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Does anyone have one? are they any different than gibson? Do you like it?
glip22":2et6flix said:Supposedly very high quality guitars. I believe they had a fire. Before or around this time they had Paul Cochrane designing and building some cool amps. I owned one. Paul said they went out of business because they couldn't fill the back order of guitars. They invested allot in the amp line but no dealers would buy the amps until the back orders were filled. They folded after this. Something along these lines.The guitars have a following and a great rep.
Maybe it was just the amps.snowdog":cplru38i said:glip22":cplru38i said:Supposedly very high quality guitars. I believe they had a fire. Before or around this time they had Paul Cochrane designing and building some cool amps. I owned one. Paul said they went out of business because they couldn't fill the back order of guitars. They invested allot in the amp line but no dealers would buy the amps until the back orders were filled. They folded after this. Something along these lines.The guitars have a following and a great rep.
Never heard anything about them folding, the website is still up.
http://www.heritageguitar.com/indexe.html
Paul had nothing to do with the guitars...the Heritage amp shop was located in around Nashville. Not sure what Paul is doing these days besides building pedals. Great guy...we went to college together. He was a GA for the teachers in the Recording Industry Management program....knew more than the professors at the time. This is well, well before Pro Tools etc... Paul taught me how to splice 2" Tape lol. Loaned me his Aspen Pittman Tube book...which I still got. As a matter of fact Paul was the one who added the bias adjustment on my old 5150 and schooled me on just how close the circuit was to an SLO. Helluva guitar player as well.snowdog":3eejtkia said:glip22":3eejtkia said:Supposedly very high quality guitars. I believe they had a fire. Before or around this time they had Paul Cochrane designing and building some cool amps. I owned one. Paul said they went out of business because they couldn't fill the back order of guitars. They invested allot in the amp line but no dealers would buy the amps until the back orders were filled. They folded after this. Something along these lines.The guitars have a following and a great rep.
Never heard anything about them folding, the website is still up.
http://www.heritageguitar.com/indexe.html
That's cool. The Heritage Colonial I owned was a very cool amp with patented features.jabps":30st27sy said:Paul had nothing to do with the guitars...the Heritage amp shop was located in around Nashville. Not sure what Paul is doing these days besides building pedals. Great guy...we went to college together. He was a GA for the teachers in the Recording Industry Management program....knew more than the professors at the time. This is well, well before Pro Tools etc... Paul taught me how to splice 2" Tape lol. Loaned me his Aspen Pittman Tube book...which I still got. As a matter of fact Paul was the one who added the bias adjustment on my old 5150 and schooled me on just how close the circuit was to an SLO. Helluva guitar player as well.snowdog":30st27sy said:glip22":30st27sy said:Supposedly very high quality guitars. I believe they had a fire. Before or around this time they had Paul Cochrane designing and building some cool amps. I owned one. Paul said they went out of business because they couldn't fill the back order of guitars. They invested allot in the amp line but no dealers would buy the amps until the back orders were filled. They folded after this. Something along these lines.The guitars have a following and a great rep.
Never heard anything about them folding, the website is still up.
http://www.heritageguitar.com/indexe.html
Actually is been several years since I've seen him...we used to live about 3 blocks away from each other. Last I saw him we were talking about the JVM...which I had just started playing. Plus I had a dead Marshall in the garage I wanted him to tinker with. We talked about Heritage doing something a little more high gain...or I did lol...never really got a read on if he wanted to add something in that direction. I always took it from Paul he was much more into the classic power tube grind as opposed to pre-amp. At least that's the way I took it. I'm pretty sure...don't hold me to it though but Pauls main rig for a long time was a Boogie Mark series and a Boogie 2x12 cab. Whatever the mark series was back in the late 80's. And he had this heavily modded Ampeg V4...most of his guitars were stuff he put together. Maybe he'll chime in here if he's a member...I thought he was at one point. Oh well.glip22":1u504t57 said:That's cool. The Heritage Colonial I owned was a very cool amp with patented features.jabps":1u504t57 said:Paul had nothing to do with the guitars...the Heritage amp shop was located in around Nashville. Not sure what Paul is doing these days besides building pedals. Great guy...we went to college together. He was a GA for the teachers in the Recording Industry Management program....knew more than the professors at the time. This is well, well before Pro Tools etc... Paul taught me how to splice 2" Tape lol. Loaned me his Aspen Pittman Tube book...which I still got. As a matter of fact Paul was the one who added the bias adjustment on my old 5150 and schooled me on just how close the circuit was to an SLO. Helluva guitar player as well.snowdog":1u504t57 said:glip22":1u504t57 said:Supposedly very high quality guitars. I believe they had a fire. Before or around this time they had Paul Cochrane designing and building some cool amps. I owned one. Paul said they went out of business because they couldn't fill the back order of guitars. They invested allot in the amp line but no dealers would buy the amps until the back orders were filled. They folded after this. Something along these lines.The guitars have a following and a great rep.
Never heard anything about them folding, the website is still up.
http://www.heritageguitar.com/indexe.html
Atomic Playboy":wz3gmp78 said:I have two Heritage Gary Moore models, you won't find these particular ones for sale as there were only 75 of each series (2) made worldwide in the early nineties.
I can say they are the equal of and in most cases superior to their Gibson counterparts.
But Heritage's should be held to there own standard. They are superb guitars.
Here is a history of the Gary Moore models I wrote for The Lord of the Strings, the Gary Moore Fan Forum:
http://www.garymoorefc.com/en/guitars_heritage
Check them out, they are as good as the old Hamers and now the LP styles feature long tenons as per the Gibson Hysterics, not that the previous length tenons were deficient in any way..
http://www.heritageguitar.com/indexa.html
I have an Amber Burst and an Almond Burst, they have Gotoh Gibson hardware fitted and have been refretted from new with DiMarzio stainless steel fretwire by the late great John Zeidler.
https://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g219/ ... 20Guitars/
https://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g219/ ... 0Heritage/
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These are amongst the best playing LP style guitars I have ever played, heavy yes almost 11 lbs. each with Grovers and EMG electronics, but worth it!
Atomic Playboy