Heritage H-150CM

Brand new 2001 heritage 150 standard with a gold top, real abalone inlays, grover tuners, changed bridge to a tone pro's stop tail piece by the dealer Ed Roman of World class guitars. Its basically a Gibson Les Paul standard but better.

Has a beautiful sound. I always see how a guitar plays unplugged first and this one was really loud and clear. When u plug in the sound is very thick, deep and really clear.

Ed gave me a free set up right there at the store. The set up was perfect and straight.

Id defenately play it live, cuz guitars are built to be played not worshiped.

Ed gave me a free 2 year warranty, so im not worried

A perfectly balanced beautiful guitar. The neck is one of hte best ive ever played. Better than a gibson les paul. Perfect

Typical Les Paul features

This guitar ROCKS! I was hoping it would compare equally to a Les Paul, but it surpasses all the Les Pauls I've tried, though I do like Gibson LPs

Okay, here's where the rubber hits the road. I tried several Gibson Les Pauls when I was guitar hunting and I was suprised at the lackluster workmanship of most current Gibson LPs. The inlay work is sloppy, the action was off, and the guitar just didn't seem like it was worth $2,000+
The Heritage LP, on the other hand, is far superior in this regard. The action is great and the inlays speak volumes on the craftsmanship of the people at Heritage. The top is properly bookmatched and the guitar looks great overall.

My primary concern, however, is how a guitar sounds, and Gibson LPs sound great. Fortunately, the Heritage not only keeps pace, but to my ears sounds better than the Gibson LPs I tried. Nothing against Gibson, but the Heritage is better and less expensive.

This guitar is solidly constructed and will last a long time. My only concern is whether or not the tailpiece and bridge will erode the way many Gibson tailpieces and bridges do. Time will tell, but it looks like they're solid metal, not alloy with a chrome coating.

Some people like Gibson LPs and some prefer the Heritage LP. I just like good guitars. Go out and try both and decide for yourself. Don't follow the hype.

My choice is Heritage.

Outstanding guitar

1999 h-150cm made in my home town, kalamazoo mi 22 fret, 2 vol - 2 tone 3 way selector, twin humbuckers, transperant black, rose wood fret board, with a custem heritage case.

there great people

i recomend a heritage to anyone. they dont make every model out there but i will tell u that u can make these things do anything and they still sound great. super heavy duty guitars. ive had nothing but smiles sence i bought this guitar and made many friends with it too.

This is a 1992 150, beautiful solid top, 2 volume, 2 tone, 2 humbuckers, etc.

Great sound, with bite on the bridge and roundness on the neck pickup.

This is essentially a Les Paul Standard with expected features from Kalamazoo. No surprises.

Very dependable guitar.

I have played for 35 years, own several other guitars. Would recommend the instrument.

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This is an update to a review I submitted back in October, I've since updated or upgraded my Heritage with a set of Seymour Duncan Antiquity Humbuckers. I replaced the Seymour 59's the guitar came with, God what a great investment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The pickups were expensive (about $120 each) but well worth the price. I think Heritage should offer these pickups as an upgrade, they really bring out the overtones hiding in the solid mahagony body. The $$ I saved buying a Heritage rather than a Gibson more than made up for the investment, I encourage all you Heritage owners to give these pickups a try!!!!!

I am the proud owner of a new 1999 Heritage H-150CM. It is basically a Les Paul Standard. It has a mahogany body and neck, dark rosewood fretboard, and a carved maple top. My guitar's top is flamed, bookmatched, and looks like tiger stripes! It has the standard Les Paul electronics (3-way selector switch, tone and volume controls for each pickup). The humbuckers are either Schaller or ones made by Heritage for the guitar. I'm not sure about their origins and neither was the dealer. The roller bridge and stop tailpiece are Schaller. It comes with nickel Grover tuning machines. It has the standard 24.75" scale length and the neck is meaty, but not baseball bat-like at all (very comfortable and playable). As far as Les Paul features, it has them all and more (I'll get to this later). It has Mother of Pearl trapezoid inlays, cream binding on the body and neck, and standard Les Paul sized frets. At any rate, try getting a Gibson Les Paul Standard with a flamed maple top for what I paid!

First, I want to say, "Wow!" This thing is so sweet. The tone just pours out of the guitar. It has unreal sustain, it's fat (or phat), and it simply sounds wonderful. In my head, I am now Jimmy Page (only younger and more handsome...LOL). I don't know how to describe what I hear other than to say brawny, masculine, full, etc., etc. Playing clean, this guitar is throaty and vocal. Distorted, the guitar growls, especially on the bridge. The neck pickup is excellent for what it does (i.e., rhythm work), but for solos, the bridge pu is godlike. Creed, Led Zep, GnR, Aerosmith, Godsmack,and so on are just so easy to do now. Going back to a Tele or a Strat makes me feel like I'm playing an electric banjo.

I play hard rock, classic rock, metal, some blues, a touch of jazz, and I actually have a little formal training in playing the classical guitar. This guitar can handle all of these musical forms quite nicely (except for parts that should be played on a nylon string classical guitar). Playing live, I use a Marshall 2550 Jubilee 50 watt combo and at home I play through an Allen Class Act combo. I don't like using lots of effects, but I do infrequently use a Boss DS-1, a Dunlop wah pedal, a delay, and a chorus. The guitar is never noisy, even in loud, high gain settings. The pickups don't squeal or buzz--they just crunch and roar. These are excellent pickups.

I used to be a die hard single coil player. After many years of playing, however, I decided that I wanted to fill up more sonic real estate. The H-150CM does this for me. Also, I got so fed up with the single coils buzzing all of the time. There were a few places that my band and I played where the lights, equipment, and other things made my single coils buzz, buzz, buzz... incessantly. The humbuckers are absolutely dead quiet. Oh, and you'll never get the "icepick through the forehead" tone out of this guitar that you will from something like a Tele. Don't get me wrong, a well-made Telecaster is a terrific instrument, but I would only use it for playing country music at this point in my life. I have no dislikes with the sound of the guitar. It is magical.

This guitar had been sitting unplayed for a long time in the corner of the music shop with three other H-150CMs and it needed a bit of a set-up. Basically, the dealer allowed me to put on new strings, tweak the truss rod, and intonate it before making a final decision. Once set-up, the guitar was delicious. After adjusting it, it felt like a pawnshop prize only without the wear. With a capo at the first fret, the action is 5/64" at the 12th fret which is perfect for me. There is a very slight buzz on the wound strings playing at the first fret when playing more aggressively, but it is not audible through a clean amp setting. Two points off for the slight buzz that isn't audible through the amp.

The top is properly bookmatched, the pickups were right on, the strings pass directly over the polepieces, and all of the hardware is properly mounted and works smoothly. The tuners, by the way, are really smooth and steady. The instrument does not go out of tune at all. A guitar built by human beings will never be able to get a ten rating from me in this category.

The electronics on the guitar are excellent. I get no crackling when switching pickups or rolling the tone and volume knobs.

The roller bridge is superb and easy to use. Setting the intonation was easy, the bridge feels smooth, and the tone is not compromised in the least by the fact that this is not an ABR-1 bridge.

This guitar will and does withstand live playing. I feel that the hardware will wear well and last a long, long time. The finish will wear, but that is the nature of the nitro beast. The strap buttons were very solid, but I replaced them with Schaller straplocks before taking the guitar out of the store. By the way, it is a heavier instrument. This is the tradeoff for the tremendous tone and sustain. I am a big guy and I have no problems gigging with it, but some of my more nimble friends may be put off by the weight.

I would depend on it, but I plan on taking care of it. In all honesty, due to its set neck, I would be less inclined to abuse it than, say, your run-of-the-mill Stratocaster simply because the Strat neck can, obviously, be replaced easily.

I never gig without a backup, regardless of the guitar.

The warranty is only one year. This seems like a short warranty period to me, but I don't anticipate any problems. I did not speak with Heritage, but I did talk with a gentleman from Lasar Music Corp. (the sales and marketing company for Heritage) and he provided some helpful information and was very friendly. A couple of points off for the one year warranty.

I have been playing guitar for about fifteen years. As far as guitars, I own (and don't laugh) a Peavey Wolfgang Special (my backup), a Fender Jag-Stang (a gift and also a backup), a couple of classical guitars, and a few junk guitars. I have owned Strats and Teles in the past, but I have gotten rid of them recently.

The H-150CM is a tremendous instrument and a great value. I do tons of research on all of my purchases and I really don't give a rat's ass about having Gibson (or Fender or whatever) on the headstock. I played twenty to thirty different Gibson Les Paul guitars at different stores (I even toted around my Allen Class Act through which I played the guitars). The only one that even remotely compared--no exaggeration--to the Heritage was a Gibson Custom Shop 1959 Les Paul Figuredtop Reissue that I had an opportunity to play when I was in Chicago several weeks ago. That was a beautiful guitar, but I would have had to sell a kidney and my firstborn to purchase it. Several of the Gibsons, however, suffered from inconsistencies that I believe are unacceptable (substandard fretwork, poor finishes, inaccurately mounted tuners, bad binding work, etc.) and which I found on guitars that had already been set-up by the respective dealers. FWIW, from what I have heard, this guitar was crafted by people who were building Gibson guitars when Gibson's current luthiers were still living with mom and dad.

I love the gobs of tone that I get from this instrument and the vibe that it gives off. It is well-made and will last as long as I take care of it. I wish I could have another one or two just like it so I wouldn't have to take time retuning for alternate tunings during a gig.

This guitar fulfills a dream for me. I always wanted a Les Paul Standard (especially a vintage one), but I wasn't going to pay the money for it and because of the cost, I certainly wouldn't gig with one. I had reservations about buying the Heritage (at first) because of a concern with resale value. Let me tell you though, resale value is irrelevant to me because this guitar will either go to my kids or be sold by my executor at my estate sale. It is simply *that* good. Do yourself a big favor and try one before making the final decision on that Gibson...I think you will be pleasantly surprised!

This is a 1998 H150CM vintage sunburst heritage, basically a les paul. The pickups are Seymour Duncan SH1's, the top is a lightly flamed maple and the body is solid mahogany, grover tuners and schaller roller bridge and tail piece, the neck width and feel is the same as a 59' Les Paul reissue, came with a hardshell heritage case.

I play mostly classic style rock and blues, my amp is a mesa boogie rocket44 and for effects I have a standard crybaby wah and a nano verb reverb unit. The guitar plays excellent, very smooth action and the pickups are damn near identical to vintage Gibson PAF's. Wonderful overtones and very clear and prominent tone in all three pickup configurations. It sounds great for clean country riffs but the guitar really comes alive when the volume and the drive get turned up! Very versatile. My only issue is the schaller tailpiece, changing strings is a pain - the strings don't go through the tailpiece - instead the sit in plastic retaining saddles and slip out constantly when I restring. I'll change this soon or pick up some locking tuners to eliminate string slack. The guitar is also heavy, 11 pounds worth!!! Hanging on to it all night is a challenge in itself. But the sound and playability make it my main guitar, it really sounds fantastic.

The set up on the guitar was okay when I bought it but the frets needed polishing - this could be due to the fact that it sat in the case at the music store for a year, I don't know. The top isn't perfectly bookmatched but then I paid significantly less for the guitar than some of the other highly flamed 8+ tops I've seen on other heritage models so I'm more than satisfied. There are some minor finish flaws in the binding (bleed) and some scrap marks near the binding and the neck joint. Other than that everything is very solid and unless someone is looking at the guitar carefully they wouldn't even see these minor flaws. The pickups were adjusted fine, I haven't moved them, I know some of these guitars suffer from switch noise and jack noise but mine hasn't had any of these problems and I play it everyday.

This guitar will outlast the pyramids, it's built rock solid, the hardware is bomb proof and I hope the finish wears!!! It's got an old cellulous type finish which will wear but that's the beauty of these guitars - they look better worn. I've been playing the guitar for over a year, everyday and I see no appreciable wear, it's my main guitar and I have no fear it will fail during a gig.

I called Heritage about a month after I got the guitar because I screwed up and lost one of the rollers on the bridge, I wanted to buy a couple of replacements, they said "no" and sent me an entire set!!! Plus the guy talked to me for about twenty minutes, guitars, amps, settings, life, family - what a great company. I also asked about the top and asked if it could be replaced with a highly figured top, they said no problem send it in with and for about $300 they would completely redo the top and make it a work of art. Now I only paid $850 for the guitar so the offer was very tempting, but the more I played the guitar the more I like how it sounds, I don't want to change anything so it stays the way it is. The warranty is for as long as I own the guitar - I think. But I figure it will last longer than me anyhow so I'm not worried about it, maybe my grandkids will send it in for a refet some day!

I've been playing for a long time, I've had many guitars - some cheap and some expensive, I still have a strat but don't play it much. This guitar falls right in the middle cost wise of the other guitars I've purchased but is by far and away the best value of any guitar I've owned. The workmanship is good, the looks are great but most of all this guitar sounds awesome - in a good amp there is no style of music you can't use it to play - not many guitars meet that criteria. If it were stolen I'd drop a load, I couldn't replace it - new heritage CM150's start at around $1,200 and go up from there. I love the way it plays and I love the way it sounds, my left shoulder hates how heavy it is. I wish it came with locking tuners. After owning a heritage I wouldn't think of going back to Gibson products, there really is no need. These guitars are every bit as good if not better and at significantly lower prices - you will save enough to buy a good amp. My next buy is a 535.

The H150-cm is very similar to a Gibson Les Paul Standard. Mahagony back and neck with a carved maple top. The top is very flamey and pretty, although there are a few mineral marks, which I actually like. It makes it look a little tougher. The fingerboard is rosewood and average sized Les Paul frets. The position markers are real mother of pearl, as opposed to Gibson's plastique or whatever it is. The tuners are Grovers and the Bridge and the tailpeice are made by schaller. The pickups are also the schaller version of P-A-F/'57 style. Everything else sxcept the headstock is Gibsonish.

I play this guitar through a Matchless Chieftan 2-10. THe tone is very unique. It doesn't sound exactly like a new Gibson standard, but it does sound great. It has a warmer sound. It sounds great distorted... nice sustain... ZZ top, Zeppelin, etc. It has a woody vibe. I've been told it sounds more like what a 57-58 les paul sounds like than a new Gibson. It really sounds good... I really like the Schallers... warm and woody.

THe finish is lovely... kind of an orange burst... with a very nice flame top. the mahogany back and neck is very beautiful as well. It's a real looker. It was hard to analyze the set-up in the store because the strings were so old. I do all my own set ups so I don't mind a poor set up, as long as you can get it right. This guitar had some fret problems, and I did have to get the frets dressed before I could get it to play good. Close action, with minimal buzz. I called the factory to get their settings. I set it up a little higher than they recommend and I set the pickups quite a bit lower than the way they do at the factory. After getting the frets fixed, It plays perfectly.

No problem here, although the cord jack feels like the plug sits a little loose inside. I've read where others have had trouble with heritage jacks, but so far it's ok. One of the strap buttons was stripped, but I have good reason to beleive it was the dealer who wrecked it. It was an easy fix.

I think it only has a one year warranty. I have called the Guys at heritage several times with questions... always friendly, always happy to help out. They are a great bunch of folks... and there attitude comes through in the fantastic guitars they build.

I've been playing for about 35 years. I've owned several other Les Pauls, Gibsons. My current other guitars: Fender Custom shop Strat, and Gibson Country Gentelmen. I like them all about equally. Between the three I can get any tone I desire. I love this Heritage and plan on buying other Heritage models in the future. The prices are good, the quality is great and the vibe is unbelieveable. I've never had a nicer sounding Les Paul, or one that played this good... and I've liked my other ones!

Basically a Les Paul copy (Two Humbuckers, 3 way switch, independent volume and tone controls). Mahogany body with a killer quilted maple top. Ditched the ugly pickguard, endpiece, and bridge, replacing with a Tune-o-matic. Pickups are "Smooth Golden 50's", which I guess are standard for all 150s. I, personally like the necks on Heritages better than those on Gibson's, but everyone has their own preference. Definitely worth the money to get the quilted top and replace the bridge. Even with these additions, a lot cheaper than any Les Paul I could find.

I got this guitar a couple a weeks ago, and it sounds great so far. I play mostly blues and the humbuckers provide a real meaty sound. I've only been playing for 6 years, so I don't have the best ear for sound, but this guitar competes with any guitar I have tried.

Had the dealer grind down the frets a bit, as I had heard that Heritages are known for less than perfect fretting. Settings were all great from the dealer. Again, I love the feel of the neck more than anything else.
And the finish. Wow! _Killer_ amber quilt on this thing. It's definitely worth the couple hundred to get a quilted top. I think it looks infinitely better than a flamed top (though I still like those too)
My only complaint is that the tuners and tailpiece were a little tarnished. Can't seem to get a shine on them yet. Oh well, I'd rather have a great sounding guitar than a great looking one.

Haven't had any problems yet.

No dealings yet

I have only been playing for a few years now, but I play quite often (for a college student) I also own an epiphone LP Custom (nice, but nothing compared to this guitar) If it were stolen, I would probably shoot myself. I spent a large portion of a summer's wage on this guitar and have been completely satisfied. I originally set out looking for a good deal on a LP, but found a better deal in what I think is a better guitar.

1997 model. Basic Les Paul setup - 2 humbuckers, 3 way switch, seperate tone and volume controls, bound body and neck, neck feels thinner than Les Paul and that's a good thing as I have fairly small hands, chrome hardware, came with HSC.

This is definetly a blues/vintage rock guitar, though I do play punk and some alt rock. Play it through Crate GX-212+ and Zoom 1010 processor. I'm contemplating changing the pickups to Seymour Duncans. My first guitar was a Strat so the tone of this is much deeper and richer. I like the jazzy tone I get through the neck pickup

Set-up was a little high for my liking but that was easily adjusted. Had to adjust the pickups down a bit for the lower string action. This guitar has a natural finish and I must say that the top is beautifully bookmatched. Got several "wows" whne friends first saw. A few nicks but this was hangin in the dealers showroom for a year, but the nicks are only noticeable close-up. Only other flaw is that a few frets could have been filed a bit better.

Had it for two months and no problems yet. I've been playing for about two years, don't think I'll join a band so I won't have to worry about live playing. Seems very solid and dependable.

Sent an e-mail about changing pickups and got next day response.

Took up guitar at age 41 and have been playing for two years. I like my Strat and will never part with it but I really have fallen for this guitar. I think it's better than a Les Paul for about half the price. Anyone see the CNN report about Gibson losing market share to competitors like Heritage? Need I say more about this guitar. I would buy another if it were stolen or lost --- in a heartbeat. Would love to buy a Heritage 535. Can you help me convince my wife???