Scored my 1st Epiphone Sheraton II

[Texsunburst59]

Found this Sheraton II at a pawnshop this past Friday.

I wasn't sure what it was, but had an idea it was an older Sheraton,and took some pics to figure out what it was.

With the help from an "Epi Guru" , who say my pics, established it was either a VERY late '89, or '90,'91 Sheraton.

I went back Sunday to the pawnshop to  go and negotiate a price for the guitar.

The store was asking $500 for it,but I showed them  on my phone that there was a Sheraton in our local GC in WAY better condition for $369.

I told them I'd rather buy this guitar,but they'd really have to be way lower than the GC Sheraton.

They asked me to make an offer on the guitar, and I said $200 based on the changed out tuners, Stop Bar Tailpiece, and the missing balance string to string adjustment screws on the neck pickup.

The countered my offer with $277  saying that's the best they could do, and I agreed to the price.

I put $30 down and put it on layaway, because I have a guitar on FB Marketplace that I have to sell 1st.

The Schaller tuners are older M6 mini's, and the Schaller Stop Bar  is a '90's  Model 492 Gold Quick Change Stop Bar Tailpiece with adjustment screws ( the screws were removed from this one)

Both these upgrades are worth about $200+, so it made the guitar an even better deal.

Here's the pics I took at the store while the salesperson was  processing the layaway.

 

 

 

[Matt4356]

Nice, i recently picked up a 93 blonde. They are nice, I currently have a 93, an 04 and a 2012. The 93 is by far the better one, that's not to say the others are bad either. 

[Texsunburst59]

1 hour ago, Matt4356 said:

Nice, i recently picked up a 93 blonde. They are nice, I currently have a 93, an 04 and a 2012. The 93 is by far the better one, that's not to say the others are bad either. 

Thanks Matt.

 

I would have loved had it been a Blonde, but that fact that is was one of the early Samcik Sheraton's was fine with me.

 

I can't wait to get it out and see how it sounds and plays after it's been given some TLC and set up properly .

[jmendoza]

That guitar looks similar to  my 1989 Sherri but has some differences:

 

The stop tailpiece looks to be after-market (not Gibson style) the Epiphone logo on the head stock is slightly tilted to the left, and the notch in the "open book" at the top of the peghead is wider than mine. Color is the same as mine and since the gold plating is in good condition, it must have very little play time, as it wears away quickly.

I do not know where mine was made as it has no letters in the serial number, but does date to 1989, which was when it was purchased.

I was given a set of Gibson PAF pick-ups from a 335, with wiring harness and installed them in the Sheraton, which made a huge improvement in its sound. .

 

Jay

[Texsunburst59]

3 hours ago, jmendoza said:

That guitar looks similar to  my 1989 Sherri but has some differences:

 

The stop tailpiece looks to be after-market (not Gibson style) the Epiphone logo on the head stock is slightly tilted to the left, and the notch in the "open book" at the top of the peghead is wider than mine. Color is the same as mine and since the gold plating is in good condition, it must have very little play time, as it wears away quickly.

I do not know where mine was made as it has no letters in the serial number, but does date to 1989, which was when it was purchased.

I was given a set of Gibson PAF pick-ups from a 335, with wiring harness and installed them in the Sheraton, which made a huge improvement in its sound. .

 

Jay

Jay , the Stop Bar Tailpiece and the Tuners are after mark upgrades.

The tuners are Schaller M6 mini tuners that run about $185 if you were to buy a new set.

The Stop Bar Tailpiece is a Schaller Modle 492 Quick Change Tailpiece with the fine tuners(the screw were removed and weren't there when I put it on layaway

After studying the pics, I'm pretty sure the the pickups are USA Gibson pickups and not the original pickups, and there are 2 reasons I think so.

1) the pickup height adjustment screws are slotted head screws (used on older vintage Gibson pickups) and not the phillips head screws the are used with all Korean, Chinese, etc..... import pickups.

2) as you say, the guitar doesn't look used because all the gold plating hasn't been rubbed off like almost all  Korean humbuckers in this era Sheraton II guitars.

I'm pretty sure the gold plating hasn't rubbed off because they're real Gibson humbuckers with quality Gold plating.

I won't know until next week when I go take the guitar out, and get it hope to inspect the underside of the pickups.

It'd be amazing if these were late "60 or early 70's Patent Sticker T-Tops, like the one pictured below

 

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