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I may be mistaken, but here is what I remember/assumptions: Mahogany Body with a Strat-like body Bolt-On Maple Neck Banana Headstock Bill Lawerence Humbucker Bridge Pickup Single Volume Control Only 24.75" Scale Maple Fretboard Fixed Tele-like bridge Some weird fuzzy like paint finish. Does that sound about right? I believe this is bare-bones student model like guitar. My guess is this developed from the short-lived idea of Heritage building Fender guitars.

My guess is the Custom Shop Bespoke program and Custom Core line need the capacity to keep up with demand....

You just demonstrated the difference between a CPA and MBA (Me Being Amusing) =MBA

That analogy is not completely accurate! As I said, I am not the bean counter for Heritage, but I would be willing to bet that their CC sales are less than 10% of their total sales. Now in terms of revenue, yes, they realize a larger profit margin % with the CC line. But think about all the international sales they do each month, and I am pretty sure they are mostly from the standard lineup. If you beg to differ, lets hear it!!

Cause you can sell buttered bread for more that the ingredients alone. Take coffee: A bag of beans is $6 for 10 ounces. Add hot waters and you can sell it for $5 for 12 ounces of mostly water. If you can make 30 cups out of 10 oz of beans that's $150 from a $6 investment.

Thanks for the hundreds of suggestions peeps, ya'll are awesome, which is why I am on here so much! 🤷‍♀️

I would have to disagree and say that if they did that, it would be the dumbest marketing move they could possibly make! Why get rid of your bread and butter? Granted, the Standard line is not cheap anymore, but the CC line is stratospheric in price! I think having an Asian line, an affordable USA Standard line and the CC (for the snobs, just kidding of course) is the right direction to go in. But hey, I am not the bean counter for Heritage, so I know nuttin.

I found the Heritage to be a little muddy/midrange certainly not bat sounding but not too my taste. The Lollar is fuller and more rounded. It also will let you have some harmonics if you increase your pick attack which is great for Billy and old school rock. it was not a direct replacement but was not at all difficult to install.

I would love to check out a Heritage floater but they are not on their web site. Is there a way to get one? I have an L5 custom that has a Johnny Smith floater on it. It is not bad but I would love to see what the heritage folks have designed and try one out.

A very nice one!

Hmm. That's really interesting. How would you describe the tone? Did it slide into the pickguard mount like the Floating #3?

I replaced the floater on my sweet 16 with a lollar gold foil floater. Would definitely recommend it.

I believe Ken made 3 versions, the large majority being Floating #3. Ken Armstrong would rebuild these to a higher output for about $100. I have what's probably a unique one rebuilt as a single coil by one of the current Heritage team. People bad mouthed the Floating #3 a lot. I firmly believe much of the criticism came from the urge to guild the lilly. The #3 is an excellent low output humbucker. It is very clean, almost acoustic sounding.

Ken Rambo made the first floaters Heritage used. There were 2 or 3 different pickups designated by stickers on the bottom. Heritage floating pickups are now made in house and they are Fab.

I reached out to Ren. He said they never were used as floaters.

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 !!