TalismanRich

Is the H-530 a great instrument? I was always a big fan of the 535 / semihollow style, but I am really digging the 530 I grabbed last year. It's too bad you didn't get the matching sign to go with it!!!

This was from the 2018 tour. It's the same rope method we was this year.

I took some video of a fellow wrapping binding the first year they moved to the back area of the factory. He was doing the traditional rope method then. He had set up a little "glue pot" where he could drag the binding across and it applied the glue to the strip. Apply it to the routed channel, and then wrap while the solvent dries. Most guitar binding is Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic, which is very soluble in acetone. Toss any scraps you have in some solvent and you make more glue. But buying a premade solution would probably be more consistent. It's similar to the old model car glue we used to buy, except that was just styrene dissolved in toluene.

Yes, they are making their version of a staple pickup. Square Alnico magnets, P90 size. The head winder was showing a couple of us how he is making them. That guy is like a chef in the kitchen when it comes to pickups!

Yeah, you were so much older then, you're younger than that now!!!! 😁

Heritage doesn't sell pickups. If they are the 225 Classics, then you're out of luck unless you find someone who is selling them from their guitar. Check the inside of the control cavity to see if it says 225 Classic, or Lollar. Lollar P90s used to be the standard issue pickups. I have them in both my H525 and the H-530 that I picked up last year after visiting the factory.

I ran across this video some time back, and somehow I found it again this morning. Not only is there a sweet 535, but check out the cool dude playing it!!! I think I've seen him before.

Maybe we should switch to Asian porn instead of Swedish porn.

I bet that will catch a few "occasional" users. I had to check to see which of 5 emails was used.

FWIW, with the Gibson ES330, the neck joins at a different point than an ES335. On the H-530, it joins at the same point as the H-535. You can see that the bridge is mounted at a different point of the f hole. It was something I noticed when I was trying out a Blues Driver and used an ES330. It felt different than my 530, and I couldn't at first, figure out why. Here are the Gibsons vs the Heritages.

IF you look at the neck join, the Roy Clark cutaway comes in at the 16th fret, but on the 576, it joins at the 14th fret. The two fret change in the point where the neck joins the body means the bridge and tailpiece need to move. It also means that the neck pickup is a bit more towards the center of the scale, so it is probably a bit more mellow than the Roy Clark. The 575 also joins at the 14th fret. That would make the 576 like the 575 in pickup placement.

The 576 is semihollow, laminate top and back with solid rims. Here's the spec from the '89 catalog. I have the H525 which is thinner, laminate like the 576 but fully hollow and with P90s. It's a bit like a smaller version of the 550 to my thinking. 16" vs 17", 24.75 vs 25.5 scale, both semihollow, so you should have a center block. 2 3/4" thick vs 2 7/8" It's not shown in the 2005 catalog that I have. It was shown in the '93 catalog.

A pair of tuxedos! Very nice. I love the look of the 157. It was my choice when I ordered my first Heritage over 20 years ago.

The Bandits have been one of those amps that just work without any problem... mostly bulletproof, don't need to worry about spare tubes, and sound pretty decent. The Peavey folks actually knew what they were doing!

It won't have QC dates, but in that period, the serial number tells you when the number was assigned. 1994 should have a K serial number. The five digits of the serial number encode the day and order of manufacture for the guitar. The first group of three digits represent the days remaining in the year on the day the guitar was completed. The last two digits indicate the build order on that day. For example, a guitar with a serial number of B35012 can be decoded as follows: B: Year built is 1985 (a rare find, indeed!) 350: Built on the fifteenth day of the year (365-350=15) 12: The twelfth guitar completed on this day Unlike bolt neck guitars, you won't find dates in a neck pocket, or written in the pickup routes.