jaywolfe Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Heritage are back at work. They will no doubt issue a formal announcement soon & I will gladly post same as I receive it. They are promising deliveries soon. I can't wait! Jay Wolfe
davesultra Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Thanks for the update Jay, that's great news!!!
golferwave Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 Excellent!! I can't wait to see the pictures of the newly delivered Heritages on you website!!
skydog Posted October 30, 2007 Posted October 30, 2007 I think it's great that they're back at work. We all tend to think of them as guitar makers extraordinaire, which they are. But they all have wives and children like most of us. To them it's their livelihood. Let's all wish them well and continue to support the best bargain in guitars in the world.
deluxemeat Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 that's good news i guess. i'm kinda starting to get twitchy over my order.
GuitArtMan Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Thanks for the update Jay. Once again, you da man! Bob Faulkner
skydog52 Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Great news. A article in KZoo Gazette stated they started back to work on Monday.
sweet-tooth Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 From the Kalamazoo gazette: ;D Guitar factory gets new partner Tuesday, October 30, 2007 BY ALEX NIXON anixon@kalamazoogazette.com 388-2783 KALAMAZOO -- Heritage Guitar Inc. will keep making guitars the old-fashioned way, with its four original luthiers in the former Gibson Guitar factory on Kalamazoo's North Side. Local attorney Vince Margol has been brought in as a partner in the 22-year-old company that halted operations this summer. Margol, a principal in Margol & Kirkpatrick PLC, now is president of the company, which reopened its Parsons Street factory Monday morning. ``After four months, every employee came back,'' Margol said Monday afternoon. ``We didn't lose a single one.'' Margol said he will focus on modernizing the business and let the four original owners, J.P. Moats, Bill Paige, Jim Deurloo and Marvin Lamb, concentrate on what they do best -- building guitars. ``These guys are fantastic luthiers,'' Margol said. But the four hadn't kept up with how the business world has changed, he said. ``They didn't have a computer in the place,'' he said. ``They just kept doing business the way they did it in the '50s'' when they started working for Gibson Guitar Corp. Gibson left Kalamazoo in 1984 for Nashville, Tenn. Margol said he hopes to increase the company's efficiency and double production from its current output of about 1,200 guitars a year. The company now has 20 workers. Since opening in 1985, Heritage has been based out of the former Gibson factory on Parsons Street, where guitars have been manufactured since 1917. ``We would need to get more room in the building. In a 100-year-old building, that can be difficult,'' he said. ``But whatever happens, we don't intend to leave Kalamazoo.''
Dick Seacup Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 I so want to apply for a job in IT down there.
yoslate Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 Thanks to sweet-tooth for posting the article from the K-zoo paper. As another one of us sweating a guitar we've ordered, I found the article reassuring. I'd just about written off the Super I'd ordered in May. I feel very very fortunate to think I might get another guitar from this wonderful place, built by these remarkable men....
Yankeefan01 Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 That was a great article. ;D Looks like they're modernizing without sacrificing the quality of what they do. Let the bean counters do what they do best and let the guitar makers do what they do best.
golferwave Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 yes, So long as the bean counters don't get involved in the quality of the guitars everything will be OK.
Gitfiddler Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 GREAT!! This is like Santa and his Elves have been called back to work after a brief reorg. and ownership change at the No. Pole Toy Factory! And if happened just before the Holiday Season too!
jazzbo Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 FYI according to a reliable source, Bill Paige has sold his interest in the company to Margol
sweet-tooth Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 New from the Gazzette: http://blog.mlive.com/followthemoney/2007/...essions_fr.html
Dick Seacup Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 It's starting to look like they're generating publicity since the grand re-opening. That is a positive thing.
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