Golden Eagle headstock question

[MartyGrass]

I just noticed my GE headstock veneer has an abalone tree under a MOP eagle. I don't think I've seen abalone for the tree before. ???

 

 

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[MartyGrass]

[TalismanRich]

This is from the 2007 that is for sale on the board. Looks just like yours.

[JackBaruth]

I think my Super Eagle was like that as well.

[Steiner]

Mine, reg # 828, is dual MOP.

[MartyGrass]

I searched quite a few images and found soom abalone and some MOP. My previous two GEs were MOP x 2.

[yoslate]

My Super, an '07 build, is abalone tree....

[Spectrum13]

My 2012 575 has abalone too.

[Kuz]

[MartyGrass]

Years back Heritage didn't do the MOP "The Heritage" inlays in their H157s, sometime in the 90s. That was pretty obvious. But this abalone tree thing- I just missed it. And there doesn't seem to be a consistency in years and models on whether MOP or abalone was used.

 

The only thing for sure is that the abalone tree guitars have a little fuller tone with warmer lows. It's like a cosmic antenna on the headstock that attracts all that is good in the universe.

 

Of course I could be wrong on this point.

[MartyGrass]

Here's a MOP variant on my old 2004 black GE.

 

 

[Gitfiddler]

Here's a MOP variant on my old 2004 black GE.

 

 

 

I think my '93 is all MOP. Will check tonite.

[H]

The only thing for sure is that the abalone tree guitars have a little fuller tone with warmer lows. It's like a cosmic antenna on the headstock that attracts all that is good in the universe.

 

Of course I could be wrong on this point.

You're completely correct in this, Mark. I have it on good authority that the abalone trees are fully floating with a long tenon.

[Genericmusic]

The only thing for sure is that the abalone tree guitars have a little fuller tone with warmer lows. It's like a cosmic antenna on the headstock that attracts all that is good in the universe.

You're completely correct in this, Mark. I have it on good authority that the abalone trees are fully floating with a long tenon.

 

 

You guys must have been speaking to the guitar gods.

[FredZepp]

The only thing for sure is that the abalone tree guitars have a little fuller tone with warmer lows. It's like a cosmic antenna on the headstock that attracts all that is good in the universe.

 

Of course I could be wrong on this point.

There may be something to this theory of yours.... My Eagle has abalone inlay..

 

[2bornot2bop]

Here's a MOP variant on my old 2004 black GE.

 

 

 

So given your recollection of that former GE would you say she was an exception to:

 

"The only thing for sure is that the abalone tree guitars have a little fuller tone with warmer lows. It's like a cosmic antenna on the headstock that attracts all that is good in the universe.

 

Of course I could be wrong on this point. "

 

Or perhaps, Heritage broke the acoustic MOP tone mold with that GE?

[Gitfiddler]

I'd prefer tap tuned abalone!

[DC Ron]

My 92 SE and 93 GE had Pearl trees. Green abalone is the bomb.

 

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[bolero]

I have one with an abalone tree

[skbaily]

The headstock on my '88 GE is all MOP. And for the record, the acoustic quality is deep, rich, wonderful :-)

 

Mine also has a bell-shaped truss-rod cover, as opposed to the current flat-bottomed covers. I kinda like the bell, but suspect it too closely resembled those used by that other company...

[MartyGrass]

The bell shaped TRC pretty much exactly replicates the Gibson TRC. Here's proof.

 

Before- Heritage TRC.

 

 

 

After- old Gibson TRC

 

[hotfordcoupe]

A baloney inlay? I don't see no baloney inlays. Who said it was made of baloney? Now, I really feel- - - - - - - - What? That's not baloney, it's abalone? Oh. Never mind.