Jan Raeven Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I own a Korean built Epiphone Sheraton II. Contrary to the specification on the Epi website, my guitar has a 25.5 inch scale length. I assume the 24.75 inch scale length mentioned in the specs is correct. Does anyone know the story behind 25.5 scale Sheratons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 That's odd. The Gibson and Epiphone semi-hollows have always been 24.75 scale length. I have never measured any of mine. I guess I've always trusted them to be that length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Raeven Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 That's why I was so surprised when I measured my Sheraton. My other Gibsons (with the exception of a '77 RD Custom) are all 24.75. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewk Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I just measured my 1997 Korean Sheraton, it's 24.75. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpdeluxe Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 How did you measure? The correct way is to measure the distance from the nut to the 12th fret, and then double it. This method disregards bridge adjustments made for intonation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewk Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I went nut to bridge, there's no more than a quarter inch of possible error even measuring to the bridge. By the same measurement my Fender Jaguar was 24" and my Fender acoustic was 25.5", which is the specified scale length for each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpdeluxe Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I went nut to bridge. Go back and read what I said, re-measure by my method, and get back to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewk Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Yeah, I understood what you wrote, and frankly I'm disinclined to do that. You might like to drop the patronising tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpdeluxe Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Facts are not discovered by that route. You have a guitar which you say has a different scale length from all others of the same make and model, and tell us you didn't use the universal method of measuring scale. I was drawing a pretty obvious conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Yeah' date=' I understood what you wrote, and frankly I'm disinclined to do that. You might like to drop the patronising tone.[/quote'] Darn. I really did want to know if some of the Sheratons were indeed long scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PP_CS336 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Facts are not discovered by that route. You have a guitar which you say has a different scale length from all others of the same make and model' date=' and tell us you didn't use the universal method of measuring scale. I was drawing a pretty obvious conclusion.[/quote'] Jan Raeven, I think lpdeluxe is giving you good advice and is not being condescending. As he said he's just stating the way that scale is really measured in the guitar world. If your scale is longer than the norm after you remeasure, then I would contact Epiphone/Gibson and see what gives as that may cause you some problems. Just some friendly advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Never mind all this...I want to hear from the topic starter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermionik Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Interest piqued, I measured mine - spot on 12&3/8" making the expected 24.75 inch scale. Checked full scale nut to bridge and top-E 24&25/32 (just over) with bottom-E 24&31/32 (nearly 25"). (1996 Samick Sheraton II.) Jan - please put us all out of our misery - measure nut to 12th and the two E-strings nut to bridge. You may have a strange and long Sherry..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generation zero Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Could be fake... Just throwing that out there. My fake PRS is 24 3/4", where by PRS specs it should be 25". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermionik Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 . . Jan - you still around? Help us out here - what measurements DO you have..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewk Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Although there seems to be some confusion here, I measured from nut to 12th fret on my 97 Sheraton, and it's 12 3/8 inches, exactly what it ought to be. However the original poster, NOT me, is the one who claimed he had a Sheri of non-standard scale length. In that context "go back and read what I said" has a certain irony to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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