Beautiful Looking, but, does it play?

Edja

Hi all

I've never been a fan of Epiphone any time I picked one up. But I've read on Harmony Central that the Epihone Sheraton (as opposed to the normal Epiphone 335) are a great guitar with a little bit of tweaking (New pickups)!! Look at this beauty!!

http://cgi.ebay.ie/EPIPHONE-SHERATON-II-SEMI-SOLID-NATURAL-NEU_W0QQitemZ7394043152QQcategoryZ46646QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Are they using real wood, or some kind of crap? Whats the action like? Anybody able to tell me about them!??

Thanks all
Edja

fish-head

I've had a Sherry since last July and have been gigging it regularly since. It's an absolute workhorse. I dont think changing pickups is even all that necessary. You can get some pretty great tones out of the stock ones, the neck pickup is perfect for jazz when clean, when dirtied up it has a great bluesy tone. The bridge is a rythym machine, nice and light but not brittle at all. The middle setting has a good twangy sort of tone.

The action is something to sort out yourself really, get it set up and it'll play like a dream.

You will not regret buying that machine. It's a nicer finish than mine too..

John

Does it come in red?

The_g-man

http://www.thomann.de/thoiw6_epiphone_sheraton_ii_n_prodinfo.html
This looks about the same price as ebay. €35 cheaper than musicstorekoeln.

Seany

John2 wrote:

Does it come in red?

The Sheratons dont come in red...the epiphone dot comes in cherry red but its not really the same guitar as the one posted above.

Personally, I have owned a Sheraton for the past year and a half (just sold it to fund Ricenbacker) and I loved it.