Show us your STAT.....stat!

[DucRyder]

Hi everyone. Newbie here (tried to post in another SAE thread but its not showing for some reason) anyway.... I'm fascinated with the STAT guitars both standard and DLX didn't find a dedicated STAT thread here, so figured I'd make one. I've got a small bunch of STAT pics gleaned from eBay, HOC and around the web. So let's see/talk STATs! heres a pic of a cool DLX I saw that sold on eBay to get things rolling....

 

 

[DavesNotHere]

[gpuma]

[DucRyder]

gorgeous tops all around! love the wavy eastern maple that ended up on these!

[DucRyder]

heres a sweet lefty with a more traditional headstock. Seems like lots of these were custom as the appointments vary quite a bit on some.

[gpuma]

STATs are great!

[mars_hall]

My first Heritage

 

[DucRyder]

Ooh LaLa! That's a spicy meatball! My favorite finish cherry red... The flame looks like the sister of the 1989 DLX I posted in the OP. even has the same bald spot on the upper horn.

 

My first Heritage

 

[DucRyder]

I pinched this pic of another gorgeous cherry Stat but with a whambulator...

[DucRyder]

Seems Billy F. had a hankerin for something kinda similar from Mark Erlewine...

[DucRyder]

I know Mark Knofler dug this style/recipe with mahogany and maple with his Erlewine and later Pensa-Suhr...

[DucRyder]

Do all the STATs have stingers? Anyone have a guess how many are out in the wild? I thought I read a very small number here on the forum from Brent.

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=72f6EUjsB_Y

[DucRyder]

I guess the single coils sound pretty good? Here's a HOC member with an H162 lighting it up with some Beckish. The H162 is a bit of a cousin to the STAT different construction/wood but same pickups/tremolo/body shape.

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j0UdRk-0Ags

[bolero]

what is the Heritage built like a STAT, but with a bolt-on neck?

[DucRyder]

what is the Heritage built like a STAT, but with a bolt-on neck?

H162?

[DucRyder]

Or VIP?

[bolero]

aha, yes it's a VIP!

 

thanks!

[DucRyder]

So Heritage did a few "super strat" types. STAT, STAT DLX, H160V, H162, VIP1 and VIP2 with 24 3/4 scale only available on the H162. I wonder what species "hard-wood" designates in a few of the models.

 

http://www.heritageguitar.com/models/nonproduction.html

[DucRyder]

Here's someone shredding on a H162

 

http://vimeo.com/m/74252678

[DucRyder]

[DucRyder]

Looks like Brent H. was told by Ren Wall only 10-15 STAT DLX ever made?!?

 

http://www.heritageownersclub.com/forums/topic/13720-stat-vs-stat-dlx/

[DucRyder]

I bought that 1989 STAT DLX pictured in the OP.... I think its a "one of a kind" the reason(s) being the collection of features and one feature that I haven't seen on any other, trapezoid inlays!

 

heres what I think makes it unique:

 

(1) trapezoid inlays

(2) non-contoured back on a DLX, every other one I've seen has the belly carve

(3) regular STAT headstock on a DLX, every other DLX I've seen has a sharp hockey stick like a charvel

[rushgrl2112]

My STAT!

 

 

Sadly having to part with it. I'm going to put it up in the Marketplace if anyone is interested.

[DucRyder]

dbl post

[DucRyder]

I bought that 1989 STAT DLX pictured in the OP.... I think its a "one of a kind" the reason(s) being the collection of features and one feature that I haven't seen on any other, trapezoid inlays!

 

heres what I think makes it unique:

 

(1) trapezoid inlays

(2) non-contoured back on a DLX, every other one I've seen has the belly carve

(3) regular STAT headstock on a DLX, every other DLX I've seen has a sharp hockey stick like a charvel

Also I think this has a one piece back not scarfed. Looking at the end grain in the sun confirms the "cathedral" flat sawn one piece grain of the back. The neck is reminiscent of a 1961 Les Paul/SG I used to own. No shoulder and very comfy. The pick ups are a Marciella Juarez wound JB"J" and two classic stacks. Exceptionally resonant and acoustically loud.