Re: Heritage Les Paul Arrived Today! *PICS*
Frantic_Rock said:
Kaknight
I'm knocked out by that top and color.
What you're describing almost causes me to not believe ya
Actually it's a fake. it's a photoflame japanese copy that I spraypainted to look darker
Seriously, I am as blown away as you by the quality. I think that Heritage is the best deal on the market now.
Frantic_Rock said:
Could you describe the sound to us please? You mentioned it was even sounding, smooth and helped cure a brightness problem with the pickups, but how is the playability, action - most importantly, intonation, and sustain?
I played
a lot of Les Pauls before I decided to buy this guitar, so I'll give you my best run down. I found that many les pauls sounded like a characature of a Les Paul if that makes sense. You know, you plug some 11lb standard in and you get this buzzsaw sound that sounds kinda harsh. Almost like someone had taken that great tone of the Les Pauls you here on old recordings and made an artificial version of it. On the other hand some LP's, particularly those with some of the more powerful gibson pickups didn't sound much like LPs to me at all. They had huge bass, and no top end. When I ordered this guitar, I said "I want a guitar that sounds, feels, and looks like something that people really played back in the 60's". I wanted to get something that had that warmth of the Allman Bro's type tone, and the crunch of Aerosmith, and the top end of Jimmy Page.
This is that guitar.
It is very warm sounding, and it has an unmistakeable LP growl. I think that a some of the mellowness comes from the pickups (AIIPro, and CC), and a lot comes from the woods. My best buddy has a very nice LP Standard from 2000. We A/B'd the two of them last night, and even he was pretty upset about his guitar's performance. My guitar was much less sterile and had just a great warmth to its tone.
Playability - Great! Well, it was a custom neck request, so I got what I was looking for. My neck actually isn't too different from their standard (mine is just a hair deeper and slighly asymetrical. The normal neck on these guitars for me is still very nice. It's between a big baseball bat 58 and the slim neck 60. their standard neck is a C shaped neck.
Intonation and Sustain - This is really good too. I attribute this a lot to the PLEK system that Heritage uses at the factory (it's a computerized system with lasers that helps them decide how to do the final fret dressing work and such) as well as a great setup by Jay at Wolfe guitars.
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) and his other number has been busy so far. I've sent him a list of specs for my Paul and his estimate was 1540. 
