DetroitBlues

Probably not, the HRW was a Schaller humbucker that was completely reworked. However, just my thoughts anyway.

I’ve got a feeling the Standard USA model line is going away and only Custom Cores will be USA made…

Lol, well said Kuz. I'm lugging around tube amps to this day. I do have a solid state, pedal amp only as a backup. That Metropoulos amp I'm using has power settings from 10/25/50 watts, but unlike most amps that offer such features, the tone doesn't change. A lot of work went into it from what I understand, but make no mistake, it's a boutique amp and isn't cheap.

Is it so much of a volume issue as it is weight? Those modelers/solid state abominations are significantly lighter. For some reason the Fender Mustang craze just came to mind. How many people here and other places raved on the 100w Mustang III combo and the Mustang IV head/cabinet? I know they were lightweight... but was the tone really there?

I have a custom ordered H535, turning 9 years old this year. When I initially bought it, I didn't want the single-ply plastic pickguard that was offered. Years before it would have been a matching flame bound maple pickguard, but cost-cutting measures reduced it to a cheap piece of plastic. A few years ago, I had a newer designed, multiply pickguard installed. Looks better to me. Fast-forward to 2023, I purchased a new H150 factory direct with a standard pickguard. For some reason, I like that guitar without a pickguard. Again looks better. I have a HOC LE H137 with soapbar P90's. To my eyes, it looks "right" with a NOS Gibson pickguard on it vs without it. Can't explain it, but some guitars seem right with a pickguard and others don't. Anyone else do this?

I'd wave the banner, but the band asked me to stop. People thought it was the name of the band...

There is a trick for pickup rings. Tape a piece of sandpaper on the top, gently glide the pickup ring back and forth until it makes the curve of the top. The tailpiece is also original.. Fine guitar all around. Hows the neck shape?

Nice looking guitar. I've also contemplated the full multi-effects route as I had a pedal board that was way too heavy and had a couple of failures that took way to long to figure out. I've simplified a lot of it and sold off a bunch of pedals to use mutli-purpose pedals. (Not really "multi-effects") How does this unit compare tonal-wise to what you had before? Here’s my slimmer board, I have swapped the Timmy and the BM so I can use the BM as a volume/clean boost. The Wampler has two inputs and two outputs so I can save presets as either a preamp effect or use in the effects loop.

I used to put the single coil sized humbuckers in my Strat's for year, that sounded good, but never quite what I wanted. When I got a Tele style guitar (Reverend Buckshot), I did the same thing again. Still sounded okay. My last Reverend was a Trickshot which again, I used a ZexCoil in the bridge. Sounded okay again. A couple years ago, I bought a used Highway 1 (1st Gen) Strat that had a single coil sized rail in the bridge pickup. That sounded awesome! I've since starting using a Dimarzio Chopper T in the bridge of my Am Pro II Tele and I absolutely love it. Its noiseless, has some great spank, but still sounds like a single coil. I've since converted both my Strats to Dimarzio single coil rail pickups. A Chopper in a Player Series Strat and a Fast Track 2 in a "vintage" American Standard. Both sound great; just another option if you want a noiseless option that still sounds like a single coil

Nice score. What did you change on it or what did the previous owner change? Those old 140's have a seriously deep dish carve on the top, so much so, the pickup rings would crack. Hard to tell if the pickups were swapped, but the rings are new(er) and I think the top-hat knobs are also a replacement part. Only other thing I saw was the screws for the tuners were black. Nothing wrong with any of that, but if you paid a higher price then you'd like, I hope it wasn't sold as an all-original with a repaired headstock.

Wowzers, that's some series string gauges. I used 12's on an acoustic, but I'm basically strumming chords. On any electric, there is just no way I could do that when it comes to vibrato, bends, etc. Hats off to you!

Have you tried that yet? It seems relatively new which may explain why I really haven't seen anyone talk about it.

You can bet any guitar from 2015 or earlier that has a huge neck, it was most likely neck carved by Marv with his famous "Marv-Carve". I know there was a unique H157 that Marvin did several years ago from the neck carving to the paint. Maybe others would know this, but I also believe any unique custom one-off may have been worked by Marv.

Not sure what the difference is, but it’s not going to sway me either way. I won’t be spending that kind of money on a guitar…

Planned to sell? Otherwise, I’m not worried about it. Yet. I’m more curious to see scammers trying to pose these as USA models. But the neck heel and belly cuts give it away. Sellers could sand away serial numbers and some older Heritages have three screw truss rod covers, so swapping with a blank is possible