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Just wondering if anyone has a 90's (?) Heritage Golden Eagle with a headstock break repair and a rose inlaid in pearl where the eagle should be . I bought it on Ebay with the headstock break for about $800 back in the late 90's as I recall. The break was as perfect as they get and it went back together with no gaps. I put a new headstock overlay on it and used the original Heritage pearl but didn't like the eagle so inlaid a real nice rose like the Johnny Smith. Installed a floater pickup (Benedetto?) I think. Sent pictures to Gruhn and he appraised it for about $1300 which is what I think I sold it for on Ebay. Just wondered if it was still around. I think it went to California when I sold it. Pretty guitar but built like a tank. The guys at Heritage were real helpful during the process - even sent me a new plastic headstock overlay (which I didn't use).
Just wondering what happened to it.
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02-10-2023 03:23 PM
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I know the feeling. I had a gorgeous 90's blonde Golden Eagle, had my name engraved on the truss rod cover, had Heritage build me a pickguard with volume and tone and a hotter pickup. It was a fantastic guitar. I had to sell it (eBay, through a broker!) to cover some bills. I've always wondered what happened to that guitar. Whoever got it would know, my name was on the truss rod cover! I wish I just knew where it ended up.
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The one that got away.
I bought a Heritage Golden Eagle from Wolfe Guitars at a Nashville guitar show in 1994.
Traded it for a 2003 Gibson R9 Les Paul with a Brazilian fingerboard.
The Les Paul is awesome and the 2003 Braz R9s have gone up in value, but I do miss my Golden Eagle sometimes.
I found a picture of it at a dealer a few years later:
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There is a picture of one with a rose on You tube today. just the headstock
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Can you post the link?
Originally Posted by pdfiddler
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I had an ES-Artist in a beautiful flamey cherry sunburst, that I sold around '86. Years later I saw it on ebay. Someone had some really ugly inlay work done to the FB, and had ripped out the active electronics. I could have cried.
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Sometimes it's best not to search too hard for your old flames; not all miles around the block are the same
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Damn now I need to double check my Heritage Johnny Smith, doesn't have a headstock break.
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Besides the pickguard that one looks like mine. Most of them seem to have the tail piece with that ebony section with a plate that says "Golden Eagle" on it. Mine, like the one pictured, doesn't. I always wondered if it fell off at some point before I bought it. Maybe they came both ways. Originally Posted by Bluedawg
I've heard that Wolfe got some of the better ones as they were very picky.
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In 2016 I bought a handful of really lovely Heritage guitars and a unity from Fran Amato. Later I traded Patrick's super Patrick archtops to Marty grass for a Heritage American Eagle
This was a small group of guitars made in the 90s by the best guys all the old guys from gibson and then they really put the hearts of these suckers
I'm a veteran and I love that damn thing for all the americana all the work that's put into that may be too much bling for some people but not for this old torture
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A couple of years later I bought a really Quilty golden eagle with a floating pick up from Lanning Moser and I still have that guitar and I love that guitar
I took that to CME and I had Phil the repair tech guy there really worked at Guitar over I had him out a spare pickguard that came with the guitar back on the guitar and had him put Shaden hidden controls under the
It's a really sweet piece and so easy to play
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I wouldn't mind tracking this one down.
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