Heritage Guitars

Here is my latest Heritage acquisition I am a player, not a collector so I believe in having few guitars with a strong spiritual connection with each one. This is the Les Paul that I have always wanted. I compared this guitar (which costs around $2000) with several Historic Gibson Custom Shop guitars or any other VOS Gibson I could get my hands on costing 4-7G's and they just can't touch this Heritage. With all the nostalgia around the '59 Les Paul I can't believe more players aren't playing Heritage. Heritage 150s are made the same way with the same tools. They are hand made from select woods. I am working on an article called everything Gibson does not want you to know. Watch for it soon

• Year: 2007
• Manufacturer: Heritage
• Model: H150CM
• Case: Original Hard
• Color: Vintage Burst
• Condition: Brand New
• Description: SOLD**********SOLD***********SOLD*************** Thanks Jason & "Congratulations." No.29903. Among the nicest 150's ever is this custom, with Seymour Duncan's matched set model 59 humbuckers w/ nickel covers, a beautiful precision setup via PLEK machine, our better hardware package, a beautiful deeply carved flamed Maple arched top of Northern Michigan Maple, REAL Nitrocellulose Lacquer over a hand shaded finish, REAL Honduran Mahogany body & REAL M.O.Pearl inlays- instead of that truly vile M.O.Toilet seat inlay the G® brand stick with....UGH! This is the "REAL" thing- hand crafted in very small numbers in the historic Parsons Street shop in old Kalamazoo by the world's most experienced makers of this type instrument. Call us in Florida @ 561-746-2209 for the deal.

I have a lot to say about the wonderful folks at Heritage Guitars and the about the awesome guitars that they make. If you are not familiar with Heritage, then you are going to be blown away once you hear their story, get familiar with their instruments, and see their prices.

Heritage Guitars is a U.S. company that was founded by employees of the Gibson guitar factory. In the 1980s, Gibson moved production from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nashville, Tennessee; some of the employees that did not want to move started production of guitars under a new name.

Heritage is a boutique manufacturer with a broad representation of models, from semi-hollow guitars, to large jazz boxes, to solidbody electrics. In these types of guitars, Paul Reed Smith Guitars and Gibson guitars are the closest nominal equivalents. Heritage, however, has advantages over either.

In general, Heritage makes guitars that are superficially similar to Gibson's products, but are constructed in a much more hand-made fashion, and with much greater individual attention to the instrument by the builders. Heritage has made one concession to automated machinery, that being a Plek automated fret-dressing machine which precisely grinds the frets to the proper crown and intonation - everything else is done by hand. Gibson and Paul Reed Smith guitars are almost universally manufactured using CNC machines.

Heritage's main advantages over the equivalent Gibson or Paul Reed Smith models fall into two areas:

1) Master craftsman construct, set up, inspect and approve of every guitar built. These craftsman have decades of experience, and nothing leaves the factory without their approval. Only "Custom Shop" instruments from most other manufacturers get this type of attention, and few (if any...) manufacturers have employees with the vast experience that Heritage can boast in theirs. In short, EVERY guitar made by Heritage is a "Custom Shop" guitar.

2) Heritage guitars are almost universally less expensive than the equivalent Gibson or Paul Reed Smith guitars, and generally feature higher quality components - specifically the wood used in construction and the pickups and bridges.

3)Heritage necks are hand shaped and therefor there are variations from instrument to instrument. Ultimately you get a better feelling neck than a cookie cutter machined Gibson neck (or any CNC made guitar for the matter). Heritage Guitars are handmade and the final fretwork and action are done with a PLEK machine. All Heritage models get PLEK treatment.

Honestly, in my educated opinion, Heritage Guitars are among the highest quality instruments I have ever played.