brentrocks Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 This guitar started it life as a 1989 H 150 CM. It suffered what most people would have seen as, a terminal fracture!!! The guitar was given to a local kzoo fella, who does guitar repairs, only on the side and mainly as a hobby. His name is Bob, he is an aquaintance of a friend of mine. He is currently ressurecting a vintage Kalamazoo acoustic that belonged to my great grandfather. The section of the neck was completely broken, somehow, he was able to salvage the fret board and splice in a new piece of neck/headstock. Bob took this H 150 and fixed this, almost terminal neck break....but he added a twist, he he put an open book style headstock sporting a Gibson logo. The guitar made it into the hands of my friend, where i first saw it and was able to play it. He let me take it home to mess with for a while and i was able to buy it. The caliber of this repair would make any luthier cringe! It is absoloutly amazing how great this guitar plays and sounds!!! It sports a Duncan JB/59 combo, 500k pots, PIO caps and switchcraft toggle. I cant imagine the amount of work that went into this repair...especially to make it play THIS GOOD!!!!
FredZepp Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 It's funny how the flame top of the guitar and it's finish just scream Heritage and the headstock belies that. That's cool that he managed to resurrect this old 150 and bring it back to life. I bet that it rocks... nice find, Brent.
mars_hall Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 So you've got you one of them there Gibitage or Herison guitars. Looks great.!
schundog Posted August 29, 2015 Posted August 29, 2015 Wow! That doesn't look like it should work, but if it works, it works! Congratulations, buddy.
tulk1 Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 Yeah, I don't like the headstock .....................
bolero Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 sacrilege....I don't like it. it's a Heritage, it deserves to be loud & proud. a local guy around here did the same thing. I think it looks awkward & probably devalues it. is anyone else having trouble getting sentences to split it their posts? this should be a whole new line, but I bet it's tagged onto the last sentence
varminthunter1 Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 Nice guitar Brent! beautiful Mahogany back as well. Congrats!
tulk1 Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 sacrilege....I don't like it. it's a Heritage, it deserves to be loud & proud. a local guy around here did the same thing. I think it looks awkward & probably devalues it. is anyone else having trouble getting sentences to split it their posts? this should be a whole new line, but I bet it's tagged onto the last sentence Devalued? The headstock was snapped off! And part of the neck, too. I doubt it can get much more devalued. Altho' I do think the headstock looks a bit weird on a Heritage body. BTW, the Advanced Editor seems to be on the fritz. Seems to have defaulted to a simple text editor, and no formatting options. At least, for now.
bolero Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 ah, sorry I was referring to the local guy! he took a perfectly good H150, and added wings/redrilled the headstock etc to make it look like a Gibson
tulk1 Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 ah, sorry I was referring to the local guy!he took a perfectly good H150, and added wings/redrilled the headstock etc to make it look like a Gibson Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that ain't right. Have you seen the one Gregor? (youtube guy), Just looks wrong.
DetroitBlues Posted August 30, 2015 Posted August 30, 2015 ah, sorry I was referring to the local guy!he took a perfectly good H150, and added wings/redrilled the headstock etc to make it look like a Gibson I remember a member who did that. That was a long time ago...
brentrocks Posted August 31, 2015 Author Posted August 31, 2015 sacrilege....I don't like it. it's a Heritage, it deserves to be loud & proud. a local guy around here did the same thing. I think it looks awkward & probably devalues it. is anyone else having trouble getting sentences to split it their posts? this should be a whole new line, but I bet it's tagged onto the last sentence I would have rather seen a heritage headstock too. But I had no input in the repair.
bolero Posted September 1, 2015 Posted September 1, 2015 yeah after meeting the guys at the factory, I feel it is an insult to take something they built, and put an inferior headstock on it
DetroitBlues Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 To be fair here... At PSP a couple years ago, someone ran across a broken off Gibson headstock lying in deep pile of dust... If that headstock was indeed mounted to a Heritage, would opinions differ on the matter considering it both the headstock and the neck/body were produced at the factory?
FredZepp Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 To be fair here... At PSP a couple years ago, someone ran across a broken off Gibson headstock lying in deep pile of dust... If that headstock was indeed mounted to a Heritage, would opinions differ on the matter considering it both the headstock and the neck/body were produced at the factory? It's kinda like a Camaro with a big Mustang logo on it.. But it doesn't bother me .. I'd play it and enjoy the mojo that comes from within...
tbonesullivan Posted September 2, 2015 Posted September 2, 2015 OOF. Usually you'd see that type of repair with a scarf joint to distribute the load. But I guess it works, somehow. Probably putting a ton of stress on the fretboard.
DetroitBlues Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Rumor has it the guitar will be heavly modified further...
JeffB Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 OOF. Usually you'd see that type of repair with a scarf joint to distribute the load. But I guess it works, somehow. Probably putting a ton of stress on the fretboard. carbon fibre reinforced I guess. Good stuff. The type of joint probably less important than a tradional repair.
tulk1 Posted September 3, 2015 Posted September 3, 2015 Rumor has it the guitar will be heavly modified further... Saw that, too. Perfect candidate for the mod.
brentrocks Posted September 5, 2015 Author Posted September 5, 2015 the rumor is correct....its at Pete Morenos as we speak for a middle pickup route
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