unikh550 Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 With books on Taylor, Martin, (quite a few), Guild, Washburn, ibanez, and Epiphone available, will there be a coffee table book on Heritage, since they've been in business since '85? Would love to look at full color, full page photos of all the guitar models they've produced.
barrymclark Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 There is someone here who is working on it. Long forgotten who it was. The site is down now. Maybe the book deal fell apart. RhoadsScholar, was it you doing the book?
FredZepp Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Someone needs to get all of Ren's stories on paper.... !!!!!!!! and... yes.. it would be great to have a book with lots of Heritage pics in it.
DetroitBlues Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Just print out the pictures from the PSP photo's....
Guest HRB853370 Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Lane Zastrow had a book written. It was paperback and not very many pages.
High Flying Bird Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Just print out the pictures from the PSP photo's.... That's right!
blueox Posted November 9, 2011 Posted November 9, 2011 "With books on Taylor, Martin, (quite a few), Guild, Washburn, ibanez, and Epiphone available, will there be a coffee table book on Heritage, since they've been in business since '85? Would love to look at full color, full page photos of all the guitar models they've produced." This is an excellent idea, since after 26+ years, there would be more than enough rich Heritage history and anecdotes to fill a good-sized book with plenty of text and photos. For such a book, it would be nice to have an author of the calibre of a Gil Hembree, for example, who did the quality book, Gibson Guitars: Ted McCarty's Golden Era 1948-1966.
JohnCovach Posted November 9, 2011 Posted November 9, 2011 I'd do it if I could get the cooperation of the Heritage guys.
Spectrum13 Posted November 9, 2011 Posted November 9, 2011 We could start a new section on the forum. Year by year. Intro for each model starting in 1984 with examples, photos and a little story of each model's features. Then the custom variations on each. We show off a photo and a history... how we came up with our "improvements" when it was ordered and when completed. I'm sure we all know a bunch of icon examples. I would expect to see a Korina 357, the first 535 with P90s, Blues DeLuxe, Tim's 525, a Steiner 575. Build the data base add a few interviews at PSPV, edit, into and table of contents. What else?
GASguy Posted November 9, 2011 Posted November 9, 2011 Or we could just catalog the Heritages that move through Brent's collection-- that would fill a book!
RhoadsScholar Posted November 13, 2011 Posted November 13, 2011 I had approached Heritage about doing this book a few days before the 1st PSP get together (that is when I ordered my H-170 Second Edition. Marv and Vince were very receptive to the idea. I was just coming off some recent success of my 'RhoadsScholar.com' book (shameless plug) as this was going to be a joint project of 3 generations (My dad, myself, and my 22 year old son). My son and I got some great pictures and met with Marv and Ren a few months later. I started the website TheHeritageStory.com and begin communicating with members on this great forum. As John Lennon once said "You make plans, then Life Happens." My son moved to Arizona, my dad was going through alot, and I ended up loosing my url through my hosting company and am still trying to get it back, urgh. Since that time, the PSP has really taken off and I thought I could change the approach from a book to an on-line interactive site that could compliment , not compete with this site. The costs changed several times for a coffee table type book as I am self published through Amazon.com and they have aquired several different companies over the past few years. It became too costly. I think there are a lot of great folks on PSP that could collectively pull this off. I am no longer pursuing this, but I would gladly share a conversation if anyone else is interested. The folks at Heritage have always been great and am sure they would like to see someone pull this off.
Guest HRB853370 Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 We could start a new section on the forum. Year by year. Intro for each model starting in 1984 with examples, photos and a little story of each model's features. Then the custom variations on each. We show off a photo and a history... how we came up with our "improvements" when it was ordered and when completed. I'm sure we all know a bunch of icon examples. I would expect to see a Korina 357, the first 535 with P90s, Blues DeLuxe, Tim's 525, a Steiner 575. Build the data base add a few interviews at PSPV, edit, into and table of contents. What else? What else? I will tell you what else! Slammer's Blueburst 575! Excellent idea Dan, and I know a couple in Florida that publishes books for folks, very inexpensively. They are going to publish my book when its completed.
DetroitBlues Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 What else? I will tell you what else! Slammer's Blueburst 575! Excellent idea Dan, and I know a couple in Florida that publishes books for folks, very inexpensively. They are going to publish my book when its completed. I've also suggested using a part of this site as a catalog of guitars by serial number and ownership. But it's too difficult for a new catagory to be added. Might be possible to start something like this as a locked thread if we could get Admin and the Moderators (sounds like a band!) to do it.
barrymclark Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 What else? I will tell you what else! Slammer's Blueburst 575! Excellent idea Dan, and I know a couple in Florida that publishes books for folks, very inexpensively. They are going to publish my book when its completed. You are finally publishing "Slammer's Guide to Cornering the Used Market on Gibson GA Model Amps"?
pressure Posted November 14, 2011 Posted November 14, 2011 My first visit to Heritage was in 1991. I went in the front door and went upstairs which was empty then I went downstairs and found everybody in the lunch room on break. I had them sign a book I had brought, The Gibson Super 400 by Thomas A. Van Hoose, I remember Ren saying that they weren't Gibson why did I want them to sign the book. My reply, you're the ones who made the guitars in the book, and they all signed. I asked for a tour and they said they didn't give tours. But there was a collage student who had been doing research for a book and he offered to take me on a tour which he did. He was very informed, showing me among other things where Orville had his desk. I don't remember his name but if he could be located he has a lot of info on Heritage.
JackBaruth Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 I just ordered that Super 400 book from Amazon. It came with Mr. Van Hoose's card and his signature on the inside front page!
pressure Posted November 15, 2011 Posted November 15, 2011 It's a great book. Mine has signatures on the inside also, Tom Huyck, Marvin Lamb, Russ Uyllstra, Ron Wesau, Floyd Newt, J.P. Moats, Jin Daurloo and Rendal Wall.
heritagefan7 Posted November 16, 2011 Posted November 16, 2011 Got to add the 574 to the book as a "1 of 20" collectable!...Even if it didn't make it in the book, I'd buy it--read it, and display it.
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