I Told This Company I Didn't Want To Keep This $4,000 Guitar. Here Is Why
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tbh not enough guitar players realize you can adjust your flat head screws on both pickups to finetune what tone you want to get, so if the bridge pickup is too thin, adjust the flat head screws on the E, A, D, G and that is one under rated way to make your pickups and guitar sound totally better..
Exactly! Old school way of making the guitar fit the sound in your head.
That adjustment has very little to do with tone, and much more to do with string to string volume. That is the reason that they are adjustable, to compensate for the varying string gauges and inconsistencies in the magnets or coils. It is meant to supplement the overall adjustability and height of the pickup itself, which definitely place a part in altering the sound, more specifically how much of the pickup's output is utilized. As a player and tech of over 30 years, a collector with dozens of pieces in my stable, and an employee of the Rio Grande pickup company in the 90s, I have experimented with this concept heavily.
@@shelbyavant5081 Does both. On a Les Paul raising the poles on the neck pickup can often clean up the mud with overdrive. Vintage teles with staggered poles sound different than flat. If you take a G&L ASAT you can adjust the poles to sound like a Broadcaster or a Sixties tele. Yes the balance is affected but it also drives the signal and changes the harmonic ring with the other string in how they ring. Same as raising or lowering the pickup. Magnetics do odd things.
@@kennygardner5041 Polite response, I edited my comment to be more accurate. Also you have excellent tempo, and a very nice right hand, sir.
@Phillip McKnight - Why not take your digital calipers and measure the fret heights of both Gibson and Heritage.
Or snap the headstock off and say "It's even more like a Gibson than ever!"
That was exactly what I was thinking. That way I'll know what frets to ask Heritage to put on mine when I buy one...but now I can't cuz I don't know.
This ain’t trogly’s guitar hour
I agree. Lighten the guitars and ill be interested!!!
Yes please
I really like both Heritage and G&L instruments. I hope they continue to grow and have success. I had hoped to tour the Kalamazoo factory before moving from Michigan to Arizona, but it didn't work out. I love the story behind how Heritage started. Maybe a video on that subject would do well.
$500 to relic a guitar. I'll fuck it up for free.
Just take your shirt off and play it in a hot summer. 😂
😂@@Stemma3
Hey its that guy
Personally its not even about the money, I personally think people who buy relic guitars are Posers, they want the look of they bought a vintage guitar or play worn it themselves, meh they can keep that garbage, the only thing I do like is when fender rolls the edges of fretboards as it actually makes it more comfortable to play and serves a purpose rather than just something visual.
So will I, just give me a few years to do it through normal use. 😁
RIP Dickey Betts ❤❤❤❤
Man… I didn’t know… man…
@@diasdie Time to put on 'In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed'.
Really oh man
@@stringrip Yeah… Man I really didn’t see it coming. Bless Mr DB.
Another legend disappears into the sunset.
Having played a bunch of 50’s Gibsons, the Heritage guitars are the closest. Old Gibsons had low frets like that too so it’s just how they make them in Kalamazoo.
Tokai Japan and their custom shop knocks it out of the park !
Just like a feeling, but knowing the history of Gibson with highs and lows thru the years, I believe that some of its former team that parted ways and founded Heritage guitars took with them the real Gibson essence. This Heritage to me looks and sounds "more Gibson than a Gibson", at about half the price nobody can beat that.
Great video Phil and thanks.
I used to think that way - "These are the people Gibson "abandoned" when the relocated to Nashville in 1983~ish." and "These are the people who made the golden era Gibsons." But now I take them on their own merit, the people that made the Golden Era Gibsons are long retired or with their creator, and that's also the same factory where the awful Norlin era Gibsons were made with the 4 piece plywood pancake bodies and the nasty sounding T-Top pickups (I know, they've tried to re-market all that stuff as classic now - like T-Tops), but growing up, any guitar expert would steer you away from 1970s Gibsons and Fenders as junk.. It took 30 years for Gibson to come back from that mess reputation~wise, and some people still say Gibson quality sucks despite it being amazing now. Not PRS amazing, but still great.
@@DennyBob521Thanks for your feedback. Yeah I agree on 70s guitars production flaws. For the most part they leave much to be desired, Gibson and Fender. I would believe it was just some runs in some years, I guess all about to get far ahead competing each other but manufacturing too fast, the quality control was overlooked notoriously like you would find in some Gibsons cracks on the neck joint or peeling off finish too easily, and Fender neck pockets uneven and poor neck fit. I would save most Les Paul Deluxe and also Telecaster Deluxe, but staying away from models from around '75 to '80 that show all these "fast job" flaws. I would say the case for Heritage they wanted to do things right from the very beginning, taking the necessary time for each guitar, so far I haven't seen or heard about these flaws in their production so hats off and great respect for Heritage.
I came across a 1978 Les Paul Standard way back in about 1987 at a pawn shop and it played amazing. I thought to myself, why does this play better than any other Les Paul I have ever played. As I brought up the guitar to the counter to buy it, the pawn shop owner who knew the history of the guitar said it had been refretted. I'm like, oh that makes sense. Turns out it was refretted with taller non original fret wire, of which i prefer.
I bought a 2015 N/R Firebird re-issue - the frets were ridiculously high, so I had to get them taken down, and re-profiled to something more suitable. In the '70s all my friends had low-fret Gibsons, since speed was their main requirement for getting about; it just shows how tastes change over time...
I appreciate your reviews.
Great info. Thanks. ✌️🎶
I have the same guitar, Heritage Custom Core H-150, but in cherry burst. It is excellent, and the top is stunning! Came off the line late January 2024. For what it's worth, i do not have any issues with the frets. They definitely feel like medium jumbos to me. Great video as always, Phil!
Yeah I have a Gibson with medium jumbos, and like Phil, I was also expecting larger frets. Now I wonder what Gibson considers small frets lol.
@@mikeomatic9905 I feel like the name "medium jumbo" is misleading. I agree they should be bigger than they are. I very much prefer Fender's "narrow tall" fret size on any USA Strat or Tele.
Awesome guitars made authentic at Kalamazoo. I want a LP jr. from heritage P-90s. Someday...
They at least make H150s with P90s now.
Hey Philip ❤, thx for the update ❤ . Tim piece is GENIUS 😮❤️🎸 . Bridge pickup sounds like a telecaster.
I have the H-150 Gold Top and it is here to stay. I was able to compere it here amongst some other "custom shop" level guitars and this was a clear winner.
Dang sounds incredible great playing.. I may part with my O1 standard.. thanks for this.👍
I recently picked up an H-150 custom core, and I happen to be a big fan of the frets as they are. I also learned as a kid on a 12 string with a neck bow so I crush the strings down.
The quality of the sound of the guitar is just on another level from anything else I have ever had. I am a huge fan of the 225 pickups. I’m considering keeping an eye out for an H-535 CC rather than a standard to stick with those pickups.
Understandable. Low frets are a deal breaker for me.
Unbelievable a company like this hadn't picked up on that over the years. I have sold 70s LP customs because of the low frets because it ruins the guitar for me. I can't live with them.
A very close old friend of mine who passed away had a signature model Blind Kahuna Les Paul made exclusively for him by Heritage. He was one of the finest bluesman on the planet RIP Chris Bovard 😢 He played on a Magnum Pi episode back in the 80s
My dirty lemon burst standard is my favorite guitar. Highly recommend. I own a “play authentic”, an Eastman SB59 and a few others. The Heritage is awesome.
1998 H150CM in vintage faded sunburst here. Came factory with Duncan '59 pickups, nashville type bridge and standard stop bar tailpiece. It weighs just a smidge over 9lbs with Grover Rotomatics (heavy!) and heavy stop bar. Swapping an aluminum stop bar and vintage style tuners would put it under 9lbs.
I LOVE the red back with dirty lemon burst!! one of my local shops (twin towns guitars) has about a dozen heritage guitars on their wall... they are FANTASTIC. lower frets don't bother me at all as I have a '78 deluxe "fretless wonder"!! one of those might be mine one of these days...
I've got a Heritage H140, which is lighter than the average Les Paul by quite a bit (because it is thinner) and it IS magical. The sound is wonderful. The frets on mine are low too, but I like that, it plays great. It sings! I was never a fan of high frets, so the feel of the Heritage was what I was looking for. At this point it has been heavily gigged and is pretty road worn. Love your guitars and they will love you back.
Entirely agree about the sound. The pickups are definitely on the money, I hope they have the recipe for them stored away. The clean is sweet, reminds me of Atlantic Rhythm Section sounds and Charlie Daniels tones (all of which I love). It's a very classic early 1970s rock sound with gain as well, definitely the sound I seek in Les Pauls. That's a sound type I've always sought but simple can't find anymore in almost any Gibson Les Paul. This guitar in a three-pickup 'Custom' version with a proper tremolo, and coil-taps on all the pickups, would be a dream come true. That would get closer to the Alan Parsons Project lead tones that I love (Ian Bairnson that is). I would buy that instrument without hesitation. But yeah, the fingers have to clear the fretboard. Would love a tapped triple mini-humbucker version of this guitar too. What a sound that would make. Lovely instrument! Well done Heritage.
Man, I thought the same thing when I tried the H-150 CC. I thought “not immediately bonding with it” - don’t drop 4 grand. But I loved the way it looked so much I bought it. And after a day or so I didn’t even notice the fret issue again. Even played it back to back with my R9 and I love ‘em both - but the Heritage is new go to.
I agree 100% I love the look and its awesome but I hate small frets - I would need to refret out the box.
You're right Phil, the pickups in that Heritage are _outstanding!_
They seem to have the balance and voice of those old PAF's, the sound that they acquire over lots of time and slight & slow de-gaussing. Many describe the sound as a "Tele-on-steroids" lol...
Glad I saw this. I've been interested in Heritage for a while but haven't seen one to feel the neck. Thanks for answering some questions. I'm just glad you didn't say fretless wonder.
I bought my first Heritage H140 back in 1988. It's still a killer guitar!
After hearing the bridge pickup- sounds like a Tele - the tone is what I hoped for from my LP Signature. I may have to sell my 120 th Anniversary LP and get one. Thanks for the Demo.
At time stamp 9:40 you sounded like you were about to play the lead intro from interstate love song! Beautiful guitar!
In 2008, I picked up a three-pickup H-150 Heritage in mint condition for $1500 and flipped it. Walnut brown. Flipping gorgeous. To this day, it's still the only three-pickup of theirs I've ever seen. One of the best-sounding guitars I've ever heard. Still regret selling it.
What a phenomenal review Phil, your videos always amaze me whether I agree or not, just great. I have several Les Pauls and once I got my aged Heritage H-150 I stopped chasing after my ideal LP. That was it. The tone is better, manufacturing quality was above and beyond my most expensive Gibson and stays in tune better than any other guitar I own. It's a real shame more people don't know they have such alternatives and your video is of great value and a service to the community.
Great guitar made in my state about 3 hours from my home. It's kind of a bummer if they say that they are equipped with jumbo frets and they aren't. I don't need one, but I sure do want one! I prefer the plain top models these days.
the pickguard is ugly too. The fact is Gibson got everything right in the 50s. Any changes to that are not good
@@uv77mc85 Heritage can't do an exact copy. I don't mind the pickguard. I prefer an LP w/o a pickguard anyway, if the top's nice enough.
@@uv77mc85Well, except for the awful heel that restricts upper fret access. Then there's the headstock with the string pull to to sides that negatively affects tuning.
My local shop carries them. Played quite a few and walked away with a 530, definitely my favorite guitar now!
I have an H-150 Custom Core Gold Top w/ P90s and I absolutely love it. I have a Gibson Les Paul Custom Shop R9 (actually spec'ed as a transition from R9 to R0, so with a slightly slimmer neck) and I absolutely think Heritage guitars are all that and a bag of chips. Agree about preferring chambered and/or slightly taller frets, but neither of those things were gatekeepers to me keeping my H-150.
I absolutely like that color and design of the head stock , the sound is nice and warm amazing guitar
3:20 - I'm always thinking of guitar designs and I came up with that pickguard design a long time ago. I also came up with and cut out the design of the Dean Cadillac LP shape on a 2" thick piece of wood I had lying around, but that was as far as I got with that project. I'm pretty sure that this happens to a lot of like-minded people though.
Great show - honest and informative.
Awesome guitar and thank you for your honesty
The pickups sound really good! Bridge isn't harsh or nasal, neck has good clarity, not wooly.
Great response from Heritage! What size fret wire would be recommended? By Phil and Heritage......
It comes with medium jumbo jescar frets that are Plek'd......
Link to model shows solid body. 8 lbs 10 oz......
Hi- its been a while since i watched ( i cant play guitar) but i see you have upgraded your studio, walls, lights, etc. It looks great. (from your "neighbor" Dino in Fountain Hills.)
I'm in the market for a Les Paul but can't spend over 1,000 and I'm not sure what to go with. I'm considering either a PRS SE Singlecut McCarty594, a used 2023 Epiphone '59, or a used Gibson Tribute. I'd like the newer Epiphone '59 model with the updated pickups, headstock and VOS finish, but I can't justify 1,300 for one and I doubt it'll show up for 1,000 on Reverb anytime soon so I'll probably go with one of the other 3 models I listed.
That same price barrier is also why when I was recently in the market for a Les Paul with a Floyd Rose, I bought a used discontinued Epiphone Plus Top Pro/FX for 600 on Reverb instead of 1,300 for a new Ruby Alex Lifeson model from Sweetwater. I really wanted the Lifeson model, but 1,300 for a Chinese Epiphone is too much. Unless the ruby finish is made with actual rubies, or they're paying Alex Lifeson considerably more than they did with the previous model, I just don't see how they can justify that price. I can understand 1,300 for the new Epiphone 355 model, or maybe even for the new Les Paul with VOS finish, but not when the guitar still has Epiphone pickups, even if it does have a Floyd Rose. A Floyd Rose doesn't cost nearly as much as those $500 Gibson pickups from the newer Epiphone Les Pauls.
I’ve been playing Heritage guitars for years. The Heritage headstock has a straighter pull on the strings and the guitar stays in tune better. Once the strings are broken in on either of my two H-150’s they rarely need to be retuned. I love the necks.
This is an exciting guitar - I'm a big fan of Heritage, having bought a new used H-535 with medium jumbo frets, and much happier buying one from an ethical company with strong QC. The frets are medium jumbo, which I thought most/all Heritage guitars were, and they seem reasonably tall, though I'd love jumbo frets like I have on my Strat. It'd be great to know what the fret measurements are on this one, as well as the one that you'll receive soon. BTW, the used H-535 was a financial stretch for me - I wanted one because I'm a Justin Hayward fan, and I'm very happy with it - but I'd love a standard H-150 with Heritage pickups (or Lollar) and isn't a back breaker. Or perhaps I should get a lighter PRS S2 McCarty with the US pickups - I'd be curious how it compares with the Heritage.
Custom Core are intentionally lower weight, target is 8.5 pounds or less. Chambering isn’t necessary.
A actually bought a standard model H150, frets must be different because they are large frets. Mine was a Sweetwater exclusive in Oxblood. I love how it plays.
That Heritage is a beautiful guitar. If I was in the market, it would be in the top.
Sold most of my Gibsons, save one with P90s, and bought a cheap Agile.
I had an Agile years ago and thought they were great for the $s. They still are. Real maple cap, good tuners, ebony board, nice binding, etc. Put some nice pickups in it and it's a great guitar.
I had a 98 R8 with a baseball bat neck that I loved. It looks just like this top. Sold it years ago and have a plain top R8 that I also love. Superb looking guitar.
I can see why you prefer taller frets...you play lightly on you finger tension..Great sounding guitar...thank you
Started playing jumbo frets in the mid 80's and still do, I don't get why anyone would want tiny frets.
Learned to play on a ‘77 Les Paul Deluxe with half worn but well crowned Low-Wide frets, as well as a ‘77 Les Paul Special Double cutaway with similar frets. I get along with frets of all types including Jumbos, but Low-Wides are my happy place.
I would require stainless steel frets on a custom guitar. I’m gonna wear down nickel-silver tiny frets.
I haven’t seen SS frets on any Gibson or Fender custom guitars.
Because notes bend out of tune with huge frets
I like tiny frets and have bought n sold guitars on that alone
Phil, I call that finger drag. I agree, for me, those vintage frets don't cut it.
The only thing I have been able to do to help that, is to surface the fingerboard by scraping with a razor blade, which, imho, makes it smoother than sanding.
Wow Phillip that is an amazing sounding Axe and the harmonics are so sweet. ❤
Great, great guitars but also had the fret rub thing with both of the Custom Cores I bought.
Great video, I would totally consider a chambered Les Paul with taller frets
Sounds excellent with that bit of OD. Ive played some 2500 to 4500 Gibsons at the store but never was tempted. I'd love to try one of these in the 4k range. Gimmie the pups and lightweight. Keep the top.
Good honest review. I love it.
Watched this live, I would definitely be interested if they would chamber their guitars because I could find nothing close to 7 1/2 pounds.
My CC is 8lb2oz, all the CC’s are under a certain weight not too much heavier than that, I just can’t remember what it is exactly atm…
That’s a major part of the price difference, as I know it, just selecting the lighter woods..
I just don’t know how much impetus they’d have to chamber just to shave 1/2 to 1lb off.
But i bet you could ask them to as well, they started selling directly a few years back and will do some small stuff for no extra charge even
@@jjclem8759 I looked at quite a few of them on Sweetwater’s site and they were all at 8 lbs. 10 oz. or above except for one Ebony and that was 8 lbs. 6 oz. I have neck and shoulder issues and something below 7 1/2 pounds would be ideal for me. All in all they are lighter than Gibson LP’s.
Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work, you can always hit them with it.
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Jesus Tyrone, things come from behind when your in reverse!
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I think it is awesome love the pickups
I've got one of those vietnamese emeral IYV les pauls and it's got a wider cutaway too, but you can't really tell unless you put it next to a gibson les paul standard. it's definitely easier to play though
Had one heritage, the 335 style. The guitar sounded good clean. For distortion was little bit muddy even when swapped with lollar humbuckers. The intonation wasn’t stellar in my opinion also. Tried tried but also after all these issues headstock and looks also ended up getting inside my mind. Lived in New York for a while and a lot of guys were trying heritage and lots of them sold them too.. that was like ten years ago and at the time they weren’t expensive as a Gibson but still a $2200 guitar. I understand they have their custom shop right now I will give em a go one day!
For a guitarists wih vicegrip fingerings, instead of a light touch, would the low frets help mitigate pressing chords out of tune?
I have two Les Pauls and 4 Heritages. Two are
H-555s and one is a double cut. The H-157CM I have is a Custom, so their Les Paul. It stacks up in every way compared to my Gibsons. I think Heritage make a fantastic guitar and I'm glad I got mine before their prices started to climb!
Try a medium width, tall height fret job. Makes both gibson and heritage play really nice.
I just love the tone of that guitar! The bursts, 1957-1960, when they got the design sorted, were some of the best sounding guitars ever. The "wood buyer" for Gibson had found a large quantity of mahogany harvested in the 1890's. So the bursts were built with ~70 year old mahogany to start with!! There was even some left, and a guy bought it at auction. I think his name was Max or something like that? He built some guitars from it, and turned some of it into "kit's", that some reputable luthier bought and built. There is a great video at the NRG channel, where Norm and the other burst brain trust explain all that. Sorry this got long, if your still here thanks for reading!! 8) --gary
Maik, nice tones. One of the hardest things, for me, is hearing the broken in sound. Good speakers sound better as they get used more, kinda' like how salsa and chili (soup) taste better many hours after they have been made. The flavors take time to develop. The nerd living inside of me goes crazy with all the variables. I enjoyed your comparison. It would be interesting to see if you played them each for a long period and then did it again how much different the counds would be, but it would take months to get them all broken in really well. Sorry, I'm nerdy like that. Thanks for the good video again.
I know that pain of an otherwise exceptional guitar not working out. I won a Heritage H535, and I ended up having to sell it because the neck was too wide. I play a lot of chord voicings that require my thumb over the top of the neck, and I was getting a lot of pain that I don't normally experience. Otherwise, it was an exceptional guitar that I was really hoping to make memories with.
Great video Phil. Heritage makes some fine guitars. For myself I like the Gibson wonder frets. Have you ever played on a scalloped neck? They are pretty cool.
I have a Gibson Standard 2008 with weight relief and I love it. Can totally relate with the weight thing. Heritage seems to be really cool, doubt if Gibson would have done the same.
I bought a limited edition H150 for about 3200 new. I agree about the frets but I love this guitar. It's the best in all respects and although I don't play it all the time I wouldn't part with it. The build quality is exceptional and it plays like a dream.
the pickups sound sweet. really surprised with the bridge pickup.
that heritage is damn hot man , that bridge pickup is warm , not overly warm , slight bit of treb and not muddy. The you hit that Hotter neck , I feel its almost exactly the same as the bridge but a tad bit more bass , and then they just made it about 125 percent hotter than the bridge. Astounding and rich sound on both pickups. Oh man those Little Wing vibes..........dude , killer guitar. Jimmi would be happy to play that over his strat.
Shame the frets are small because it really does impede the smooth ride if you love bending a lot. Maybe for that price you could just request med jumbo instead? That top looks great. I always preferred the look of those trapezoid inlays instead of the rectangular ones.
Hey Heritage - nice guitar!! Hey Phillip - nice job of playing it!!
That's why Tokai and Eastman are great alternatives to the US made brands. They can be ordered with many different modern specs not offered by Gibson or Heritage.
They cost half as much.
That Les Paul has a special sound. It rings like a bell! What a beast.
Everything but the Headstock (Which I'm actually cool with, it has it's own thing) looks and sounds like what Gibson should be doing on their Traditional/Vintage Line. The fact that both you and Tim Pierce vouched for it and gave the SAME pointers tells me this is the guitar Gibson must be afraid of. Excellent video, as always.
I love the Heritage head stock, it’s the inverse of the Gibson open book headstock.
it's a strange thing about frets..
not only the height and width counts, but also the shape..
and it depends on your personal style and on your personal fingers :)
regarding Les Pauls I love my 2016 Tribute Gold Top Gibson, it has the perfect Frets (for me).. pretty tall, that makes bending and vibrato more easy for me... I once had a Gibson Midtown, that sounded great, but had more low frets... maybe great for Jazz guys who slide much upon the fretboard, but not my thing... it's all personal!
In shocked that for a chambered/ weight reliefived Les Paul, that it still came in at 7.5lbs.
I got a Gibson 60s standard Unburst (great AA-figured top…looks like a mix between a lemmon burst and a honey burst lol great visually, had grover tuners, also the knobs personally i like better with the 60s reflective knobs (the sides match the body, but with the silver hardware, i find it looks like it matches up beauty. All that being said, my Non-Weight relief Gibson 60s LP standard unburst only weighs in at 8.5 lbs (been told i got lucky).
Love the 60s slim profile neck vs rhe wider 50s style neck and i prefer the 50s alnico 2 BB’s vs the 61’ BB alnico 5’s, which i ended up swapping out for a new set of Seymour Duncan Slash 2.0 alnico 2 humbuckers (i guess what slash legit has in many of his guitars because he felt his original Seymour Duncan APH-2’s were slightly quieter then the newer SD slash 2.0’s…they sound like a pefect les paul fit, they handle gain and pedals great, but are not overkill and they also clean up nicely. Side note, i know my guitar and the 50s standard both have 50s style wiring & orange drop caps., ive only swapped the 61 BB pups for the SD slash 2.0’s and happy with the swap but the 61’ BBs do grow on you (mostly rhe neck pup).
Also i would prefer if these ‘Med/Jumbo’ stock frets were a little taller, but theyre not low enough that it bothers me (i play with low action with a set or 9 guage strings). Overall i have a 2004 beautyful herritage cherry SG (490r/498t) which plays and also sounds great!
Out of all my guitars, ive always been drawn to burst Gibson LP standards that are bursts & im very happy with mine and rhe pup upgrade…although i still feel easiest on my SG, but after 20 yrs, im not gonna feel as comfortable (eapecially playing high notes and having your hand get closer to the heel, takes a bit to get used to the harder accessability on the LP , but just love my new 2023 Lp, i really wanted a burst or thay honey/lemmonish type burst, snd i think the SD slash 2.0 alnico 2’s are an upgrade then the stoxk 61 burtbuckers. Really wanted my LP to have old school set up (2 proper sounding humbuckers with a simple 50s style wiring and no push pull or weight relief , etc). I feel like besieses my neck profille, i tried to find and swap pups ro make it feel and sound like a solid original burst
Not sure if I have played a guitar with low frets, always been medium or jumbo
I played a used one of these a few years ago and it sounded massive. It was a steal at $1500.
Heritage can experiment with a slightly shorter headstock while maintaining the shape. That will work surely.
What color/model is that bronze strat behind you? It looks sick
Beautiful guitar, and total class act by Heritage. I prefer their headstock shape as well.
I am from Detroit, Michigan. I love your content & I would love to have one of these solid body guitars from Heritage. I swear it's a personal goal of mine after spending 8 weeks in U of M hospital. I'm thankful I learned how to walk all over.
What is that metallic red/orange guitar to the left???
Unfortunately, the second you walk out of the shop with that axe, it's instantly loses a ton of its value, much more than a Gib. Try to find a buyer for a used Heritage LP. Too much competition and the market is flooded.
Theres been a Heritage for sale on my local Craigs list for four years
That's really cool of Heritage to not only have no issue with you telling people you refretted the guitar, but actually making you a second one.
The boomers paying $6k for a Gibson or a copy don't use the frets or care about the frets. It's like Jay Leno discovering that one of the cars he has stuck in a garage has a problem with the wipers - he's never going to use them.
@michael1 Sorry what? I'm a boomer and I own a custom shop Les Paul and I play it everyday. Honestly you guys with your anti-Gibson memes are getting a bit tiring. With all due respect. If Gibson had never created the guitars they did, none of these other guitars would ever follow up. They were the original creators of these guitars for God's sake.
@@Joe-mz6dc Don't be stupid. For sure, if Gibson had never created the Les Paul there wouldn't be a bunch of copies of it - but the idea there wouldn't have been guitars is too stupid even for a boomer.
I will say I've owned Gibsons, Epiphones, Schecters, BC Richs, ESPs/LTDs,Charvels,Fenders, Ibanezs,Washburn, my Gibson turned out to be a $1,400 POS
@@Joe-mz6dc I agree, Gibson set the standard, and I still play them! But mine don't have the short frets, I understand people not liking that. But I get frustrated with people talking about Gibsons having tuning issues and stuff, and it's never been an issue to me. My Les Paul stays in tune as well as my Strat. And nothing sounds like a Gibson! Except a Heritage lol
Personally I like the headstock. Just think the truss cover could be a bit more ornate but that’s all nit-picking.
Stunning instrument!!!
I have a Les Paul Tribute that is chambered and 7.4 pounds. The guitar does everything a good LP should do. Great sustain and harmonic richness. Excellent intonation all over the neck.
It’s my go to when I get calls for session work and a good humbucker tone is required.
4:41 Probably vintage thin 6320 are my favorite
That’s an incredible looking and sounding guitar! Sounds like Heritage is really responsive too. Is it an optical illusion or are the pickup surrounds and the pickguard different colors? 🤔
The frets on my '69 Gibson LP Classic (first year they reissued it, iiric) were so low that while I loved everything else about it, I found it to be not so great for rock and I sold it in '79. The original LP Customs were called "fretless wonder" for a reason; back in the 50s people were using wound third strings and they just didn't bend notes that much. With that setup you could get incredibly low action, and at the time that was a bragging rights point. But when Gibson reissued the guitar, it came with the original paper-thin frets. AFAIK, the only guitars with lower frets were the original Mosrites, and I had one of those too, and found it pretty difficult to play for that reason. I hope Heritage takes your suggestion seriously.
I'm honestly considering one of these, I actually don't mind smaller frets and I prefer a les paul to be around 8 pounds so it all sounds good to me. Also I've noticed all heritage guitars seem to have stunning tops, can't say the same for gibson at twice the price..
Thanks Phil the truth is always smart!!! Great commentary!
Can someone name the brown guitar on wall? Top row, second from left, just above the green strat. Thank You!
I realize these are just two examples, and some of it may be lighting, but I much prefer the darker, "wetter" fretboard on the Heritage, almost ebony - always a good thing. The Gibson almost looks like pao ferro and all dried out. Also, on the Heritage, since there are so few nits to pick, I'll give the small stuff a go: tripping my OCD, the one feature I really do not like is that truss rod access cover. To me it is not elegant, and therefore not in keeping with the rest of the package. Other makes me have the same aspect, but for some reason standing out on this - looks like those screws need to be countersunk (or smaller) for one thing, but more than that, the bold outlined geometric shape shouts way too much for a feature that, IMO , should be much less visible. I'd look to replace that right off with a reconfigured, thinner-or no-outlined piece.
I found it funny that you found the Fender headstock shape ugly, but don't mind the Heritage headstock. While I'm not a big fan of the small Strat headstock, I love the oversized Fender headstock from the late 60's/70's, and the Jaguar headstock shape. However, for me the Heritage headstock shape is a deal breaker.
I also like smaller, more vintage sized fretwire. I've refretted a number of my guitars that had jumbo frets with Stewmac 0148 fretwire (.039" crown height x .084" wide), and also use it on all of my personal builds.
Different strokes for different folks I guess!
Cheaper than a used gibson r9. So crazy. Also you know your stuff, chambered body and higher frets sound like the right idea. Would love to own one one day since I'm from Michigan.
Is there a string gauge size that could counteract the small frets like those and make it feel more like a regular Gibson? I have a Mint Gibson Blueberry Burst Trad Pro V that came with super small vintage frets like that. I've never felt frets like them and I'm not sure I can ever get used to them. None of the Gibsons I own or have owned have ever had these tiny frets. The action is crazy low and easy and everything is Great about it except for the thin low frets. I got the guitar cheap at around $1,600 which is cheap because they retail for $2,500, so I'll likely try to trade up to another higher end Standard with more regular sized frets hopefully.
how do they compare to med jumbo's?