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What wood is this?

  • 20-12-2020 09:02PM
    #1
    Davion Easy Cucumber
    Posts: 919 ✭✭✭ Davion Easy Cucumber


    Hi all,

    Any opinions as to what wood this is? Thanks.


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  • #2
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    What's the guitar? Might be easier to narrow it down that way.


  • #3
    Davion Easy Cucumber
    Posts: 919 ✭✭✭ Davion Easy Cucumber


    feylya wrote: »
    What's the guitar? Might be easier to narrow it down that way.

    Hi feylya. Yeah I didn't give too many clues. : )

    It's a 2003 Epiphone Sheraton VS ii Pro made in Unsung factory. A very well made guitar.

    I was thinking that it might be a Deluxe model, however the Deluxe model is listed as having a maple top, it doesn't look to me to be what I know to be maple, but the swirls are a bit unusual so I was wondering is it a type of maple?

    The truss rod cover is also a "Gibson" cover and not the regular Epiphone "E' used around the 2003 time for standard Sheratons.

    I'm sure there are a lot of occasional inconsistencies when the Sheraton production was moved from different factories, identification of the top wood might confirm it

    Cheers !


  • #4
    Davion Easy Cucumber
    Posts: 919 ✭✭✭ Davion Easy Cucumber


    I might be confusing myself here. I now think that most Epi Sheratons have a maple top.

    Going by the attached details, the Deluxe version had the "Gibson" truss rod cover.

    http://epiphonewiki.org/index/Sheraton.php


  • #5
    martinedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    either maple, sycamore or London Plane.

    you'd need a DNA test to tell them apart though!


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