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Per Arnie Helinski, it was a bit of both. The neck was originally supposed to be for a custom Roy Clark but something didn't meet the original customer's spec and it wound up just sitting on the shelf being "too nice to scrap". When the PSP giveaway was being discussed that year, Arnie suggested using that five piece neck on the giveaway guitar and Marv et al agreed. I'm glad they made that decision. 😁

Great, great post OP!!!! I own 5 LP guitars, I am very new to guitar playing, but being an architect I absolutely go bananas for the look and design of the Les Paul. It just makes you want to pick it up and play it!!.....even if you are a newby like myself. So I have five, lol....2 Gibson (Classic & Slash November Burst) and 3 Heritage H150's....'14,'22,'23. My Gibson Slash is an absolute dream to play, everything in that guitar is just perfect (I think I got lucky with that guitar, I spent 4 hours at Gibson Garage looking at LP 50's & 60's and they all sucked, until they brought me this one. It took me 5 minutes to know that it was it!!! Having said that, it being a Gibson...something had to be wrong. The finish on the guitar started to "check/crack" on me on the oddest of places AND the finish was super sensitive to scratching. Took it to Gibson repair and they washed their hands, blaming me for the issue, mind you I bought it in April '24 and by June it was already doing this. I baby my guitars, so it really pissed me off that Gibson would blame me. So I will never buy a Gibson guitar and will only buy Heritage!!!! Once I get better, I plan on taking a trip to the holly land in Michigan and picking myself up a 150 Custom!! Side note, for decades, my wife has had an obsession with purses (Gucci, Channel, LV, etc....) for years I gave her shit, after finding my passion in guitar playing and specifically in Les Paul models........I don't say a word to her about her purses anymore, lol!!! As a matter of fact I encourage her to pursue her happiness because every time she buys a new purse, it gives me the excuse to buy another Heritage!! 😂 Sorry for going on a tangent post!!🙂

I remember some years back when the 59/JB was supposed to be the hot combo. The JB is a hot pickup so it can give some punch, the 59 is more of your conventional PAF. Those things change every year. It's like the latest viral cat video.

Try a Carr Rambler. All the headroom you could want in a 1 x 12 package. Swap the speaker out for a Neo and it carves a fair bit off the already reasonable sub 40# weight. I have a 1 x 12 Victoria Ivy League that is exceptionally light. It uses 6V6 tubes but is still loud as hell prior to breakup. It's not equipped with all the bells and whistles that he Accomplice is, but makes for a great pedal platform if you want to add 'Verb and Trem.

You guys need to try the new '284 pickups. They're like '59's and '225's combined!

🤣 I bet it is exceptionally well made though! "Well made amps for well hung guitar players"

Short of buying a Custom Core model, the only place you can get the 225s is via the second hand market. There just happens to be a set here on the HOC. I'm not big into changing pickups, although I've changed them in my H140 and 535. I have a pair of gold Seth Lovers on the shelf that I was going to put in my H157, but the legs are too long for the rout, and I'm not going to butcher the wood to install them. The Schallers are short leg, and the Seths are long leg. I've got Seth Loves in my Millennium LE, so I can always play that one.

I wish I had a pick holder that magically snapped up all the picks that fly out of my fingers, while playing. I had a pet gecko lizard once, they're pretty quick maybe I could train one. And let him live in my pedalboard.