'05 H150 20th Anniversary - Pro-fusion's

--it's much lighter than my 157; I'd say about 9 lbs. One-piece mahogany body with very open grain--gotta be Honduran.

--much sweeter-sounding than the 157; they are incredibly different.

--the Air Norton in the bridge was installed backwards, I guess to warm it up. That wasn't necessary, since the guitar still has a sweet crunch when I turned the pickup around. It immediately gave off a "Sweet Child 'O Mine" vibe on a hot Marshall patch on my Axe-FX. I kind of like the Air Norton, actually, and am going to live with it for awhile before I decide whether go the boutique route. The Tone Zone in the neck has gotta go, though. Totally wrong for this guitar.

--The fretboard probably isn't Brazilian, but it sure is nice and dark colored.

--The guitar probably had Duncan Antiquities originally, since those are listed as stock in the catalog and the back-plate sticker doesn't list the pickups.

--I don't know if it's factory, but it has vintage-type capacitors installed. RS Guitarworks? I don't know. My 157 certainly doesn't have this.

--The only thing I'm not sure about, oddly enough, are the Sperzel tuners. Their motion isn't as smooth as I'd expected.

All in all, I'm pleased. I was having guilt pangs for the last couple of days, thinking I'd pulled a Nigel Tufnel and gotten two of essentially the same thing for no good reason. But now that I've had a chance to fire up the rig, I realize that this 150 and 157 are much different flavors of "sonic ice cream" that are both very useful tools for me. And I have to laugh thinking about how much the Nashville gang would charge you for an LP Standard of the quality of this 150, assuming you could even get one.