jeffbeck Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 Finally Heritage decoded the 'mistery' of that beautiful white H 150 MP. The answer was short and precise: MP = Maple Well, did anybody heard of a H 150 Maple before?? I know they make poplar, but Maple.. Very interesting anyway, and very rare too, i guess. jb
FredZepp Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 I hadn't heard of that one before... thanks for clearing that up. Here are pics of the H-150MP that you know to be maple now.
chico Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 is that all maple or mahogany/w maple cap? beautiful axe, btw. love that creme binding on white
jeffbeck Posted May 21, 2011 Author Posted May 21, 2011 is that all maple or mahogany/w maple cap? beautiful axe, btw. love that creme binding on white Well, all Heritage wrote was: MP = Maple. So I guess, that it is all maple, otherwise would not make sense. Maple top would be normal, no need to mention it. It is still on sale on ebay.de
chico Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 reason I ask is because my H155 is an all maple body, chambered of course, but no F holes. weighs about 8lbs.
tulk1 Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 Pretty sure the M=Maple, as they told you. But that P=Poplar. Poplar body, Maple cap. Otherwise it'd weigh in around 12-13lbs, maybe more. And be so bright it'd shine at night .......... Love that fading white.
FredZepp Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 Pretty sure the M=Maple, as they told you. But that P=Poplar. Poplar body, Maple cap. Otherwise it'd weigh in around 12-13lbs, maybe more. And be so bright it'd shine at night .......... Love that fading white. That makes a lot of sense.. as normally a Poplar version would have no cap... And yes , the faded white with the cream binding looks great.
jeffbeck Posted May 22, 2011 Author Posted May 22, 2011 I am pretty sure, it is all maple. First: there are differnt types of Maple: Hard maple, soft Maple, medium maple etc. Depends on where it comes from, how fast it grew etc. Accordingly the specific weight is different. Soft-maple is pretty light, more or less like poplar, little heavier only. Real Hard maple is heavy like a brick, right. Second: we have good examples from all-maple guitars from all over the last 50 years or so: the Japanese made copies of the LPs in the 70th all maple, even some Epiphones made in Indonesia in the 90th where made entierly maple, and the last 2 years or so whe have the invasion of the gibbis LP RAW POWER, all maple. So Maple guitars do not have to weight more then any other same type of guitar. Might be even ligther - as in case of the indonesian Epis built by Samick (I had one). Conclusion: I think , its all maple. Maybe softer Maple back, Hard maple top. Even because imho otherwise Heritage would have answered: Maple back, Poplar top or something like that.
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