Epiphone by Gibson

[Telecster]

I have a Sheraton II guitar, on the headstock it says
Epiphone by Gibson. It has no serial number anywhere.
Nice guitar. I put new tuners, bridge and tail piece on.
But I was wonder what anyone knows about this vintage Sheraton.

 

[Mr. Crow]

This question came up on the Epiphone Forums. One of the Epi experts reported that these were made in Korea between 1986 and 1989 at the Samick plant.

 

[Funkwire]

Until the late 90s, some Epiphone serial numbers were on a sticker on the back of the headstock (like my MIK 1996 G-1275). If they fell off, there were no other markings to identify it.

Mr. Crow's answer if probably as much information as you'll be able to find.

Looks nice...how does it play/sound?

 

[Telecster]

Plays real nice and sounds great. I changed the jack and pots along with the mentioned hardware. Recently I was curious about the angle between the tail piece and bridge. They're not parallel like my LP. Mr Crow's info is about all I have ever able to learn. I also believe that this was during a time that Epiphone/Gibson owned that Samick plant.

 

[steelhead]

sometimes there's a sticker inside and it falls down into the guitar body. Have you checked it out?

 

[Telecster]

When I had the pots changed we looked. Not there.

 

[Jura]

its from late 80's most probably, made in korea..
EDIT: says to himself: "read first than write.."
already answered as I see..
what more do you want to know? As I had one from '91 and apart from nut and headstock inlay they are identical..

 

[Telecster]

I was trying to get the intonation right and determined the radius on the replacement bridge was wrong as was tge string spacing. Not much but just enough for the e strings to fret buzz. So I disassembled the old bridge got out some brasso and cleaned. Finished it off with a littleammonia, not bad. I will reinstall the bridge tonight.

 

[musicofanatic5]

"vintage" Sheraton? Nice maple.

 

[Telecster]

Put the original bridge back in and no more fret buzz. I looked at stumac and guitarfetish but nothing for a Sheraton or ES335 bridge. All listings I saw said
replacement for solid top..ie LP..Any suggestions out there?

 

[StLucifer]

Does the headstock say Epiphone by Gibson? In 1986-87, I wanted a nice new guitar. I went to a Sudbury Ontario musical instrument store and bought a blonde coloured Epiphone semi-acoustic like the one in your pictures. I paid in around $800 for it with a nice hardshell case. It was a very nice guitar. Extremely nice action...as good as a Gibson ES 335 easy. This gorilla on my back forced me to sell it for $300 and I really regret it. The pawn shop gave me $300 in a heart beat for it and I wish I could boot my ass. Don't hesitate, buy it if you can get it for a reasonable price. I'd pay $800 for a new one right now if I could.

 

[supergenius365]

Put the original bridge back in and no more fret buzz. I looked at stumac and guitarfetish but nothing for a Sheraton or ES335 bridge. All listings I saw said
replacement for solid top..ie LP..Any suggestions out there?

If it is like mine, there is no available replacement. Mine is an early 90's and Epiphone made the spacing a bit different than Gibson/replacement bridges for some reason.

 

[Tguy2]

First IT,s NOT VINTAGE. It's old.