Special Invitation To New Members

Gitfiddler said:
A big shout out to all of you HOC members that lurk in the background but don't post much!

You know who you are!  But we don't.  :)

The sole purpose of this thread is to send out a special HELLO!  And to ask if you'll drop in and say something about you or your Heritage guitar.  Consider this a kind of online HOC meet and greet...or even a Heritage-Aholic group hug.

OK, I'll start..."Hi, my name is Tim, but my friends here call me Gitfiddler.  My favorite Heritages are (in no particular order):  Sweet 16, Golden Eagle, H-555, H-150 and of course the H-157.  I'd love to own a Millenium, but cannot spell it or afford one yet.  :rolleyes:

Alright guys and gals, YOUR TURN!

Who are you...and tell us something about you and your favorite Heritages!  Let's see how many newbies or oldies will say HELLO!  8)
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L.V. here - lvjmusic on this and many other forums :)

Playing guitar since I was barely in my teens and have never been able to find a cure for G.A.S but marriage did slow down the onset as it can be particularly distressful to the bank account.

Currently proud owner of several of the early solid body models. I have two of the STAT models - one was 'bmg' stamped at the factory and arrived in my music store from the Heritage rep back in 1990 with a H U G E (and ugly) Schaller boat anchor for a bridge. It was a good guitar in most other ways so I added PJ Marx pups. Roland hex pickup and controller and Kahler top-load bridge. This is now one sweet ride. The second one I got on eBay several years ago and is stock in all ways. A previous owner tried to add a pickguard to it (!) and left remnants of the screw holes on the top. :(

I also have a bolt on VIP-1 (eBay) and an H140 goldtop (direct from Kalamazoo). The STATS are my main go to guitars but don't use the Roland rig much anymore and the VIP is a great single pick up axxe for just sitting and picking.

Ages and details are in my sig below. Happy pickin'!

LV

 
lvjmusic said:
L.V. here - lvjmusic on this and many other forums :)

Playing guitar since I was barely in my teens and have never been able to find a cure for G.A.S but marriage did slow down the onset as it can be particularly distressful to the bank account.

Currently proud owner of several of the early solid body models. I have two of the STAT models - one was 'bmg' stamped at the factory and arrived in my music store from the Heritage rep back in 1990 with a H U G E (and ugly) Schaller boat anchor for a bridge. It was a good guitar in most other ways so I added PJ Marx pups. Roland hex pickup and controller and Kahler top-load bridge. This is now one sweet ride. The second one I got on eBay several years ago and is stock in all ways. A previous owner tried to add a pickguard to it (!) and left remnants of the screw holes on the top. :(

I also have a bolt on VIP-1 (eBay) and an H140 goldtop (direct from Kalamazoo). The STATS are my main go to guitars but don't use the Roland rig much anymore and the VIP is a great single pick up axxe for just sitting and picking.

Ages and details are in my sig below. Happy pickin'!

LV
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Welcome LV. I have a Stat Dlx, which was my first Heritage guitar, and I love it.

 
Hi, my name is Gert, living in Denmark, the little country i Scandinavia some people think is the capital of Sweden. Well, we are not, actually the capital of Denmark is Copenhagen. This is my first experience with HOC, I just joined today. My first experience with a Heritage was the 150 model(Les Paul type). I stupidly sold it and regret it almost every day. Yesterday I bought a used Prospect std made in 1994. It has been stored in the guitarcase for some years, with full tension on the strings, but it is in good shape. Good player and nice sound comming out of my Laney combo. It has been broken where the head meets the neck, but it has been this way for several years, so I guess it will last. No problem with staying in tune, so the guy that glued it must have known what he was doing.

I would like to know what kind of pickups are in this particular guitar, they must be the originals, but I can't find anything about this on the Heritage webside. I will start with searching HOC for info about this, but feel free to contribute if you have information. I could, off course, pull them out of the guitar to see if there is any information there, but I'll start here first.

Also, I would like to know if there could be any improvement to change the Schaller tailpiece and the rollerbridge to another type or brand. Any comments will be welcome, thanks.

Well, that's all for now, folks, thanks for reading.

GertCarl

 
Gertcarl said:
Hi, my name is Gert, living in Denmark, the little country i Scandinavia some people think is the capital of Sweden. Well, we are not, actually the capital of Denmark is Copenhagen. This is my first experience with HOC, I just joined today. My first experience with a Heritage was the 150 model(Les Paul type). I stupidly sold it and regret it almost every day. Yesterday I bought a used Prospect std made in 1994. It has been stored in the guitarcase for some years, with full tension on the strings, but it is in good shape. Good player and nice sound comming out of my Laney combo. It has been broken where the head meets the neck, but it has been this way for several years, so I guess it will last. No problem with staying in tune, so the guy that glued it must have known what he was doing.

I would like to know what kind of pickups are in this particular guitar, they must be the originals, but I can't find anything about this on the Heritage webside. I will start with searching HOC for info about this, but feel free to contribute if you have information. I could, off course, pull them out of the guitar to see if there is any information there, but I'll start here first.

Also, I would like to know if there could be any improvement to change the Schaller tailpiece and the rollerbridge to another type or brand. Any comments will be welcome, thanks.

Well, that's all for now, folks, thanks for reading.

GertCarl
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Welcome to the club , Gert.

It is likely that your Prospect has Schaller pickups ( these would have two screws on each side of the pickup) , but posting a photo of your guitar may help us identify the pickups. If your pickup selector switch has a "dot " on the end of the plastic part ,then you have HRW pickups.

You are right that a good headstock repair is very strong and should not give you any problems.

Opinions about the hardware vary, it has certainly been discussed here before.

Enjoy your Prospect, those are great guitars.

 
FredZepp said:
Welcome to the club , Gert.

It is likely that your Prospect has Schaller pickups ( these would have two screws on each side of the pickup) , but posting a photo of your guitar may help us identify the pickups. If your pickup selector switch has a "dot " on the end of the plastic part ,then you have HRW pickups.

You are right that a good headstock repair is very strong and should not give you any problems.

Opinions about the hardware vary, it has certainly been discussed here before.

Enjoy your Prospect, those are great guitars.
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Thank's for the reply FredZepp. The pickups have two screws, so it must be Schallers. I am not sure I will change them, time will show. Thank's for the info. Also there is no dot, so no HRW. And, just for the record, I realy like the Heritage guitars, very fine instruments. Actually I have 11 guitars at the moment, but I am not that skilled I can play more than one at the time, including two Finnish guitars made by Juha Ruokanges, ruokangas.com. These are also very fine instruments, so I guess I am a lucky guy.

Gert

 
kirkw101 here, and most other places as well. I live in Texas and work for the man. married almost 16 years and have 4 kids. The current guitars are a classic vibe tele, godin kinpin II and a Huss and Dalton TDR. The Hussy is actually about to be traded for a Kristofferson SJ. Oh I'm waiting on delivery of what is reported as a 1st run H137.

I play blues and my own stuff mostly. Some sing along kinda stuff too if I am playing for people. I like to write my own stuff and I have a page on soundclick.com if you get real bored and wanna check it out.

kirk

 
lvjmusic said:
L.V. here - lvjmusic on this and many other forums :)

Playing guitar since I was barely in my teens and have never been able to find a cure for G.A.S but marriage did slow down the onset as it can be particularly distressful to the bank account.

Currently proud owner of several of the early solid body models. I have two of the STAT models - one was 'bmg' stamped at the factory and arrived in my music store from the Heritage rep back in 1990 with a H U G E (and ugly) Schaller boat anchor for a bridge. It was a good guitar in most other ways so I added PJ Marx pups. Roland hex pickup and controller and Kahler top-load bridge. This is now one sweet ride. The second one I got on eBay several years ago and is stock in all ways. A previous owner tried to add a pickguard to it (!) and left remnants of the screw holes on the top. :(

I also have a bolt on VIP-1 (eBay) and an H140 goldtop (direct from Kalamazoo). The STATS are my main go to guitars but don't use the Roland rig much anymore and the VIP is a great single pick up axxe for just sitting and picking.

Ages and details are in my sig below. Happy pickin'!

LV
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LV

Welcome aboard from a fellow Stat owner.

Dave

 
Hello folks,

My name is Sam. I'm from Spain but I live in South Bend (Indiana). Since I came to the United States, I've bought two Heritage. The first one was a 2000 black translucent H170CM. The second one was a 1989 Flat Top Acoustic. In Spain, I didn't know about Heritage, but after moving here I started to look for the best handcrafted guitars. I read about the vintage Hamer, PRS, Tom Anderson, etc. Finally, I got the H170 and I couldn't stop playing it. It's so sweet. I really like the ebony fingerboard. I play most of the time unplugged, because most of the time I'm at home taking home of 8 month baby, and I enjoy so much the acoustic of the H170. It makes umplification almost useless!

My next guitar will be a semi-hollow or hollow body (with ebony fingerboard!).

Thanks for reading my post and I hope you enjoy the pictures. Best,

Sam

https://picasaweb.google.com/acronias/Heritage170CM?authkey=Gv1sRgCLeh0c_hhsbTYQ

https://picasaweb.google.com/acronias/HFT?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLm1_7u1d7KcQ

 
Acronia said:
Hello folks,

My name is Sam. I'm from Spain but I live in South Bend (Indiana). Since I came to the United States, I've bought two Heritage. The first one was a 2000 black translucent H170CM. The second one was a 1989 Flat Top Acoustic. In Spain, I didn't know about Heritage, but after moving here I started to look for the best handcrafted guitars. I read about the vintage Hamer, PRS, Tom Anderson, etc. Finally, I got the H170 and I couldn't stop playing it. It's so sweet. I really like the ebony fingerboard. I play most of the time unplugged, because most of the time I'm at home taking home of 8 month baby, and I enjoy so much the acoustic of the H170. It makes umplification almost useless!

My next guitar will be a semi-hollow or hollow body (with ebony fingerboard!).

Thanks for reading my post and I hope you enjoy the pictures. Best,

Sam

https://picasaweb.google.com/acronias/Heritage170CM?authkey=Gv1sRgCLeh0c_hhsbTYQ

https://picasaweb.google.com/acronias/HFT?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLm1_7u1d7KcQ
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Welcome to the club... great guitars.
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Hello to all! My name is fullonshred. I just recently joined this lovely forum. My lone Heritage Guitar is an Original Sunburst H170cm. She was the 2nd guitar born on June 8th, of 1986 in the mystical Halls of 225 Parsons Street, Kalamazoo Michigan. I purchased her brand new from my local music store, took her home with me and we have been together ever since. She is still in beautiful shape, still plays, looks and sounds just great. I have never considered parting with her for even the briefest of moments. I plan to love her until I die.

 
fullonshred said:
Hello to all! My name is fullonshred. I just recently joined this lovely forum. My lone Heritage Guitar is an Original Sunburst H170cm. She was the 2nd guitar born on June 8th, of 1986 in the mystical Halls of 225 Parsons Street, Kalamazoo Michigan. I purchased her brand new from my local music store, took her home with me and we have been together ever since. She is still in beautiful shape, still plays, looks and sounds just great. I have never considered parting with her for even the briefest of moments. I plan to love her until I die.
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Wow, that's awesome!

Have any pictures to share?

 
fullonshred said:
Hello to all! My name is fullonshred. I just recently joined this lovely forum. My lone Heritage Guitar is an Original Sunburst H170cm. She was the 2nd guitar born on June 8th, of 1986 in the mystical Halls of 225 Parsons Street, Kalamazoo Michigan. I purchased her brand new from my local music store, took her home with me and we have been together ever since. She is still in beautiful shape, still plays, looks and sounds just great. I have never considered parting with her for even the briefest of moments. I plan to love her until I die.
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Welcome to the club, sounds like you have a true piece of Parsons St history.

 
Thank you folks for the kind welcome. Kbp810, I hope to take some decent pictures of her soon. I need to shine her up real purty, put on some new strings (I have been playing a good bit lately), find a nice background, good lighting and take some cheesecake photos of her. Her top is nowhere near as lovely as some of the supermodels I have seen on this forum (many stunning guitars to be seen here), but she is beautiful to me and I plan to own her until I die, at which point she will be passed on to a family member with stern instructions including threat of haunting, that she is never to leave the family.

 
FredZepp said:
Awesome Heritage there, Hammertone.

I believe that is an acoustic Super Eagle? ... In any case, beautiful guitar.
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Thanks. Yes, Super Eagle.

It has an acoustic pickguard as well as an electric pickguard w/floating pickup.

I just play it acoustically - it sounds quite nice.

My understanding is that there aren't too many of these done up as acoustics.

This one was part of a group ordered by Stan Jay in the mid-'90s.

I've seen a photo of another one on Joe Vinikow's site.

 
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Hi,

My name is Yuushou. I live in Japan. HN is bluebird44(bb44).

Lately, I up-loaded guitar pics of my Gerry Gessie Little One to your members gallery.

My Little One has the Maple neck, Maple body and rosewood fingerboard. Good feeling!

I will take him to travel and play anywhere.

He will take me to Kalamazoo some time:).

Thanks,

bb44

 
bluebird44 said:
Hi,

My name is Yuushou. I live in Japan. HN is bluebird44(bb44).

Lately, I up-loaded guitar pics of my Gerry Gessie Little One to your members gallery.

My Little One has the Maple neck, Maple body and rosewood fingerboard. Good feeling!

I will take him to travel and play anywhere.

He will take me to Kalamazoo some time:).

Thanks,

bb44
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Welcome to the club ..

Great looking guitar there....

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