They (Actually) Make A BETTER Les Paul Than Gibson Does.

[notbillgelder]

 

[Dick Seacup]

Surprised that he was so in love with the neck. But, perhaps that's my "backward looking" opinion, from when the neck carve you got depended entirely upon who did it. Which, actually, was kind of fun, it it's own way. Like that he points out that Heritage, operating out of the K'zoo plant actually has a longer, well, heritage building LPs than Gibson does. Except, for me, that kind of fell off when the OG owners stepped out. Not a knock on Pete Farmer, but he wasn't there when the original 50s LPs were being built, like, you know, the OG owners were. The line has been broken, in my mind. 

[bolero]

Yeah and once they cleaned the shop floor up, all that dust & clutter that had been laying around since the 50s was gone too!

Haha, no more dusty mojo...

I'll take the skills of someone who can tap tune & build a big hollowbody jazz guitar over a solid chunk of wood with a neck glued on, anyday. I think it's ludicrous how much 50s Les Paul's are worshipped, and priced, compared to the much more demanding & involved build of a hollowbody jazz gtr.

[bolero]

  ps the original owners were masters of building big hollowbodies, those were really Heritage's flagships IMO

[HANGAR18]

I just ran across this video today. Really interesting seeing a new Heritage fan in the making. I wonder if it was any HOC members bugging that guy to look into Heritage guitars. I guess we'll also need to wait till the honeymoon is over before we tell him about the Custom Core models. hahaha I wonder if he'll like those beefier necks on the CC models.

[TalismanRich]

I've noticed that Sweetwater has Heritage making some exclusive "custom shop" models.   There's one with the CC headstock and SD Antiquity II mini humbuckers.  They also have Custom Core with a Bigsby B7.

There's another that's Wine Red with a stinger, and the CC headstock and mini humbuckers.

[bolero]

As far as the vid: yep it's nice to see the H150 getting the cred it deserves. 114k views in 2 days? That's not a bad thing. I didn't read the comments probably entertaining though.

[rockabilly69]

To me all Les Pauls and H150s need to be taken on a case by case basis. They all sound different, my two H-150s are light years apart in tone, and so are my 4 Les Pauls. If I had to sell all but one of them, I would keep my 1960 Reissue Les Paul, it just has the best tone for the type of music that I play along with a very comfortable neck. And coming in second and third in neck shapes for my guitars are my Heritages. They are both medium C with my darkburst being a tad bigger. My Les Paul reissue necks are a bit too big. As for quality I had fret issues and nut issues on  both of my Heritages, and most pre band lab H150s I picked up around here had many of the same issues. But the cost of used H150s were so low they were an absolute bargain to someone like me who knows how to do fretwork. That said, since the Bandlab crew cleaned up the shop I'm seeing a much higher quality control on H150s. None that I have picked up have any fret/nut issues. I did see one H530 that had a badly placed bridge that couldn't be intonated, which was a heartbreaker because it belonged to my best friend and it sounded GREAT. The quality of the wood has consistently been good with Heritage on most every Heritage that I have picked up, all though many of the earlier sold bodies were pretty heavy.

So do I think Heritage builds a better Les Paul? Re-read my first sentence

 

Edited 12 hours ago by rockabilly69

[rockabilly69]

19 hours ago, TalismanRich said:

I've noticed that Sweetwater has Heritage making some exclusive "custom shop" models.   There's one with the CC headstock and SD Antiquity II mini humbuckers.  They also have Custom Core with a Bigsby B7.

There's another that's Wine Red with a stinger, and the CC headstock and mini humbuckers.

I thought the wine red one with the stinger was pretty cool. I've always been a Les Paul Deluxe fan!