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Fun tour, I have great respect for Metropoulos amps.That reminds me of Jim Ws front room. Ha.

Heritage use 3 different headstock sizes. Large for Jazz guitars, medium and small for most electric guitars. I wish I had found that out sooner. My last custom build, the Heritage Millennium SuperLight, should have had a small headstock but I had them use the medium size because it looked more balanced to me. Don't forget Heritage had a number of unconventional guitar models that used completely different headstocks, I'm looking at you MarvBird.

I have a Mesa KingSnake which is also supposed to be simple but there is simple and then there's Mesa simple. I think it weighs about 85 lbs. I can't move it anywhere, ha. Good times.

I have 2 Heritage Millennium's with spruce tops. I also have a Heritage Prospect, 2 Heritage Johnny Smith's all with spruce tops and a Heritage 170 with a spruce back. It gets worse, my Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster has a spruce body. I also had a Hammer Newport 90 that had a spruce top (Fab guitar). I might have forgot some but you get the idea. Good times.

Merry Christmas to all.

I think they belong to a local, to me, guitarist. I bought an H160v, snC08603 from him.

When Heritage built custom guitars for me that needed a center block, I always specified that they use Spruce for the block. I like light guitars.

Let's not forget JP Moats, one of the original founders.

The black tailpieces are hard to get. It's easy to get Gold or Nickel from ABM but black probably will be a special order.

I just checked my email for more information and amazingly I still had ABMs email. I hope this helps. JOWO BERLINER SCHREIBFEDER GMBH Division ABM GUITAR PARTS Wolfener-Str.36 126811 Berlin Telefon: +49 (0)30 930 211 22 Telefax: +49 (0)30 930 99 48 E-Mail: info@abm-guitarparts.de Director: Jan and Joachim Hildebrand, VAT-No .: DE 811717603 Commercial Register No .: HRB 52 708

That tailpiece is made by ABM Guitar Parts, Division of JOWO GMBH, Wolfener Str. 36 Haus X Berlin, BE 12681 Germany DE. They make a long and short version, you want the long tailpiece in black for a Heritage Johnny Smith. If ABM doesn't have a black tailpiece in stock they will make one for you. Talk to Peter Borowski at ABM. You might find one in stock at a guitar parts supplier. This is old info from November 2018 so things might have changed since then. Fab guitar. Good luck.

Sometimes it's not just the wiring. This video is mostly about cabinets but at the very end the camera pans over a Bartel amp circuit. https://youtu.be/hngt_M2Vx08?si=jxgB4rfPhB1BN0cT

One more picture because this guitar would not have been possible without Master Luthier Mr. Peter Farmer.

More pictures of the Heritage Millie SuperLight.

You knew this was coming, I was busy and couldn't post this until today. I believe this was the last Millie made by Heritage (January 2019). It just had the full Spa treatment at "The Music Gallery" from George. 1 replacement tuner (B string), new strings, polished frets and intonated. They also weighed it for the first time and it was 5.7lbs. I meet the guy that created the pickup at this years PSP and he got to see the completed guitar.