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My DR tone master has a built in attenuator goes from 1 watt to full power. Works great and no need for an outboard unit.

I strongly agree with your friend. The Throbak '52/'54 set are nearly as loud as Lollars, but have more character, gritty & grind, while still sounding like that single coil P90 tone.

He's a gene pool boy, for sure

Whatever the gene pool, that kid can sing!

I don't know that they are related, although there appears to be some resemblance. The person in the David Paul Band appears to be about 25 or 30. I found an article some time back that said his pregnant wife was killed in an accident in 2014. He moved to West Virginia a few years later. https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/lifestyle/2017/01/22/guitarists-fingers-singing-agai/44616269/ The "Heritage" David Paul has a Linked In Page that says he attended Rutgers from 1978 to 1982. Another site says he was born in 1956, so he would be almost 70. He could easily have a son in his 30s. Of course, you could always contact the David Paul Band fellow and ask him if they are related.

Third party validation is good. Last night at the gig, someone who had seen us play before asked me if the guitar was new. She said it sounded different and really good. Nice to hear that the improvement wasn't just in my head. It feels like a fuller tone with more gravity, if that makes sense. Definitely no bends though. It is limiting in that way. Slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs only.

Here's David and his guitar many years ago. He's disappered as best I can tell. I've Googled him for years. Here he is. Study his face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAwGG2MY-kg This has to be his son or he has a time machine. This is from less than a year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrrZ8tGvWXE

wild! 1. the car looks too small in scale compared to the road 2. who the hell would park a car on the left side of a highway like that 3. and the shadow under the car looks fake!! maybe there's some photoshop wizardry going on. PS was around back then thanks for digging up the source though! nice detective work

Aye!

Lovely, simply lovely!

Additional pictures. The pic on the cart of my unfinished H170 seems to have a Marvbird in the background.

Throbaks in an H170, of course. From 2014.

My friend Troy has that '52/54' set in his '56 Goldtop reissue. He went through the stock pickups, Lollars, Tyson Tone Labs, and then the Throbaks. He LOVES them, and that is his number one gigging guitar along with his ES330 reissue. He plays that guitar straight into a 1959 5E3 and his sound is perfect for his blues band. He has some great sounding humbucker reisses (two particularly sounding good sounding R9s), and a 1964 SG Jr, but he favors that Goldtop with the Throbaks the most. When he was going through those sets though, I LOVED the Tyson Tone Labs, but he said they were a bit too high in output for him. In my R4 and my Special I like the stock Gibson pickups, they just sound too good for me to replace them. I wish I could use P90s more, but they just make too much noise for when I'm recording by a monitor.

Quite a few scenes in that movie have vanishing points. Some of the scenes the action is moving toward the vanishing point and some scenes the action is arriving from the vanishing point. vanishing-point-1971.avif vanishing-point-1971.avif

Thanks!!😄

I love this guitar very much. Heritage's craftsmanship is really great. Thank you for listening.

Thank you for listening. Jazz is great so I`ll train more! Thank you.

Indeed sweet !!! Nice picture !! I wonder does the earlier Heritage anniversarys H150 were built by Marvin too? Or he just supervise ?

😂 Terminator was definitely a different breed! Especially for Heritage.

I know someone who came from a distance to be there when Marv carved the neck of his new guitar. They had a conversation going about how much more to take off until it was just right. That was a Florentine GE. The customer sent some of the hardware he wanted used plus the billets for the spruce top. Amazing results in the end.

I almost poked my eye out just looking at it! I'm scared of pointy guitars. 😱

I can actually bend up an octave if I use 8s. As far as strings on a jazz guitar. I have found that using big ass strings gives a certain fluidity to my lines. I have them on my L5 and my 576. I don't bend on those guitars. I did some stuff with Albert King and that man had some big strings and he could bend the shit out of them. Stevie Vaughn could all bend big strings. I can't. I have guitars that I bend on, usually with 9s and guitars that I don't.

Let me fix what I said. I bend up a whole step not an octave! I would love to be able to bend up an octave but…….

When i wanted to experiment with a heavier gauge to get a bigger sound on my SKB, i intended to go from 12s to 13s. But Thomastik doesn’t make a 13 in the GB line. So i skipped to 14s. Had them on my SKB now for a few years. I would have stuck with 12s on the 550 but didn’t have any left in the house. It was an adjustment at first- definitely, but once i got used to it, it was not a big deal. Going from one guitar strung with 12 to another with 14 you can feel it for sure, but it just takes a minute to remind yourself to give it a little extra oomph all around. On the other side- i tried heavier gauges on my Martin 000-18 and didn’t really like it. I found it much harder to get what i wanted out of heavy gauge on acoustic.

A couple years ago, I bought a used Collings 290 wraptail from Willcutt Guitars and got a KILLER deal on it. Before I bought it, I asked the store manager (Eric, who is also a good pal of mine) what P-90s are in the guitar. He said that he thought they were Lollar P90s but wasn't exactly sure because it was a used guitar, but he said that what ever P90s are in it I won't want to change them because they sound incredible. The guitar was mint and it was such a good price that I didn't push the issue. I got it home and played it, and they did sound incredible! Well, I changed the stings and looked under the covers.... the guitar came with Throbak '52/'54 P90s!!! My killer deal got EVAN BETTER!!! So yes, I have Throbaks in my Collings 290 wraptail.