steveomatic Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 For all interested here is my 1994 Roy Clark Custom I picked up a couple weeks ago. I absolutely love it! I do have a question for all of you Heritage experts out there. What makes this a "Custom, Roy Clark" all the others I have seen on the web have the Roy Clark signature on the Headstock. Mine has the "Custom" on the Headstock. Is this just the way it looked back in 1994 or is mine different? FYI: I changed out the Tuners for TonePros Locking Tuners. Thanks for all the feedback. Steve. http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/1.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/2.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/3.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/4.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/5.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/6.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/7.jpg[/img] http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/steveacaster/8-1.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnH555 Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Nice guitar, Steve. Brentrocks used to have one, maybe he'll know what's "custom" about yours. Anything extra written on the label ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111518 Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Steve: The headstock binding and inlay look like a 550. The catalog description for the Roy Clark says single bound with the signature, and most are finished like the body ala. the 576 headstocks. The catalog also says single bound neck, and yours appears to be multibound. Is your neck maple (standard is mahogany) and what is the scale (standard is 24 3/4)? Maybe you have a Roy Clark ordered with a 550 style neck and headstock? Fascinating all the different combinations of features that turn up on Heritage Guitars. Cool instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentrocks Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 that is a nice guitar man! my old Roy did not have any MOP on the head and had his silkscreen sig on the head. it did have block inlays though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heririck Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Steve- Would yours play and sound like a 555? That is awful pretty! I must get a better job. I must have more guitars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentrocks Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Steve- Would yours play and sound like a 555? That is awful pretty! I must get a better job. I must have more guitars! it was very simmilar to a 555...awesome neck!!! thin!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuz Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 For all interested here is my 1994 Roy Clark Custom I picked up a couple weeks ago. I absolutely love it! I do have a question for all of you Heritage experts out there. What makes this a "Custom, Roy Clark" all the others I have seen on the web have the Roy Clark signature on the Headstock. Mine has the "Custom" on the Headstock. Is this just the way it looked back in 1994 or is mine different? FYI: I changed out the Tuners for TonePros Locking Tuners. Thanks for all the feedback. Steve. Easy. Yours comes with Roy's licks. They begin to appear after 1.5 million hours of playing. My wife got me Roy Clark tickets about 10 years ago and I was so bummed and not looking forward to a 2hr performance of He-Haw. After the show I saw him totally amaze on Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, and Fiddle. The dude is the real deal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoslate Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Easy. Yours comes with Roy's licks. They begin to appear after 1.5 million hours of playing. The dude is the real deal! Don't recall any details, but you guys are good at dredging stuff up from god knows where.... She was kind of rockabilly, but rock-and-roll enough...maybe early sixties? Wanda Jackson! Find some of her stuff. Roy Clark is all over her records, on guitar. Think Cliff Gallup and Eddie Cochran...but better!!! He's phenomenal!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Bird Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 That's a nice one. I saw a video of a very young Roy Clark and he had just played the dog doo out of a guitar. He said, "When you got it you got it, and they tell me I am full of it!" ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Seacup Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Don't recall any details, but you guys are good at dredging stuff up from god knows where.... She was kind of rockabilly, but rock-and-roll enough...maybe early sixties? Wanda Jackson! Find some of her stuff. Roy Clark is all over her records, on guitar. Think Cliff Gallup and Eddie Cochran...but better!!! He's phenomenal!!! When I think of Roy Clark, I think of Hee Haw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111518 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 There was a question about Roy Clark in the "ask zac (Childs --a guitar tech in Nashville)" column in the most recent Vintage Guitar (May 09, p. 20.) He recommends "The Lightening Fingers of Roy Clark," and also, though out of print, "Makin' Music," the album Clark did with Gatemouth Brown. I remember as a kid watching Arthur Smith (Guitar Boogie) on TV followed by Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw; that was Saturday night. It was hard to see what great musicians either Clark or Buck Owens/Buckaroos were, the show was so drenched in corn (literally and figuratively), but maybe watching those shows then has something to do with my growing appreciation of 50s/60s country music now. Don't usually admit it, but I started out on banjo ... and I kept up enough chops to play a tune or two (including "Going Up Cripple Creek") as long as I worked in guitar shops. Had to sell those stinkin' banjos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoslate Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 I remember as a kid watching Arthur Smith (Guitar Boogie).... "Arthur Smith and the Crackerjacks" Another trip down Memory Lane! Thanks, again, for another blast from the past, Larry. Arthur was a phenomenal player in the Chet vein. He was an owner of Reflections Studios in Charlotte, a studio which goes back, I don't know how far. Reflections was a great place to hang out! All kinds of music going on there, with great players, mostly "unknowns," shuffling through all of the time. Most of those guys were "Country" and gospel musicians from backwaters all over the South. Reflections was kind of a AAA version of RCA, in Nashville. But then bands like R.E.M. discovered the place through work with an engineer/producer/musician named Don Dixon, who was on the staff there. Really a cool, progressive place, due largely to the vibe generated by Arthur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shook494 Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 For all interested here is my 1994 Roy Clark Custom I picked up a couple weeks ago. I absolutely love it! I do have a question for all of you Heritage experts out there. What makes this a "Custom, Roy Clark" all the others I have seen on the web have the Roy Clark signature on the Headstock. Mine has the "Custom" on the Headstock. Is this just the way it looked back in 1994 or is mine different? FYI: I changed out the Tuners for TonePros Locking Tuners. Thanks for all the feedback. Steve. WOW!! That is one pretty guitar! Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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