Kalamazoo Heritage Guitar - Mlive

[bryonyhellis]

Amazing guitars!! Someday I'll buy one.

[B2EGuitarRWiZ]

These guys are amazing and i'm sure heritage is better to go with besides gibson isn't as intimate with the guitar anymore and they don't even make lefty's more people such as myself either GUYS AT HERITAGE KEEP ON KEEPIN ON CAUSE you have certainly made more peeps happy

[yyuushou]

Wonderful guitar making has been done since the Gibson years.

Now the Heritage.My guitars are H140,H150 & David Paul signature.

Very enjoyable!

[mwjazzman]

I own a Heritage Sweet 16 and it sounds just as good acoustic as it does plugged in to a tube amp of course. I ordered it from the factory the only changes were the HRW pick up and volume and tone controls on the pick guard. I would love to own a Golden Eagle, or a Johnny Smith the Rose one day.

[tijlcarrein]

I own 2 fabulous Heritage Guitars. (Check out the Heritage Owners Club website en get blown away by some of the awesome models on display. Probably the best guitars in the world. I've played a few guitars. I rate my H-150CM a lot higher than my brother-in-law's Gibson LP Classic. I rate My Parsons Street Custom a lot higher than my ESP M-II KH, and that's some statement, believe me!

Btw: the headstock is sexy is as hell with a better string guidance to boot!

[bigjohnnygee123]

I love watching guitars getting hand built. Don't know why. Haha!

[EHXGUY]

If you knew how to build a guitar in the 40s-50s you'd get a job at Gibson just like that. Now, It's impossible.

[yobhsiFehT]

Honestly? complaining about the headstock? Have you heard of a little thing called "copyright infringement"?? :S:D

[SIRONEDRAGON]

Thank YOU  Marvin :)

[TorbjornRJ]

when i see stuff like this i wonder....why do people keep buying Gibsons? they are crap! only reason ol Henry J can keep that ship floating is because of all those rich teenage slash wannabes that dont know a good guitar from a bad one!

[gargano3000]

that guy at the start looks suicidal no joke

[dandersboy]

the best guitars in the world ...dude

[gargano3000]

you need to change the headstock it#s vile

[murfdog19]

@gargano3000 I totally agree with you there. My local music store carries them, and the headstock is the ugly as hell to say the least. Other than that they are very nice guitars.

[gargano3000]

@murfdog19 how can they build a gorgeous guitar and then get the headstock really really wrong

[julianurabl]

makes me want to become a luthier.. i'll have to visit these guys one day and thank them for the great guitar they built for me!

[XlgRev]

bra if you want to come over and jam for me I would love to have you. I'm more of a rocker (for God) and wear alot of leather but I appreciate all music bra!!

[badpuppy1970]

Wow! I have to have one of those Guitars! I bet they sound incredible!

[gus23a]

the golden eagle is the best guitar i´ve ever played! those are loads better than gibsons! i wish i had bought it, when i had the chance! just 1800€!

[JimmyPage968]

they are Gibson guitars, i want to get one

[gus23a]

they aren´t gibson guitars. they broke away years ago.

those guitars are loads of times better than gibsons! twice!

the workers get really angry if you call them gibson.

[ChristopherDowning]

@gus23a

Completely agree Gus. These are the guys left behind by the Gibson's move to Tennessee. As they continued to make guitars under their own brand, and have done for nearly 25 years, they have to be knowing what they are doing. Good players and pros know a great guitar when they come across them and are not much swayed by brands. It's the instrument that does it for them. I know Heritage are highly rated by fellow pros who no longer need to be seen out there, playing the icon brands.

[donkeegan1107]

I live in Kalamazoo, and wish I could afford one. One of these days.

[iamkellen]

I just got an H 375 for 400!!!

[nwaairlinkazo]

My grandfather...Rendal has always worked for heritage and i will always buy a guitar from them to the end!!!!

[heartlandrails]

Do you play as well as he does? I used to watch your Great Grandpa, Rem, on TV when I was a kid growing up in W MI.

[nwaairlinkazo]

lets just say "its a work in progress" athough i have learned alot from him. and i hope to be just as good as he is.

[2vonranke]

Great Guitars I've owned 2 140s 150s and one of the 2 Super Eagles built with P90s from the factory . Country Great Hank Thompson owns the other one.

[heartlandrails]

I LOVE my Heritages, H150CM, H155, Millenium DC, Stat, HFT445 acoustic. They ARE the real G****n. Keep on truckin Kzoo guys.

[theraytex]

what lovely people ,,keep on

[phallystorm]

GOD BLESS THE USA,(Kalamazoo, MI.) HERITAGE/GIBSON Guitars ALL American Classics!! Thank you.

[ashputtel]

hands down the best American made guitars in the last 25 years.

[rocknroller111]

At a Kalamazoo music store, I was privileged to once be allowed to play a Heritage Eagle (I was on good terms with the owners.) Now Guitar Center is told that they can't carry both Heritage and Gibson, so they carry the Nashville-made Gibsons instead. Sad.

[radarTube]

HERITAGE company ... thaks you exist!

5 stars 10 stars ... 1000000000 stars

[himmelhund69]

I bought a red H535 through the mail ( I NEVER buy a guitar through the mail ). Had to do it that way, being overseas... they cost about 2300 Euros here, and I paid 1700 US for it. Beautiful guitar, everything is perfect and the semi-hollow sound is so cool... my first e-guitar was a red ES335 from old Mr. Lackey's guitar museum in Hampton, VA.

[bcw78]

I have a Golden Eagle that I got in 1996. Wonderful guitar. Have played it pretty much every day that I can since I got it...the wood pickguard is worn to prove it. Out of the 6 guitars I own it gets 99% of my playing time.

[leftyguitarman27]

I tried one out just a few hours ago at my local shop. Spectacular!

[Mrmaniac15765]

what store did u try it at?

[zappaelcrappa]

Does anyone know if this company still exist ?

[haraldtheman]

It exists

[zappaelcrappa]

Tanks!

[george330td]

Yes still exist and they make a beautifoul guitar , I have 3 of them;

[zappaelcrappa]

I have one also but im looking for parts, any idea where to get parts?

[george330td]

Hi. what kind of parts are you lookin for?Let me know I have some. ciao

[zappaelcrappa]

Im looking for a neck pickup ring.Looks like some replaced the neck pickup and cracked the p/u ring.Maybe looking for an org. neck pickup depending on price.Thanks bro

[george330td]

Ok I have an original neck pick up from an Heritage Eagle it's a Shaller and it comes with a wooden finger rest. Thake a look at Heritage web and be shure it work for you .I think around $ 150. ciao

[Conleth0]

American made is the way to go. I think I'm going to get a 535.. I've been looking for something like an ES335 for a while, and getting something made in Korea like an Epiphone Dot is kind of sketchy.. I'd love to get the H535 from these guys some day soon.

[CaliforniaCoolness]

Keeping manufacturing alive in the U.S.A. has to be a top priority, lest we forget how to build or design anything in America. My goal is to purchase a hand-carved Henry Johnson model with the knowledge that it was made by a luthier right here in the United States of America.(First, I need to close a few more escrows.)

Long live Heritage Guitars!!!

[BiscuitsAndGroovy]

I just pick up a H-140CM for $200 w/ohc(still hard to belive!)and the only thing wrong was a cracked headstock which I repaired.These guitars are top notch and are lighter than my Les Pauls ,now I thinking about getting a 535 .Truly nice guitars for the price.

[JimDeYoung1]

Had the opportunity yesterday to tour the Heritage plant with Rendall Wall and was so impressed with how hand made with such precision all of the guitars are. There is no mass production here. It's all by touch and feel. Thanks to Rendall for our 4-1/2 visit!

Jim De Young Sr.

[artiebassplayer]

I got Three.. Check out My Guitar Collection... you'll see them. I have a 1998 535, 1986 170dc, 1987 140.. I think if I was out playing 8 hours a day like when I was younger I'd be playing the 535 & 170 more than my Gibsons... The Quailty is really super... I'm from Saginaw.. I have a bunch of old Gibson Stories from the 60's etc.... You guys are the Masters.. Really...

[jasoncasper16]

PLEEEAAASSSSEEE don't go out of business!!! ;(

[Pickwick81]

I have a Heritage guitar, a really early (1988) tele style, twin humbucker, with the weird and wonderful variphase system. Beautiful instrument, will never sell it, never! Rock on Heritage!!!

[jasoncasper16]

Wow! That sounds really interesting! I have an H-353 ('96) in Vintage Sunburst. I got this about 2 years ago from a friend's dad who used to sell them back in the mid nineties. He had this guitar unsold from then sitting in his basement unplayed. It is by far the best guitar I have ever owned, and I have owned a few good ones. I just hope one day to get an all solid wood hollowbody from Heritage.

[phoephoe]

They aren't any time soon.

[jasoncasper16]

Thank goodness!! :)