brentrocks Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 This Heritage H 140 came up on the local craigslist....the pictures showed a monster natural quilt top, which is very rare for Heritage, usually they used flame maple only unless it was a special order. I called the guy, he was super nice. Come to find out, he was one of the managers at an Outback Steak House near Grand Rapids, MI....he also wanted to check out my '68 SG/MM. He said if we drive up he will buy us a steak dinner at Outback!!! So my wife, daughter and I drove to GR tonight to meet Ed. Checked out the guitars and I came home with the H 140! He was a really nice guy and we had a great dinner! When I got it home, I wanted to put some chrome covered pickups in it to replace the black ones that were in it....did that. Also upgraded the Schaller hardware to locking Tone Pros. Got her all setup and plugged it in!! It plays and sounds wonderful...slim neck, lightweight. One piece mahogany back, killer bookmatched quilt maple top, beautiful slab of rosewood too. Frets are in great shape as well. There are a couple small dings, nothing terrible...for being owned by a professional musician, it was well taken care of!!!
StephenK Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Very nice! Hope you are bring it to the barn for all of us to see?
brentrocks Posted July 24, 2013 Author Posted July 24, 2013 Nice, Did you do a trade for your '68 SG/MM? I wanted to but he needed the money instead of a guitar
brentrocks Posted July 24, 2013 Author Posted July 24, 2013 A 1994 H-140 QM ! ! Now that's cool ! thanks Fred....I thought that was funny too....QM instead of CM
schundog Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Something told me when you said you were going to take a look at it tonight, you were going to come home with it. Congratulations, Man!
SouthpawGuy Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 That one's full of quilty quilted quiltedness for sure. Congrats on a fine one Brent !
yoslate Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 I'm not normally a fan of quilted maple, but that's one amazing piece of lumber! good score Brent. I was pretty sure you'd wind up with that one. Exceptional!
koula901 Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Quilty, lightweight, and a Florentine cut to boot! Now, who's got dibs?
HANGAR18 Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Quilty, lightweight, and a Florentine cut to boot! Now, who's got dibs? hahaha If It were a translucent cherry I would have called dibbs already. I'm not a big fan of natural finish... but then again, natural is the easiest to get refinished... naw, I've bought enough guitars this year.
SofaPlayer Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Always very special, very beautiful, those florentine cut Lesters. Congrats & enjoy!
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.