rockabilly69

congrats, nice looking combo and great sounding amp!

I just blew it up in Photoshop and that definitely looks like a crack. I would like to look it over very quickly and I would ask how that happened.

There are so many good companies that make pedal boards, power supplies, gig bags or hard cases for them etc. It's hard to give advice when we don't know what's floatin' up in your noggin. When I start building a new pedalboard, I think of the job that it is going to do, and then I build to that. I needed a very simple board as a backup for my main acoustic board just in case it goes down, and knowing I was going to use 4 pedals, it wouldn't need to be very big. So I figured I could make one from parts I got at the local home depot. I used some black paint, simple shelving, aluminum from the metal stock, and screws and handles from the fastener section. The only thing that didn't come from home depot was the rubber feet which I already had here. I power it with a one spot to the tuner. And the tuner powers everything wlse from it's convenience 500mv 9 volt DC outlet. It has all the pedals I need for my acoustic guitars that are equipped with magnetic pickups: volume, tuner, EQ, reverb and delay. The beauty of building your own board is that you can make it the exact size you need it. After I built mine, I did a google search and found a company that had a gig back that would fit it.

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.

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.

What I know about Jazz guitar playing could fit on the head of a needle, but I love watching those Rich Severson videos. He does great demos, and gets some great tones out of those jazz boxes!

That is really a cool pic of him holding one of his creations!

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium between tone and playability. But I can without a doubt that when it's time to record I won't use any coated strings.

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium between tone and playability. But I can without a doubt that when it's time to record I won't use any coated strings.

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium between tone and playability. But I can without a doubt that when it's time to record I won't use any coated strings.

I've always found this to be true. It's worth it to spend a few bucks to see what your guitar likes. Recently I went through that with my Martin HD28, and I didn't like 13's. so I knocked it back to 12.5s and found a happy medium,

Pickguard ON! Always! It protects the wood from crazy picking, and helps me anchor my hand for fingerpicking!

After playing our first few gigs with 50 watters (Marshall Plexi and Mesa Fillmore 50) Ryan, the other guitarist, and I went down to 22 watters (Deluxe Reverb and TopHat Club Deluxe). Our stage sound is much better. It feels like it does in our rehersal room. It also made it easier for me to get a good acoustic sound on the few songs I'm playing acoustic or resonator. And people in the audience LOVED the sound. And bonus, the vocals came through even louder with less work for the soundman. Tube amps forever, screw modelers!

And never once have you regretted it! I'm with you all the way! The best and most simplest option. I think Heritage should just ship there guitars with FABER hardware.