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After catching Heritage fever last fall I finally pulled the trigger on this brand new Custom Core H-530. It was built on the 10th January, 2025 so it still thinks it's a tree! I owned a couple of 535's in the late 90's so I've known about Heritage for a while. After spending the last 20 years playing fingerstyle acoustic blues I got the electric bug again. As you all know, this is a special guitar and I'm a lucky man to own it.

It doesn't matter if they offered it. They would get changed anyway. I have realized that it doesn't matter what the factory uses. If they use SD, they get swapped for Dimarzios. If they use Dimarzio, they get swapped for Lollars, IF an amp company uses JJs, they get swapped for TungSols. If it came with TungSols, then it really needs TADs. If it has a Jensen speaker, it really should have a Celestion. If it has a Celestion, it gets swapped for an Eminence or Warehouse. Heck if it has GHS strings, it really should have D'Addarios or Ernie Balls. Mojotone makes the P90 that Josh had them put in the HOC 137. They sounded pretty darn good. It's a pain in the butt to change pickups in a semi or hollow body, but it can be done with a bit of patience.

That would be two or three different questions. Define "better" {Play, Feel, Sound, Looks, Status or ability hold its tuning, not finish crack be perfect from the factory or?} "Hold its value" has been a subject here since the beginning. A Gibson will {almost always} have a higher resale value than a 150 but if it starts at twice the original cost or more do the math. A $15,000 Les Paul could depreciate 33% when you leave the store but it's now worth $10,000 and lost more than the total cost new of a CC150. Looking at the sale price of a used CC150 on this forum (a premium market for Heritage guitars) and a $4,500 CC150 goes for what? $3,000? It lost 33% of its value or $1,500 the cost of an Epiphone. What is the lost investment value of the $10,500 never spent on the Gibson over the period of time until it's sold (if ever) minus the $7,000 more in resale value for the Gibson. Then again, some people pay a premium price for a luxury brand because, they are "worth it"

That is one of the classiest looking colors I have ever seen on a Heritage 150. I love it!

Thanks! This is the first brand new guitar I have bought in a long, long time. It's also the most expensive guitar I have ever owned. I tend to buy used instruments that I am able to audition in person. But this time I took the plunge with the hope that the Heritage factory & the dealer would do it right. I was not disappointed. The set up was perfect right out of the box. Fit & finish is the best I've seen from any manufacturer. The custom shop P90's do everything I need. I'm playing it through a Tone Master Bassman and wow, it just kills it.