H-150 classic with HRW pickups

[MikeChandler]

Thanks everybody! I am pretty sure I will keep the pups, they really sound good. I tried her side by side with a les Paul Traditional of 2008 and the Les Paul was totally anihillated, it sounded like a toy guitar compared to my Heritage.

 

IMHO The Heritage is more on par with the Gibson Historic & Custom Shop models. It's not even fair to put one up against a production shop les paul - The Heritage is a hand made guitar. And unlike Gibson Historic/Custom The Heritage is not pushing richilite fretboards and other shenanigans.

 

And you get an actual Kalamazoo guitar!

[Blunote]

......And you get an actual Kalamazoo guitar!

 

I like to think of them as 'Vintage built' even though they're not that old.

 

When you think about it, they're built the same way, on the same tooling, by some of the same people that built the revered Les Pauls of the 50s. That's just too cool for some folks to wrap their brain around.

 

So compare the price of a new vintage-built Heritage with 50s built Les Paul. The Heritage is a real bargain.

[Mbrown]

I'm think I will do the 50's wiring on this H 150, as the sound turns too dark when I roll of the volume. It's better to change also the capacitators and pots? The pots must be long or short shaft?

For your reference, here's a picture of my wiring:

[gpuma]

for the shaft you can find some info here

 

http://www.heritageownersclub.com/forums/topic/30500-2007-h-150cm-lightweight-short-shaft-or-long-shaft-pots/

[Blunote]

I had the pots changed out on my HRW loaded Millie. The luthier (former Heritage employee) was disappointed to see that Heritage was using cheap 2nd rate components in the control cavity and put some Musicman branded ones in that he liked a lot.

 

It mellowed the tone -especially on the bridge p'up.

[tulk1]

I had the pots changed out on my HRW loaded Millie. The luthier (former Heritage employee) was disappointed to see that Heritage was using cheap 2nd rate components in the control cavity and put some Musicman branded ones in that he liked a lot.

 

It mellowed the tone -especially on the bridge p'up.

Yeah, it seems at times that the boys will use what they can find. If they run out of the CTS spec'd, they'll just grab what they can. I'd imagine switching out the pots made a huge dif in sound/tone/response.

[Mbrown]

I checked together with my luthier and the pots are not CTS, probably some cheap pots. I will order the custom 550k pots from Bare Knuckle together with the Jensend caps, 0,015 for neck (which sounds a little bit too warm, imho) and 0,022 for bridge. Hope they will improve the sound of an already great guitar.

[tonedeaf]

I checked together with my luthier and the pots are not CTS, probably some cheap pots. I will order the custom 550k pots from Bare Knuckle together with the Jensend caps, 0,015 for neck (which sounds a little bit too warm, imho) and 0,022 for bridge. Hope they will improve the sound of an already great guitar.

 

Let us know how it works out. I have been putting off replacing the volume pot on my 535 with HRWs. (It is a D_VIP setup so it only has one volume.) A good report just might get me off my duff and get the job done.

[Genericmusic]

https://youtu.be/1rZzuIknC1Y

[Gianluca]

Ciao Mbrown, benvenuto :-)

 

great guitar, enjoy it

[shook494]

Great looking 150 with HRW's to boot!! Welcome and congrats

[Fernando]

HRWs alone go for $300 or more. Great bargain! Great guitar!