Recent content by MartyGrass

I found a photo of David at Heritage.  Also, here's another of his tunes on the blue Heritage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTvYP5SYBY Also, I read an old HOC thread that purported the guitar to weigh 16 lbs.  I put mine on two scales.  Both showed a little less than 9.5 lbs.  I have a...

For those not familiar, Heritage made an artist model designed by David Paul.  This is a H-550 that is 2" deep and has a Bigsby and full center block.  Some were cherry but most were blue. I got one a few months ago.  Yesterday I pulled one of the pickups to make sure they were HRWs.  I tried...

As I understand it, there was concern about the neck pocket stability.  Gibson electric hollowbodies joined at the 16th fret in the 1950s.  At least the ES-150, 295 and 350 as I recall.  So that was the hollowbody norm. The ES-335 premiered in 1958.  The ES-330 came out a year later. Here is...

Here's a couple of choices in pickguards.

For those who don't know, Scotty Moore was Elvis's main guitarist for a very long time.  He also was a studio musician and an extraordinary player.  Here is a page from his website about his friend and fellow musician Don Dean. http://scottymoore.net/dondean.html Some years ago a friend of...

This is a small issue that happened back then a lot and is annoying.  The tuners aren't straight.  It is not hard to mount them correctly.  You start with the lower two.  Put the tuners in and place a block or a straight edge on the top edge of the tuners to assure they are lined up.  Then drill...

This is a H-530 with humbuckers and some special ornamentation.