A couple of good links

[FredZepp]

This tells the story of when Vince came in as an owner. And also some of the thoughts and philosophies of the original owners.

The article is from 2007 and really gives a lot of insight as to what is going on now..... I was going to post some quotes, but there are to many to edit the article. Great Read.

 

Article from 2007 HERITAGE GUITAR and their future

 

Here's a different one... from guitar world in russia.. I can't say what it says, but it has some cool pictures.

 

HERITAGE in Russia.... guitar world

[ronalr]

Thanks Fred...good stuff!!!

[bolero]

here's that russian page, hacked thru babelfish translator:

 

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...TrUrl=Translate

[Guido]

Thanks for sharing! That was a great read.

 

I didn't know that Heritage was prior closure in 2007. Unbelievable!!!

[tulk1]

Thanks for sharing! That was a great read.

 

I didn't know that Heritage was prior closure in 2007. Unbelievable!!!

 

Shortly after the inception of the HoC, and just before my joining, they had the fire which nearly shut them down. Well, it did shut them down for some time. They had offered the company up for sale, shut the doors, even posted on their website (such as it was) that they were in negotiations for selling. The boys did manage to reopen, clean up and start up again, altho' in quite a reduced capacity. Then along came Vince, who'd always loved Heritage and wanted to see it survive. He bought into the company and should probably take the greatest measure in what they are now. His one quote that I liked, which I'll paraphrase as I haven't reread the article, "computers? I couldn't find one computer in the whole shop". My next fav was, "orders? yeah, we'd find new orders sitting under a stack of papers".

 

So, how'd I do doing this from recall?

[Steiner]

So, how'd I do doing this from recall?

 

It is Peculiar how spot-on you can be.

[Ray]

Thank you Fred. Great story.

[blueox]

" . . . Here's a different one... from guitar world in russia.. I can't say what it says, but it has some cool pictures . . . "

 

The language of photography tells the story. It's nice to see the world wide coverage of Heritage.

[tulk1]

"Jim and Marv on the previous work in to shop, converting lumber into the extraordinarily broad spectrum of guitars."

 

What a cool way of putting it.

[FredZepp]

here's that russian page, hacked thru babelfish translator:

 

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...TrUrl=Translate

Thanks for the translate.... I love this line in their translation, it says it all....

"In all they have significant experiment in the area of [gitarostroeniya].... " ....Sounds right to me.

[Jazzerous]

This tells the story of when Vince came in as an owner. And also some of the thoughts and philosophies of the original owners.

The article is from 2007 and really gives a lot of insight as to what is going on now..... I was going to post some quotes, but there are to many to edit the article. Great Read.

 

Article from 2007 HERITAGE GUITAR and their future

 

Here's a different one... from guitar world in russia.. I can't say what it says, but it has some cool pictures.

 

HERITAGE in Russia.... guitar world

Thanks Fred for the info Articles!! Wow Makes me cherish my 575 all the more!!!

Mike

[FredZepp]

Gibson Factory Gets New Partner...Kalamazoo Gazette, October 30 2007

 

KALAMAZOO -- Heritage Guitar Inc. will keep making guitars the old-fashioned way, with its four original luthiers in the former Gibson Guitar factory on Kalamazoo's North Side.

 

Local attorney Vince Margol has been brought in as a partner in the 22-year-old company that halted operations this summer. Margol, a principal in Margol & Kirkpatrick PLC, now is president of the company, which reopened its Parsons Street factory Monday morning.

 

``After four months, every employee came back,'' Margol said Monday afternoon. ``We didn't lose a single one.''

 

Margol said he will focus on modernizing the business and let the four original owners, J.P. Moats, Bill Paige, Jim Deurloo and Marvin Lamb, concentrate on what they do best -- building guitars.

 

``These guys are fantastic luthiers,'' Margol said. But the four hadn't kept up with how the business world has changed, he said.

 

``They didn't have a computer in the place,'' he said. ``They just kept doing business the way they did it in the '50s'' when they started working for Gibson Guitar Corp.

 

Gibson left Kalamazoo in 1984 for Nashville, Tenn.

 

Margol said he hopes to increase the company's efficiency and double production from its current output of about 1,200 guitars a year. The company now has 20 workers. Since opening in 1985, Heritage has been based out of the former Gibson factory on Parsons Street, where guitars have been manufactured since 1917.

 

``We would need to get more room in the building. In a 100-year-old building, that can be difficult,'' he said. ``But whatever happens, we don't intend to leave Kalamazoo.''

[FrankV]

This is dynamite, thanks. I'm at work now, and if I start reading it I'll shoot the morning in the a_ _, so I'll have to come back to it.

[MatZen]

I love the history of these guitars. For me, it's part of the mystique.

[rjsanders]

xlnt. here's a different translation, complete w/vultures! (?!) (while searching the wayback machine for the original article...)

[FredZepp]

Translated Heritage by Russian Guitar World

 

Great pics and a wonderful enthusiasm for our Heritage Guitars in this russian article by Guitar World.

 

Article from 2007 HERITAGE GUITAR and their future

And again the 2007 article.