identify I need you to identify the year of a Sheraton !

[VIQ]

Hello everyone,
I hope you are well,

I need your experience and knowledge to identify an Epiphone Sheraton without a serial number.

It seems that it is from the beginning of 1990, but the seller wasn't sure either...
Also, I can't identify the brand of the head mechanism.

Here are some pictures if you want to help me : 
(pickups , electronics and pickguard have been changed as you can see)

 

Thank you so much !

[pohatu771]

Without a serial number, I can only estimate 1990-1993. 

The tuners are Ping.

[VIQ]

Thank you !

14 minutes ago, pohatu771 said:

Without a serial number, I can only estimate 1990-1993. 

The tuners are Ping.

Thank you !

[pohatu771]

19 hours ago, VIQ said:

Thank you !

Thank you !

Looking it over again, I'll extend that to about 1996. The original pickguard would have been a great indicator of which part of the early 90s it is from. I'd still bet it's 1990-1993, though. I'm very confident it is not a 1989.

[VIQ]

2 hours ago, pohatu771 said:

Looking it over again, I'll extend that to about 1996. The original pickguard would have been a great indicator of which part of the early 90s it is from. I'd still bet it's 1990-1993, though. I'm very confident it is not a 1989.

Thank you for your time Pohatu !

Yes, I also think it's def not an 89. Unfortunately I don't have the pickguard, I got it like that :/

here is another picture, and the case. Maybe it can help

Edited April 20, 2022 by VIQ

[mihcmac]

20 hours ago, VIQ said:

Thank you for your time Pohatu !

Yes, I also think it's def not an 89. Unfortunately I don't have the pickguard, I got it like that 😕

here is another picture, and the case. Maybe it can help

The serial number should be inside the body visible from the F-Hole.

[VIQ]

1 hour ago, mihcmac said:

The serial number should be inside the body visible from the F-Hole.

yes, I thought about it too, but there is nothing  :(

[Matt4356]

I can't offer any more information other than to say I have a 1993 Sheraton made in the Samick factory.

This one I assume would also be Samick from the bridge.

Mine has the same ping brand tuners.

Mine however has the serial number and Made in Korea screen printed in gold on the back of the headstock. The tree of life inlay is also slightly different on mine to this one.

The one thing that seems to be fairly consistent until early 2000's is a lack of consistency!

[VIQ]

Thanks for everything guys, it seems that this is a 1992, I had confirmation from luthier and other forum !

Now I would like to give it a new look ! ahaha, it's a really good guitar

[jmendoza]

It looks identical to my 1989 Korean Sheri. But is has replacement pick-ups, the pickup rings and pick guard are not original, gold pick-up covers came on the originals.  Someone   added a cream  Les Paul parts: pickup rings , pickguard,  and switch position ring.

So it has "new"look compared to the original.   I would put covers back on the pick-ups to reduce the 60/120 Hz noise you get  when they are removed, and get rid of the cream colored plastics  as they are out of place.   I removed  the original pick-guard which had 5 ply binding but made from imitation printed tortoise shell and looked really cheap.  I cut one from 3 ply black pickguard material and copied the shape of a ES-335 dot pickguard.   Someone obviously replaced the pick-ups, as the originals really sucked. I put PAFs in my MIK Sheri, and that woke it up 🙂

Not exactly sure when,  but sometime before the millennium, Epiphone discontinued the fret nibs on the binding, which had been a long standing Epi and Gibson  high quality feature.   Gibson then also quit doing the fret nibs on all guitars except the Pauls, which was a shame .   I think this is why the early MIK  Epis are now more valued than later Asian produced Epis.