This is a really special guitar.  It's beauty defies words - it takes a lot for a guitar to take our breath away upon arrival.  This is one of the few that has left us speechless.  This is a similar guitar to one we ordered for a customer as a surprise from his son.  It's got some features he'd been wanting since the 60's - but he realized the Heritage was really the way to go - due to their care and quality, open willingness to doing custom work AND price!  So we sent them a picture of a finish that was not being offered by Heritage (or Gibson).  The spray guy replied "I sprayed this in the 60's.  Don't see why I can't do it now!"  So after our lucky customer's gift arrived, we asked if it would be okay for us to order another one of these for stock - since it was so impressive.  He was excited that we were so excited and quickly gave us his blessing.
   So here we go friends -  a custom Cherry Burst Finish on Heritage's gorgeous H-555.  But the options don't stop there - it also boasts Mother of Pearl block inlays on the Ebony Fingerboard, Chrome Hardware, triple w/b/w binding, Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups, and a super cool Bigsby Vibrato tailpiece.  It doesn't get any cooler. 

Food for Thought:
In a perfect world, collectors, players and enthusiasts would be driven to own the instruments that have physical traceable history - not just purely connected to a name that people have been inundated with which has been bought and changed.  When people talk about classic guitars from Kalamazoo, and tie it to names like Ted McCarty, Les Paul or Lloyd Loar - doesn't it seem logical that they would also desire a guitar built by folks who shared the same hallowed grounds and who still create masterpieces with the same dedication and conviction of the historically significant instruments of the past.  Furthermore, don't you think folks would want to buy a guitar from people with a history OF ACTUALLY BUILDING the vintage guitars that are commanding such astornomical figures and are in the hands of players all over the world?  It would seem so....
    Heritage Guitars is a company who's chief concern is building great guitars the same way they built them back in the 50's when they were building for Gibson.  Unlike other companies, they are NOT also concerned with aquiring imported chinese lines, selling pianos and keyboards, drums, horns, reporting to stockholders with divedends, or maintaining an advertising budget that rivals Harley Davidson .  Those thing seem like they'd make it hard to focus on building consistently great guitars.