Pickup Identification on Heritage H-575

[Joeontheguitar]

My friends,

I can buy a H575 from my trusted guitar shop from '97. However, the pickups look like different pick ups than the original Schallers. Or maybe they changed just the covers. There is no information on the pickups anywhere, so they might be some handmade pups... but why these filtertron-like covers?

The sell is without any risk btw. I can try it and return it within 14 days.

Were the late 90's a good period for Heritage?

[marcwhy]

These are likely replacements, and you, too, can replace them if you don't like them. How does the guitar play, though?? [Pickups are an easy swap, and can make a good guitar even better!]

[Joeontheguitar]

Thanks!
Due to COVID, the store is only available for pickup. I can buy it, pick it up, try it for 14 days and if I don't like it, get a refund. Since it's pre-owned I can give it a good try, without the risk for the store to sell it as B-stock.

[339 in june]

Hey Joe, are you in the Netherlands ?
I saw this guitar on their website and wondered the same about the pick-ups.
Nice looking (at least from pics on the website) and fairly priced and it's always possible to swap pick-ups later
And you don't see Heritage used so often in Europe
If I had the €, you wouldn't even have seen it !

[Joeontheguitar]

Yes, I do.
Thanks man, you just convinced me. I already had them put it away till tomorrow for me.

[neatomic]

hard to see whats going on with those pickups from the pic...are they covered in dust??...but it's not just the covers that were changed..the entire pickups were...thats why the pickup height adj screw is drilled in between the original 2 holes on the pickup surround

hopefully they aren't some cheapo internet only knock-off filtertron

if you get it, take a look at the pickups underside & post some better pics..

luck

cheers

[Joeontheguitar]

I asked the store if they looked at the underside of the pickups and they did: there's not a word or letter anywhere at all. One of the guys who works there and really knows his stuff said he really has no idea what pickups these are. But like you said: a swap can be done. And one pickup will do. I don't use the bridge pu at all.

[339 in june]

Yes, I do.
Thanks man, you just convinced me. I already had them put it away till tomorrow for me.

Happy to have successfully joined the Great Enablers Band.
Please come back to us with your impressions about the guitar (and the pick-ups, of course !)

[Joeontheguitar]

I didn't do it. I figured it wouldn't make me a better player, nor did I need it. I have four good guitars now and that's a fine number for me I think. With four guitars, I can spend enough time on each guitar to bond with it, but I still get that feeling of having a 'new' guitar, if I haven't played it in a week or so.

Maybe a fifth won't hurt, but not this time.