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Have you 'mapleflamed' your Heritage 150?


james

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A mod suggested by mapleflame, a member at the LPF. The idea is to further Stainless Steel bridge posts into the body of the guitar for tonal change/improvement. I've done it with my R8 with good result, but am yet to try on my H150 CM Classic.

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Your R8 has an ABR-1 style bridge as do most of the "high end" Gbrand guitars. This has the bridge post going directly into the wood of the guitar face. Heritage uses a Nashville style bridge and the bridge posts go into threaded anchors which are inserted into the face of the guitar. The "mapleflame" trick wont work on a Heritage.

 

ABR-1:

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Nashville:

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I have an ABR-1 locking bridge on my Prospect. When it was built, heritage installed the faber SS conversion posts but the sent it with a tonepros Nashville. I decided OSB finish needed a gold bridge an tail. When I'm home during a warm sunny day, I'll take a photo. I had some observations on the change over.

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If I understand what you are saying, you are "bottoming out" the threaded posts into the body.

 

A pair of right-sized (length/thread/diameter) set screws under the Nashville posts can accomplish similar results.

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