MartyGrass Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 I found this in another forum. ............................................ HRW... seems it is Heritage's "premier" pup created by one of its long-time employees. Here is some of the write-up on it: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rendal Wall has been with Heritage Guitar for the past 20 years, and was with Gibson Guitar Inc., for 22 years (1960-1982). His father Rem Wall*, worked at Gibson for 37 years. Rendal Wall, is the inventor of: Gibson's - TP-6 (Fine-Tune Tail Piece - 1978). Bigsby Vibratos - ( new string roller pin bar )-- Eliminated the pins and set screws in the back string roller bar that held the string balls in place, and replaced the pins and allen set screws with roll pins, that are still used today. No more allen set screws are necessary, plus the holes do not have to be tapped. This was an idea to keep the strings from breaking as the handle is worked up and down and the strings would roll across the open holes and cut the strings. Gibson's - "Equa" Strings - Each string within the set, pulls within + or - , 2 lbs. The balanced string sets of today, came from this original idea. Gibson's - Top-Adjust TOM bridge. Gibson's - Top-Adjust- 3 point TOM bridge. This can be used on right or left handed guitars. Gibson's - Brass " Sustain Sisters " (brass rods under the bridge-like on B.B. King's "Lucille"), (the Howard Robert's Fusion guitar), (and the ES- 347), Gibson's - G-3 Grabber Bass, Pickup slide. One sliding pickup, taking the place of two pickups. It slides back and forth to a desired position. Gibson's - Fiber Insert in Gibson flat-top bridges (to keep the bridge pins from splitting the bridge) Heritage's - Single VIP ( for bridge pickup only ), and D-VIP ( Double Var-i-Phase) electronics. Variable phase rollers.
MartyGrass Posted March 30, 2012 Author Posted March 30, 2012 Ren told me that he was inspired by the violin. He also said that he learned to get patent rights after that since he didn't make a penny on the design. Ren's a pretty clever guy.
blueox Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Yes, Ren is often under the radar, but to those in the know, he has offered much to Gibson and then Heritage. Assuming Ren started with Heritage at their beginning, he has been with them for 27 years as of April 01. Someone should hurry up and do an oral history project with Ren and some of the others at Heritage before their insights and stories of 225 Parsons St. are lost to the passage of time.
FredZepp Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 Yes, Ren is often under the radar, but to those in the know, he has offered much to Gibson and then Heritage. Assuming Ren started with Heritage at their beginning, he has been with them for 27 years as of April 01. Someone should hurry up and do an oral history project with Ren and some of the others at Heritage before their insights and stories of 225 Parsons St. are lost to the passage of time. +1 We need a Heritage coffee table book... complete with the stories and photographs.
bolero Posted March 31, 2012 Posted March 31, 2012 Ren kicks ass!! hey April 1st is the anniversary of Heritage gtr....coming up soon
heritagefan7 Posted March 31, 2012 Posted March 31, 2012 Ren's always been great to talk to and extremely helpful to me---AND---if April 1 is the anniversary...thn HAPPY B'DAY HERITAGE GUITARS!
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