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Originally Posted by Blunote
Heritage's 'Prospect' is a smaller, laminate top/back semi hollow that might work for you. It has a 15" lower bout. Then, there's the H-530 with the same dimensions a Gibson ES-335 but Laminated top and back -and fully hollow.
I have a Heritage H-535, an H-155 Millennium, and their version of the Gibson Les Paul Standard, an H-150. There's a level of craftsmanship you feel when you pick them up. Every one is comparable to Gibson Custom Shop product.
IMO, they're the most overlooked gems in the guitar industry.
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I appreciate the extra Heritage info and agree with your observations (based only on what I've read elsewhere). My most recent GAS search just ended with my purchase of a Gibson ES 390, which is a 14" lower bout fully-hollow laminate b/s guitar. For reasons expressed above somewhere, I wanted close to 335 (semi/lam) tone in a smaller package (basically, and rightly or wrongly, I concluded that the smaller body needed to eliminate the center block to get the most interior space for closest 335 tone). Heritage offers the smaller bout in a lam, but not a fully-hollow lam, and its fully-hollows all have 16" bouts. If I decide to try a semi, however, Heritage is at the top of my must-check-it-out list.