DanD Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 In the late 80s I had a solid red Heritage X body style w/rosewood board, no binding, stop tail, hockey stick headstock w/Grovers all on one side, 1 Schaller (hot) uncovered 'bucker and 1 warm as all hell slanted single coil w/large pole pieces neck pup guitar. The pick guard looked like a reverse V shape with the point of the V flattened. I still have the tuners, pups and pick guard. The guitar was a second and unplayable (except for slide) above the 7th fret. The body and neck are long gone. Anyone know what it was called and where I can find one? I've looked and done multiple searches on the web and on this site to no avail. Now I'm tortured!
jacques Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 I've seen one for sale some time ago here in the Netherlands. I believe it could have been an H 127 custom or standard. You could have a quick look on my website to check if the body shape and headstock of my 127 look like your old buddy. www.jacquesguitars.com/Heritage127_English.html
DanD Posted December 7, 2007 Author Posted December 7, 2007 Thanks for trying, but that model looks like a set neck Tele. Mine was that color red though. The body shape of the guitar I owned was closest to a Gibson Explorer in shape, but it was not an Explorer clone. The headstock was very Explorer like. It also had the headstock back painted in black and terminating into a point. The headstock simply said "The Heritage" w/no model name. It was a "pointy" hard rock style guitar that used a stop tail instead of a whammy. I've only ever seen the one I owned. I've done many searches for it and it appears in no literature that I've found. I've never seen one on ebay either but I figure someone here knows of it. I purchased the guitar at Green Shift Music and Comics on Nebraska Ave. in Tampa, FL. Green Shift was a Heritage dealer and they bought a bunch of seconds once. I say once because the seconds that arrived were awful. I picked it up new for $250. Really a steal if it had been playable. As it wasit wasn't and I didn't have the cash back then for a board level and refret. Augostino's over on Drew St. in Clearwater, FL said it had two issues: 1. the neck set was off and 2. the board had a hump in it. I was told he could level the board and get it more playable then it was but that a reset and board level would be around $100 more than I paid for the guitar. His consensus was it was good for parts and not much else. Greenshift sold all those seconds "as is" so I had no recourse there. I had played it in the shop but hadn't sited the neck so I missed the hump altogether and the neck didn't click with me until Augostino had shown me the issue.
Dick Seacup Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Heritage made an explorer-styled body with six-on-a-side tuners back in the mid- to late-80s. It was called the "Terminator" model. I had found a used model (black, white guard) for sale on the used section of Guitarget's site, but I see it's no longer there. :-
DanD Posted December 9, 2007 Author Posted December 9, 2007 I did a search for "terminator" and/or "xterminator" with "Heritage guitar" to no avail. I've found many pages showing Heritage models but this mode is never included. It seems kinda' odd as Heritage is not that old of a manufacturer. I would think at least one collector or web page would list all the models they've made... Does any one here know of any Heritage experts out there? Maybe a Mom/Pop shop that's been a dealer since day one?
Dick Seacup Posted December 9, 2007 Posted December 9, 2007 I think pretty much all of the Heritage experts are to be found here, at Wolfe Guitars (Jay posts here occasionally) or are available for the cost of a phone call to the factory. I'll check my other hard drive and see if I saved a copy of that Terminator guitar. If I have it, I'll post it.
AnH555 Posted December 9, 2007 Posted December 9, 2007 Here it is. 103698791_lg.jpg 103698791_lg.jpg_thumb
Dick Seacup Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Here it is. Yep, that was it. Did you find it at Guitarget? Last time I searched for Heritage in used guitars, it only returned four and that wasn't one of them. If it's still there, that's been for sale since at least June/July.
Kazwell Posted December 10, 2007 Posted December 10, 2007 Didn't he say his had a hockey stick headstock with grover tuners "all on one side". If this is the closest thing there is to what he described then DanD is not talking about a Heritage.
AnH555 Posted December 11, 2007 Posted December 11, 2007 Dick - Yes, this photo came from the link you posted in what, September(?) when you were discussing the Terminator. I don't know why there wouldn't be one with a pointed headstock, Kaz. 3750_1.JPG 3750_1.JPG_thumb
Dick Seacup Posted December 11, 2007 Posted December 11, 2007 Dick - Yes, this photo came from the link you posted in what, September(?) when you were discussing the Terminator.I don't know why there wouldn't be one with a pointed headstock, Kaz. Man, look at all the break fixes on that neck! Someone needs to find a better luthier! ;D Yeah, it was a while ago when I was mulling that one over. I figured it would be neat to have if only for the 'rare bird' status. Never jumped on it, though.
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