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I can't remember who built their jazz floater pickups before? Someone local to Kalamazoo? they sounded good. I think they were all Humbuckers? I don't think the Schaller pickup design would work as a floater, it's too deep. Maybe if you got rid of the cover & modded the baseplate.

Jim is still in the shop sometimes too!

Well it looks great. I know that building guitars can stir up the dust, but when I looked at pictures of the old shop before the new guard came in, it just looked gloomy and a safety nightmare. And it seems to me that the quality of the new guitars coming out of Heritage has improved. I have played quite a few of the new Heritages, and I've been impressed with all but one of them (a H530 that just wouldn't intonate and the aging was way over the top).The rest of the new ones that I've played had properly cut nuts and nice fretwork, whereas all of my "golden years" needed work in those areas. And I liked that the few H150s that I played were reasonable weight, surely not boat anchors. I'm sure Heritage lost a lot of their archtop building expertise, with the retirement of Marv and Ren, but hopefully, Pete can train some of the new guys and they can rebuild their archtop line.

Same here. I really was kind of afraid of the learning curve. But after my first experience, which was a Digitech GSP1101 and conquering my fear, I was able to start to undererstand it. Then I got the Helix and other Line 6 stuff. All of these things are capable of doing a shit ton more than I would ever know what to do with. I just wanted a simple pedalboard and it gives me that. Plus little by little, I have been able to do more and more. They are all pretty similar in the same way that most DAWs are similar, meaning if you understand one, the rest are fairly simple

The paint booth is a huge improvement over the old setup on the third floor. The air is filtered in so that there's no dust to settle on a wet finish. Guitars are hung to dry, and the safety is a big factor as the solvent vapors are kept to a minimum in the room. There is a lot less wood dust in the shop itself. They invested a good deal of money in the dust collector system. Wood dust can be a dangerous fire and explosion hazard.

Man, that Eagle that Rich plays the song on at the end of the video sounded unreal. Makes me want to learn a song in that style. It has just the right balance of string to wood in the tone WOW!

In watching that video I couldn't help but notice how clean the shop looks, and the paint booth looks great.

That’s Bill.

Probably not, the HRW was a Schaller humbucker that was completely reworked. However, just my thoughts anyway.

Wow !!!! These are so rad !!! Thats you in the pic? These black limba are nice !!! Like the 3 piece neck and the front H logo which was a transition for a short period !!

agree! and Bob & Bill, those are amazing H137's. You lucky SOB's!

I just snagged a mint Fulltone Fulldrive on Sweetwater gear sales page for $79 shipped. This replaces the 10th anniversary FD that Kuz sold me about 5 years ago, destroyed in the flood.

That’s awesome!

What I know about Jazz guitar playing could fit on the head of a needle, but I love watching those Rich Severson videos. He does great demos, and gets some great tones out of those jazz boxes!

I felt the same way. But this one is really easy to program and work with. I just don't see the point of going back to an analog setup. However, this does have an effects loop for the few pedals that this doesn't have. I have some inexpensive modulation pedals from Amazon that produce some really unique sounds. They only run about $35 each. But two of those gives me most of the functions of a good guitar synth pedal. And I can add them to any patch that I want. Fun stuff.

Yes he made a pair.

Some people just like the flexibility of having individual pedals that was my case before six months ago. I think I had probably about 10 Boss pedals or more all strung horizontally across on a peddle board . I just don’t like those all in one type of effect units they never are easy to use in my opinion.

I’ve got a feeling the Standard USA model line is going away and only Custom Cores will be USA made…

Remember when ordering a custom from Jay Wolfe, Graham asked my opinion on CNC vs hand carved / cut. All I had was a gut response based on internet chatter. We the end user /consumer of fine guitars know little about building vs manufacturing. We purchase and play. Pete's "wood therapy" displays the vast knowledge gap between the people who visit and work at 225 Parsons. RESPECT

Was that the H137 he did few years back?

Would really like to getta Pete farmer build one H150 or H157 ....perhaps someday !?

I have never used that GX-10 but having a zillion Boss FX for that price is great. I use Line 6 and Quad Cortex for FX and they are all great. I have messed with Headrush and Ampero and liked them too. Boss has to be great or they would be pushed out, given all of the great competition. Why anyone would spend $400 on a couple of Boss pedals when you can get the same pedals plus a shit ton more for the same price is beyond me. BTW, I like the music you are learning. It will be fun trying to cop those sounds. But you have the gear to pull it off!

Great picture and story! Thanks for sharing