With its striking bridge design, block inlays, and fairly highly figured rosewood back and sides, the Gibson Heritage Custom was added to their lineup in 1971, as a ‘high end low end’ guitar, put onto the top end of their budget Heritage series of guitars to fill the void between their lower end and flagship guitars.

Well, when you add 50 years of hard playing to a relatively inexpensive guitar, the joy is that it both becomes quite a nice guitar and also retains its relatively inexpensive status, as this one has, thanks to its lifetime of use.

With solid spruce, solid Indian rosewood, and a three piece mahogany neck, this guitar is ostensibly the same as many of Gibson’s high end guitars from the time, including Gibson’s double X brace, which left the market unceremoniously at the end of the 1970’s after its introduction early in the decade.

Fairly played in/beat up, with a reglued (rosewood, interestingly, not the usual ebony) bridge, reglued fingerboard extension, repaired heel crack, and lots of little marks here and there. The neck angle is also pretty low, but the price is as well!

Comes with the original case.