Kamron Posted May 17, 2010 Posted May 17, 2010 I'm hoping this community can help me. I've been a very proud owner of this guitar for 5 years now. It has been so great that it is now the ONLY electric guitar I own and play on a regular basis. I've emailed Heritage but have yet to hear back so here I am. I'm trying to get replacement info on this for insurance. I believe it is one of the older models Heritage made ser# B03301. I read once that the B represented the year and I think it was '84 or '85 (I know they didn't open for business until '85). Any help is greatly appreciated. I have until June 6th to repair or replace and need to decide. Thanks in advance! I hope you can see this pics:
big bob Posted May 17, 2010 Posted May 17, 2010 Oh god... now that Image will be forever burned in my mind... Heritage can replace the neck for around 600.00 new neck, set, painted whole tamale. I would imagine you could have the neck repaired as well. Also there are two 170's on the bay now, one is a c code.. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=280506141339
TalismanRich Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 Smurf's 140 suffered a similar fate recently and I believe he's getting the headstock repaired. Several different luthiers were suggested in that thread. I recommend you read through that one. http://www.heritageownersclub.com/forums/i...?showtopic=8651 A good luthier can repair it although it may not be cosmetically perfect. The type of break you have may actually be structurally stronger with the proper gluing. With the black on the face and the stinger, the amount of exposed "wood" will be much less. The factory can repair it, as they said, it will run somewhere around the $600 range. Good luck.
brentrocks Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 Sorry about your 170. That should Be repairable. A good luthier should make it like new.
Dick Seacup Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 I wonder...if you send in the original headstock with the guitar, will they ink the new one with the old serial?
barrymclark Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 Just awful. Beautiful guitar. This is starting to seem like a trend after Smurfs guitar.
fxdx99 Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 I'm hoping this community can help me. I've been a very proud owner of this guitar for 5 years now. It has been so great that it is now the ONLY electric guitar I own and play on a regular basis. I've emailed Heritage but have yet to hear back so here I am. I'm trying to get replacement info on this for insurance. I believe it is one of the older models Heritage made ser# B03301. I read once that the B represented the year and I think it was '84 or '85 (I know they didn't open for business until '85). Any help is greatly appreciated. I have until June 6th to repair or replace and need to decide. Thanks in advance! I hope you can see this pics: Yikes, that is one ugly break - sorry about your guitar. For insurance, it's probably the repair value and loss of market value since a repaired guitar is roughly half the value of an unrepaired guitar (as I understand it). So, if your guitar was worth say 1300 on the market, the repaired value may go to say 700, so you've lost 600. Add the 600 for repair and you're out 1200. Take away your deductable and somewhere in that neighborhood... above values an example, don't know how close they are to reality.
Millennium Maestro Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 I've got a roll of duct tape I could loan you.... thats the musicians fix all... haven't you heard. I have been there, I feel your pain.
Thundersteel Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 BCR Greg over at the Hamer Fan Club works miracles like that--too bad he isn't fond of The Heritage, though. Check out this thread on his repair of a Hamer headstock--incredible!
Kamron Posted May 18, 2010 Author Posted May 18, 2010 Thanks for the advise all. If the insurance company ends up replacing I'm probably gonna go for a 150 or possibly another guitar I wont mention on this site.
H Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 Thanks for the advise all. If the insurance company ends up replacing I'm probably gonna go for a 150 or possibly another guitar I wont mention on this site. If you're insured then repairing the headstock is a bad thing ONLY if you want to sell it in the future. With a stinger headstock you'll hardly notice the break and, as others have said here, structurally it will probably be stronger. I'd keep it and make it a player...
tbonesullivan Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 yikes. insurance will cover that? that's not a "bad" break, as it doesn't intrude into the truss rod cavity as much as I can tell, which would make it a lot more complicated of a repair. where are you located?
FredZepp Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 Tragic photos.... OMG.... But you can bring it back to life. I've got a LP Special that has a repair and on that one you can barely see it even when looking closely in bright light. No problems with ability to function at all...
Kamron Posted May 19, 2010 Author Posted May 19, 2010 @tbone - I'm actually in Michigan about 50 minutes south of the Heritage factory. After a lot of thought I really would rather fix this guitar as I have grown so close to it over the years. I have emailed Heritage twice about getting a repair and haven't heard back yet. I think I'm going to contact this BCR Greg guy as the work he has posted is excellent.
High Flying Bird Posted May 19, 2010 Posted May 19, 2010 @tbone - I'm actually in Michigan about 50 minutes south of the Heritage factory. After a lot of thought I really would rather fix this guitar as I have grown so close to it over the years. I have emailed Heritage twice about getting a repair and haven't heard back yet. I think I'm going to contact this BCR Greg guy as the work he has posted is excellent. Man, that photo made my balls slap together like a pair of Clackers. Heritage isn't the most web friendly business out there but they are people friendly. If you are only 50 miles away get into the car and drive up. Sorry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers
FrankV Posted May 20, 2010 Posted May 20, 2010 Hey Bird, that's a blast from the past! I still can't believe parents let their kids play with those things! My brother and I had them going like the hammers of hell inches from our faces! Good times!!
smurph1 Posted May 24, 2010 Posted May 24, 2010 Smurf's 140 suffered a similar fate recently and I believe he's getting the headstock repaired. Several different luthiers were suggested in that thread. I recommend you read through that one. http://www.heritageownersclub.com/forums/i...?showtopic=8651 A good luthier can repair it although it may not be cosmetically perfect. The type of break you have may actually be structurally stronger with the proper gluing. With the black on the face and the stinger, the amount of exposed "wood" will be much less. The factory can repair it, as they said, it will run somewhere around the $600 range. Good luck. Yes..my 140 was sucessfully repaired..and I'm playing her like crazy again..i totally empathize with you, I actually cried when I broke mine..It was my own stupidity that caused it..That looks like a clean break, so it should be repairable..Hang in there!!
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