Hey Spacey... something about that Heritage 575.

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2013/03/01 09:16:40 (permalink)

Hey Spacey... something about that Heritage 575.



Hi Spacey,
 I just had a good thing happen that was caused by my buying that Heritage 575 guitar a short while back.

 I had been watching the Heritage guitars for a few years.

 I had also been, coincidentally, hoping to some day acquire a solid wood arch top Gibson guitar but I had basically been watching the price of those Gibsons rise as fast as my capability to define a budget for the task. :-) I'd been hoping for twenty plus years to get a chance to buy one but I never seemed to get any closer to one I would buy.

 I had been actively shopping for a mid 1990's Guild thinking it would make a good second best choice. I'd been watching ebay auction every day but the prices on USA Guilds started escalating right when I started looking and I watched that market change quickly to the point where I wasn't going to pay the current market price for a Guild.

 Right about then you mentioned the Heritage guitar factory and that caused me to take another look at their line up. You and Tim helped me focus on the line up and I figured out that the 575s are floating around used at prices that seem very good compared to all the other USA brand name values.

 My timing was fortuitous and I found a 2001 575 priced at $2k. I called the owner and we did the deal for a whole lot less than that. The 2001 model had the fat neck profile I like and I have come to really enjoy the guitar as an all arounder.

 A month ago I had a friend stop by to check out my diy amps and we talked about guitars and how much we love all of them. I told him I had bought the 575 because I felt like I was never going to get to feel good about buying one of the old Gibson I had started out wanting. I told him the pricing was beyond my comfort level.



 Well, here's the punch line; Yesterday this friend cold calls me and explains that he has decided that he wants to loan me a mid 1930's Gibson L7 for as long as I want to experience it. :-)
 
 He say's he isn't planning on selling so someone should play it. :-) He said he thought a guy that was willing to buy a 575 off of ebay would probably enjoy an old top of the range 1930's Gibson.

 When I bought the 575 I knew that it was far classier guitar than I am a player. This new circumstance will certainly highlight my deficiencies but I am totally stoked to get to play on a piece of history.

 Can you tell I'm stoked? Like a kid a Christmas time!


 So that's the story of what learning about the 575 did for my guitar playing. :-) It got me further on down the road.


 Thanks Spacey!



 all the best,
mike




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    Re:Hey Spacey... something about that Heritage 575. 2013/03/01 09:45:49 (permalink)
    You're stoked!

    I wouldn't mind owning either but my attention is without doubt on the Heritage.

    The real issue IMO Mike isn't name, year or whatever...although I do respect the nostalgia
    of instruments I just don't value them enough to spend money on them.

    Many businesses succeed with a 60% success rate. That holds true today.
    I think that may be something that many don't consider when they spend their big bucks
    on "trust" by the word of mouth or "name".

    Imagine for example...PRS ( since I don't want to use Heritage LOL)....if Paul gets 6 out of 10 of his guitars to be good...his business is working.
    All the BS of what it takes to build a good one is just nothing more than use the best material you can and hope for the best.
    A good analogy that I heard somewhere....One can take a perfect groom...he is perfect and a perfect wife...she is perfect and it doesn't mean that the marriage will be perfect.
    That tells more about a guitar than anything I've ever heard. Everything- all the materials and the builder can be perfect but when it's all "married"....just no telling until it's plugged in.

    So Mike....both of them could be in that 40% for all I know. :)
    Now the trick is to eliminate all the "stuff" and go with your ears and how it feels. That's what really tells ya what to call them.

    I have an old Guild. Plays like a piece of junk but does have the sound. Maybe I'll
    get it playing right some day. Was a gift because the guy grew to hate it. High dollar
    guitar not worth spit.



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    Re:Hey Spacey... something about that Heritage 575. 2013/03/01 10:06:35 (permalink)


    :-)

    The thing about an old 1930's Gibson... if it wasn't a good playing guitar it probably would not be here now.

    Pricing didn't make that happen. Been a whole lot of guitars made... how many have been kept?

    :-)

    The thing I like about playing on a variety of guitars is having to learn how to play them, learning how to hold them, learning how to find what they do well, and learning what you shouldn't ask them to do. 

    :-)


    For me, the pricing stuff is just a hindrance to getting a chance to do that.



    all the best,
    mike



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