Heritage Sweet 16

[2bornot2bop]

Awesome guitar! How do you like it?

Gorgeous Sweet 16. But you know me...I'm an 18" acoustic guy. The '16 is my sofa guitar. I prefer Sweet 16's with humbuckers. I owned one 4 years back in a nice wineburst.

BTW, anyone interested in a floating pickup Sweet 16, which seems to be 99% of what I've seen produced, Jack Zucker's video above is a VERY accurate reflection of the tonal characteristics for the Sweet 16. Jack's something else....miss him around here

Shame you can't hear Mimi on the '16 with Stanley

[Greentone]

Yeah, I miss Jack around here, too. Zucker sure can play...a strong George Benson influence in the clip.

That Sweet 16 sounds GREAT. (I'm not a pedal guy, but the Barb EQ by Barber does add some lift to the tone.)

[2bornot2bop]

Yeah, I miss Jack around here, too. Zucker sure can play...a strong George Benson influence in the clip.

That Sweet 16 sounds GREAT. (I'm not a pedal guy, but the Barb EQ by Barber does add some lift to the tone.)

Is it me, or was she channeling Wes at the 1:42 mark?

[Greentone]

Definitely (Mimi channeling Wes) and successfully. If she doesn't generate interest in Berklee, what does?

[MarkRhodes]

Greentone,

Mimi is a friend of mine (we have done a few gigs together) and I have played her guitar. It is a carved, solid wood guitar with a 24 3/4 scale. Essentially it is a Heritage version of the Gibson L-4CES. Back when she and I played together, she was using an AER Compact 60 amp .

Lucky you! I'm a big fan of Mimi's playing (and teaching). I love the story she told in a video interview about meeting Joe Pass (in his hotel room) and playing for him. (An audition for lessons, really.)

[busujiujitsu]

Sweet 16 is really good. awesome

[BigMikeinNJ]

HEY 2B !!

?its great seeing pics of my Sweet 16, I love it

I've only seen very very few Heritage Sweet 16's priced under $2k. Ever. One was 3 years ago, another 4 years ago. I bought one, Marty the other. I've not seen a single Sweet 16 priced for $1700 in the past several years. Most are in the high 2's, and some, usually retailers, above $3k. It's still a $2500 all carved made in the USA archtop. I don't see any commonality between a Sweet 16 and a Gibson, other than they're each 16" archtops. A Sweet 16 is a 25.5 scale, and solid spruce and maple, not laminate.

Single humbucker Sweet 16's are NOT very common. If that guitar floated my boat I'd buy it for $2500.

Definitely not an ES175

[busujiujitsu]

HEY 2B !!

?its great seeing pics of my Sweet 16, I love it

beautiful, great guitar

[Marty Grass]

The Sweet 16 is an excellent smaller archtop that's built with the same basic approach that Heritage applies to other carved archtops. The differences among them may be meaningful to you as an individual. They come with either parallel or cross bracing.

Super Eagle/Super Kenny Burrell 18" body, 3" depth, 25.5" scale.
Golden Eagle/Henry Johnson: 17" body, 25.5" depth. GE is 3" deep, HJ is 3 3/8" deep.
Sweet 16: 16" body, 2.75" depth, 25.5" scale.
H-575: 16" body, 2.75" depth, 24.75" scale.
Eagle: 17" body, 3" depth, 25.5" scale.

Heritage would make these on special order with spruce, maple or mahogany woods. Neck thickness are quite variable, commonly carved according to the customer's preference. Even top thickness and layers of nitro vary with request.

Newer Heritages are easier to generalize about. The older ones are not. That makes trying a 10-30 year old Heritage jazz box so much fun.