Overall Rating: I've been playing guitar for 39 years. I own many guitars. Fender , Gibson ,PRS,G&L,Gretsch,Rickenbacker,Carvin. I play Rock , Hard Rock, Classic Rock ,Blues , Jazz , a bit of Metal when I want to blow the stink off. For most of what ...
Overall Rating: I've been playing guitar for 39 years. I own many guitars. Fender , Gibson ,PRS,G&L,Gretsch,Rickenbacker,Carvin. I play Rock , Hard Rock, Classic Rock ,Blues , Jazz , a bit of Metal when I want to blow the stink off. For most of what I play the 137 is perfect. I love the semi - clean growl and snarl this guitar gets. I've tried other P-90 guitars ,even the expensive ones and this guitar rocks. If something happened to it I'd get the same guitar all over again. If it were stolen I would'nt use that as an excuse to try something else. I'd want another 137.
Features: Purchased new Febuary 2006
Honduran Mahogony neck and body
Nitro finish
Lollar P-90's
Pigtail fully adjustable wraparound bridge
Grover tuners
2 volumes 2 tones 3 way switch
Exactly the features you'd expect to find on this type of guitar. The adjustable bridge is a nice touch.
Sound Quality: This guitar nails the P-90 experience. Huge sound yet single coil. The neck pickup is big and fat sounding. Nice and rich and full. The bridge pickup has a nice level of brightness without being thin. No harshness at all. When clean the guitar get this really nice low growl that becomes more present as you bring up the volume. This is why you want this guitar. When you add gain the guitar just soars. It handles dirt extremely well retaining a very nice level of clarity thru distortion. Great note separation. No mud! BTW the tone controls on this guitar work. You roll it back a little and you have useable tone not just dullness. Also worth noting. I use 9 - 42 strings and the guitar still sounds fat. You dont need 10's unless you like them.This is important to me. I like lighter strings because they are so bendable.
Reliability/Durability: This guitar seems to be as solid and sturdy as a guitar can be. I have an H 535 that I've owned for a couple of years. Never a problem. Not one! From all I can see I expect the same from the 137 so I'll give it high marks based on my other experince with Heritage.
Customer Support: As mentioned before I've had no problem with my 535 so I have had no need to deal with Heritage in this regard.
I will say that I spoke to Gram at Wolfe's a few times in making this purchase. The guy was great! He had excellent product knowledge.He was always pleasent,cheerful and more than happy to talk to me.Even when I caught him having lunch. He ended his lunch and took my call. His out of hand description of the guitar regarding apperance,feel and sound was dead on. I told him I wanted the fattest sounding 137 he had and he came through. Gram also had a great interest in my having the best possible experince dealing with Wolfe's. This guy should be cloned and used as an example to show what a guitar salesman should be like. I'm thinking that if I did have a problem Gram and Wolfe's would take care of me.
Purchased From: Wolfe's
Price: $1403.00 USD
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