Heritage guitars

[the rossness]

Does anyone have one? are they any different than gibson? Do you like it?

 

[mboogman]

I don't own one, but have played them. If I was going for an american made Les Paul, I'd buy a Heritage.

 

[glip22]

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.

 

[snowdog]

Made in the old Gibson factory where all the supposedly "good" LP's came from. I guess quite a few of the people that used to work for Gibson didn't want to relocate and stayed there.

I have played a couple, they were both pretty good. Alex Skolnick plays them.

Bad resale value though (wrong name on headstock) maybe check eBay on finding a used one.

 

[snowdog]

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

 

[glip22]

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

Maybe it was just the amps.

 

[khawk]

I have a Goldtop and love it. Heavy as hell and filled with tone!

 

[Mudder]

They're the real Les Paul. Made at the original factory, by former employees, on a lot of original equipment, using original techniques.

 

[daver101]

I had a custom, and I wish I had never sold it. It was a high quality guitar. Better than most Gibson I owned.....

 

[jabps]

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.

 

[glip22]

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.

That's cool. The Heritage Colonial I owned was a very cool amp with patented features.

 

[jabps]

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.

That's cool. The Heritage Colonial I owned was a very cool amp with patented features.

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.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

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/

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

 

[AmpliFIRE]

Nice guitars...ugly headstocks

 

[metalmaniac93]

I have one and it is awesome!!! One of my favs. I have the tone pros ABR style bridge and Fralin Pickups.

 

[guitarnie]

Those are killer guitars, Gibson+ build quality. Headstock is not a open book but that doesn't bother me. They don't get as much love as they deserve.

 

[yngwiestrat]

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/

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

Ive got two gary moore's as well one in each color. ive got a natural standard as well with bareknuckle rebel yells. All three heritages play better than my gibson R9's

 

[mjtripper]

Heritage Guitars and Heritage Amps are two completely different and unrelated companies - I love both their products however

 

[joepete77]

If I had to buy new 2012 I would go with heritage over Gibson. Yeah the head stocks are ugly but I am getting over that, and the resale value stinks but overall heritage quality in their normal production run is what Gibson charges extra for in their "custom shop" and even then the heritage may be better these days. I am real close to getting this beautiful heritage hollow body similar to a es175 but with a beautiful flame top and for the same price as a lower tier Gibson.

 

[Anonymous]

I have owned a few Heritage guitars and they were great. The one I always wanted was called a Kahuna. It had everything I ever wanted in a single cut guitar, but the guy who owned it decided not to sell. They were discontinued pretty quickly...


Here is one I like:

http://www.guitarx.com/cgi-bin/store/in ... uct=PstGtr