TalismanRich

OK, here's the deal. Next PSP, you bring your 530, I'll bring mine. You pick a song and let me know and we'll jam on it! When mine showed up, it had been sitting in the Fed Ex truck and temps were in the mid 90s. It took a few days for things to settle in. The low E string was buzzing, but a truss rod tweak and bridge adjustment to get it back to 5/64" pretty much cleared that up. It rings nicely now. Interestingly, it sounds quite different from my H-525, even though both are maple laminate tops with Lollar P90s. I don't know that the pickups are the same version, as the guitars were built many years apart. I took the 530 to jam with some friends, and it pretty much sat on the neck pickup the whole day, just some knob twisting and hitting a couple of pedals over 3 hours.

TKL makes them in Richmond Va. Gator makes cases in Columbia City, Indiana, just down the road from Sweetwater in Ft Wayne. G&G cases are made in Los Angeles. I think that's probably why Fender used them.

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Ah! so you're the guy who snagged that guitar. When I talked to Mike on that Wednesday, he said it was gone. I got the Antique Sunburst that was hanging next to it. I thought about the possibility that they might suspend the standard series and concentrate on the Custom Cores. In that case, I'm glad I grabbed my 530 when I did. I'm enjoying the lighter weight when I standing for 2+ hours, and it's very comfortable to play, just like the 535. I've play a few times through my Princeton, and it really sounded good going through my Strymon Iridium when I was jamming with some friends.

Maybe you should have gone with the Custom Core version rather than the standard. For the extra $2000, you do get a much nicer case, among other things. Or you could have ordered two TKL cases for $400 and sold the Heritage cases. A Collings will be a nice guitar. For $8000 it should be.

I don't know the headstock dimensions of the CC, but I measured my H-535 and the top was 1 3/4" and 2 5/8" at the widest point. My '25 H-530 is 2 1/8" at the top but still 2 5/8" on the bottom.

I don't know what exactly Heritage is using, but Lollar recommends 500K pots with 0.022uF caps, same as for humbuckers. If I had to guess, the wiring would be the same. But doing wiring on a Semi or Hollow body with f-holes is never a quick and easy project. One last comment.... the neck pickup has one spacer, so the height is not drastically different from a humbucker.

It will take some work to get Seths into an H-530. It comes with dogear P-90s, so you would most likely need to reroute the pickup holes. Plus you have two holes from the P-90s. I don't know if you could get SD to make a pair of Seths in dogear.

The cases have changed. The new ones aren't TKL, although of the 5 other Heritages I have, only 2 are classic TKLs. The one with my old 535 is different from the TKLs for my 157 or 140. In the past dealers could buy the guitars without cases and add whatever type they wanted.

They couldn't have discontinued the H300 and H335 because there are no 330 or 335! Are you thinking H-530 and H-535? I just picked up an H-530 from the factory a month ago. They had both types of guitars hanging on the wall of Ren's pickin' parlor.

I had one glitch. For some reason, it dropped sync one time in the 3 hours that it was on. I just had to press the button and it reconnected within a few seconds. No telling what happened. It's a 5.8gHz so it might be the result of a wifi conflict. It has multiple channels, so next time I'll try a different one. Sound wise, it was great. I had the Strymon dialed in for the neck pickup, and kicked in the NotaKlon a few times, and used the chorus on a couple of songs. I also used the wah for one song.

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I mentioned in my NGD post that I had ordered a wireless adapter. The post office sort of lost track of it for 8 days. It suddenly appeared on the tracker on Sunday. The Joyo JW-06 showed up today and I had time to test it out. It worked without issue, as I expected. The question I had was how did it sound. I made 3 comparisons. First I compared it to my Steiner cable direct into the Princeton. There might have been a difference, there might not have been. It was so close that I couldn't decide if I heard any difference at all. Next I plugged into my Tascam interface instrument input. In the past I've had issue with everything sounding really midrangy with no top end. I think the loading really plays havoc with guitar pickups. I even noticed it with my bass. I would use my PodXT on the Bassman setting to record. The Joyo seems to be perfect. It sounded crisp on the top and full on the bottom. Finally used my pedal board which has the Strymon Iridium for direct in use. Vox Wah > TurboTuner > TS9 > H20 Chorus > NotaKlon > Iridium. It sounded very clear, good top end and full. No issue with noise or signal loss when walking around the room. It's supposed to have 20M range We'll see how long the battery lasts. Tomorrow we should jam for about 3 hours. They are supposed to last 6-8 hours. That would just about cover an entire PSP jam. I'll have my cable in the box just in case, but it will be nice not to have to worry about stepping on my cable. $70 on Ebay or Amazon.

We'll have two drummers available. It's at one drummer's house. But, it you want to drive up and be here tomorrow around noon, feel free. I might even buy you a Reuben at Shenanigans!

I'm getting together with 3 other guys to play some tunes on Tuesday. I've been using the 535, but this week, the new H-530 will make it's debut. I did a couple minor tweaks a week ago, and it's playing nicely and seems to have settled in. I think the wood just needed to stabilize to it's environment. I ordered a Joyo wireless set a week and a half ago. I figured that this Tuesday would be a good test. The post office seems to have lost it. It made it to our distribution center in 1 day from Cincinnati and then nothing for a week. I filed a lost package report and they can't find it. Then the tracking says it will deliver Monday, only 9 days late! I should have just had my daughter order it on her Amazon Prime and it would have been here 10 days ago!

Those are gorgeous! I always loved the semis in Natural, second only to the classic red. It's interesting to see the difference in the cap on the heals of each.

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They have some guitars available at the factory, but they also have a wide selection at dealers like Sweetwater, Daves or Chicago Music Exchange. Custom Core 150s are being made daily, as are Eagle Classics.

That's why you got the Fender ToneMaster Deluxe, right? 🤣

The headstock of the original guitar at Mannys was broken when the guitar fell off the stand. Hey, it's just a cheapo Danelectro. No great loss. It's made from the finest old growth masonite pressed tonewood.

After playing through that one, I'm tempted to replace my old TS-9 Tube Screamer. I listened to a few comparisons of the Blues Driver vs Tube Screamer, and I think the Boss is more the sound I am looking for.

CVS, I just got my H-530, but I see no reason I can't play any of my normal music on it. Heck I've played Allman Bros on a 525 and Billy Holliday on my Millennium. CSN on an H-157 and Stray Cat Strut on a 535. I've even played Led Zeppelin on my acoustic! It's all good.

An update.... after letting things settle down, I've done a bit of setup work. A 1/4 turn tighter on the truss rod, and some adjusting on the bridge and it's playing nicely. 5/64 for the low E string, about a business card worth of relief around the 8th fret. It's much closer to my 535 now in feel. RE: the sound. I'm actually surprised it's darker/deeper sounding that the 525, even though they both are maple and have Lollar P90s. I brought the poles up on the G B and E of the neck pickup and took the low E down a bit. Sound is more balanced between strings now. It rings very well. And just like the 525, if you have the amp up a bit, you can get it to howl on a nice A or D string! Eternal sustain!

Having just been through the factory 2 weeks ago, things are a bit more modern, but it's still a relatively small operation compared to a Fender, Gibson, Cort or World Music. There aren't any conveyor belts carrying a hundred guitars around the building. What you see is people at benches with a guitar, maybe 2 people in the spray booth with a rack of 15 or 20 guitars hand spraying the guitars as they did for decades before. On one side, there's a guy hand wrapping binding with a half dozen guitars hanging next to him as the binding. My oldest Heritage is an 87 H140, and my newest is a 2025 H-530 that I got yesterday. I play all my old ones, I'm sure I'll play this one just the same. I love 'em.

Yes, hollow (notice the trapeze tailpiece) and P90s.