Heritage Thinline Series

[skydog]

Does anyone have any info on this model. Is it still available?

[soybean]

Ummm… more info please. Thinline is usually a type of guitar, not a model. For instance Gibson, Eastman and Epiphone make thinline guitars. Heritage makes many.

[skydog]

The model I was wondering about was listed as a 535 thinline series. the fact that the seller mentioned thinline led me to believe that it was a distinct line different than the usual 535. yes, no, maybe?

[AnH555]

I think "thinline" has become sort of a generic term, that originally Gibson came up with. The ES 335 is a Gibson thinline. But Heritage makes some solidbodies that are thinner than standard.

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[Dick Seacup]

Is that a 140 with a Bigsby? 

[AnH555]

Yup. It's green, too. (fleabay)

[soybean]

the fact that the seller mentioned thinline led me to believe that it was a distinct line different than the usual 535. yes, no, maybe?

That should be the same as a regular 535.

[doggy1972]

My H170 has the thinner body. I think the term thinline usually applies to semis (as in tele thinline) but, I could be wrong. That 140 looks nice.

Any more pics of it?

[AnH555]

OK.  It's up for auction on ebay, if you want the whole story.

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[DrFrankStein]

That 140 has plenty of (bad pun warning) VIBE!

[jacques]

Just look at the subtlety with which AnH555 launches his advertisement for a green H140 with Bigsby. ;D

 

I am not going to buy it (no money and too far away) but I sometimes secretly wonder how such a bigsby equipped Les Paul-style (or a 535 thinline for that matter) sounds. I recently got hooked on a tremolo when I take the lead and since then my beautiful hardtails are not played as much.

 

Anybody have clips with such noise?

[yoslate]

I'm normally a traditionalist, but that green 140 is really tough lookin'!  To play anything like that out, I'd have to grow an Eddie Cochran DA and show up in a chopped, channeled '50 Merc!