ll probably take it in for a new bone nut soon.  

The frets are original.  With minor wear.  

You can tell it was played.  There’s a bit of buckle rash on the back.  A few dings n dents.  Nothing more than a Murphy lab relic.   Lol.   😆 

The neck on this guitar is perfect, IMO. To me it feels like a custom core neck that went on a little diet.  Lol.  😂 

It’s not a boat anchor ⚓️.  Basically 9 lbs.  for a 157….thats not terrible.  

It plays and sounds so dammm good.  Wow!! 🤯
 

[brentrocks]

[brentrocks]

[Gitfiddler]

@brentrocks...Wow, beautiful H157 Custom!  Congratulations on yet another amazing score.  👍

[TalismanRich]

That's a gorgeous top!   I always liked the headstock on the 157 vs the 150.   The binding and the diamond inlay just look RIGHT!   I'm also partial to the block inlays.  

It needs the bound wooden pickguard, tho.   The tan plastic just looks so....  generic!   A 157 is about class.  😜

[brentrocks]

Thanks fellas!!!  This is a very special 157.  A great representation of what Heritage was capable of back then. 

[LK155]

Beauty, Brent.

Can't make out what the label has below 'Custom Made'.  Any idea what it says?

 

[brentrocks]

2 hours ago, LK155 said:

Beauty, Brent.

Can't make out what the label has below 'Custom Made'.  Any idea what it says?

 

I’m trying to contact the seller to see if maybe that was his brother‘s name underneath there? Whoever wrote those labels out in that era really needed to practice on their penmanship. Lol.

[brentrocks]

FIXED MY NUT 🥜 😂

 

FIXING THE NUT…on the 2006 Heritage H157 Custom Quilt!!! 

 

The D, G and B slots were VERY LOW!! 

 

Now, I could have paid someone $100 for a new nut job??? I could have done the ol superglue and baking soda fix??? I could have made a new nut myself (although it probably wouldn’t have been too pretty). 

 

NOPE.  I decided to use multiple layers of copper shielding tape to “jack up” the factory nut.  

 

There were two main reasons why this set up with this nut did not work for the Guitar… 1…Those three slots were too low and they were giving a little bit of buzz on the first Fret. 2….The trust rod needed to be tightened a little bit to straighten the neck out a little more and of course, if you do that that lowers the strings closer to the first Fret, so that certainly was not going to work with the way the nut was setting.  

 

So, shimming the nut up just a few thousands of an inch, was the least aggressive solution to the problem! 

 

And it worked perfectly, as I knew it would!  The guitar actually played pretty good as it was but now it is even better!  
 

AND I DID ALL THAT BEFORE 8am  😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

 

Edited 47 minutes ago by brentrocks