Special Invitation To New Members

Wow, that one-piece top is drop dead gorgeous!  And your factory tour-de-force is appropriately named "Mabil". 

Play it in good health, and welcome to the HOC.

 
Thanks for the welcome! The top is crazy, Ive had nothing but compliments at gigs. That line on the front is lighting. The top is perfect.  

 
I just joined up, Hello to everyone,!

I have a 2011 Sweet 16, a 1999 H-575, and as of yesterday a 2006 H-535. 

I believe the '06 535 has Seth Lover pickups; after watching Rich Severson's  comparison of Seth Lovers and Schallers using 575's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mURVofPTnY), I'm convinced that I want the Schallers for this guitar.  I haven't found reference to which ones these may be - can anyone tell me, what model Schaller humbucker was used in Heritage guitars?  Are they Golden 50's?  

Are there any other opinions on other pickups that would give a more scooped tone than the Seth Lovers?  I have a Seth Lover in the Sweet 16, but in the 535 I find them to be more mid-y, honk-y than I would like.

Thanks very much!

 
Hi guys, thanks for the replies.  The seller of the 535 told me it had Seth Lovers, but I took one out today and to my surprise it was a Schaller.  Does that mean I like it now?

Gianluca, I live in Brighton also.  Except, Brighton, Michigan, USA.  The closest I've gotten to Brighton, UK is about 30,000 feet, but it was beautiful!

 
Hi all, my name is Bobby and I am actually a drummer but I'm also a lover of guitars. I have two sons that are musicians, one plays bass and theater is a guitar player. My reason for joining the club is because of my father. My dad passed in 2011 and left me all of his music gear. He was a guitar player and a quite accomplished one at that. He was also very instrumental in the Memphis music scene throughout the 60's & 70's. He was in the crowd from Memphis that consisted of Sam Phillips, Jim Dickinson, Don Nix, Larry Nix, Terry Manning, Chips Moman, John Fry, Willie Mitchell and so many others.I had a quite unique childhood to say the least. One of my dad's closet friends though was Johnny Smith. Some of you are probably familiar with Johnny, he played guitar for Bing Crosby but was most noted for his jazz guitar albums. My dad has a Gibson "Johnny Smith Model" from 1968. He also owns one of Johnny's personal Heritage "Johnny Smith" models and a custom made Emrad Johnny Smith amp, that was built personally for Johnny . I was trying to research serial# info on it and I came across this site. The serial # on the Heritage is 199304001. Does this mean it was made in April of 93 and it's the first model?  I have pics of everything I listed but they're too large to attach here so I lowered the quality on one of the pics and it should be below.  Even though I'm a drummer, I'm a huge fan of guitars and I view them as works of art. I can play a little guitar but I am by no means a guitarist. (LOL) Thanks for letting me blab...

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Welcome aboard. Great history of your Father. That serial number doesn’t look correct.  Is there a label inside one of the the f-holes?
Heritage usually puts number on back of headstock also. 
That is a Special Model.  
Are you selling it?

 
BIreland13 said:
Hi all, my name is Bobby and I am actually a drummer but I'm also a lover of guitars. I have two sons that are musicians, one plays bass and theater is a guitar player. My reason for joining the club is because of my father. My dad passed in 2011 and left me all of his music gear. He was a guitar player and a quite accomplished one at that. He was also very instrumental in the Memphis music scene throughout the 60's & 70's. He was in the crowd from Memphis that consisted of Sam Phillips, Jim Dickinson, Don Nix, Larry Nix, Terry Manning, Chips Moman, John Fry, Willie Mitchell and so many others.I had a quite unique childhood to say the least. One of my dad's closet friends though was Johnny Smith. Some of you are probably familiar with Johnny, he played guitar for Bing Crosby but was most noted for his jazz guitar albums. My dad has a Gibson "Johnny Smith Model" from 1968. He also owns one of Johnny's personal Heritage "Johnny Smith" models and a custom made Emrad Johnny Smith amp, that was built personally for Johnny . I was trying to research serial# info on it and I came across this site. The serial # on the Heritage is 199304001. Does this mean it was made in April of 93 and it's the first model?  I have pics of everything I listed but they're too large to attach here so I lowered the quality on one of the pics and it should be below.  Even though I'm a drummer, I'm a huge fan of guitars and I view them as works of art. I can play a little guitar but I am by no means a guitarist. (LOL) Thanks for letting me blab...

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Welcome to the HOC, Bobby.  Thanks for sharing your Dad's very interesting history as well as his association with the master, Johnny Smith.  As Skydog52 mentioned above, check for more details on the JS inside label as well as the rear of the headstock.

Here's an old ad mentioning the Emrad Johnny Smith Amp.  Those 100 beasts came with a JBL speaker.  Must have been one loud tone monster.

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