An Epiphone Icon hailed by blues legend John Lee Hooker as “an out-did 335,” the Sheraton has been renowned for decades for its combination of superior tone and beautiful pearloid and abalone inlay. Originally released in 1959, the inspiration for the “thin-line” or ES series has its roots in Les Paul’s first solidbody guitar, “The Log,” that Les built in Epiphones factory in Manhattan in 1940.
Features :
- Body Wood: Laminated Maple
- Top Wood: Laminated Maple
- Neck: 5-pc Hard Maple/Walnut Laminated
- Neck Shape: 1960’s SlimTaper
- Neck Joint: Glued-in, set
- Scale: 24.75″
- Fingerboard: Rosewood with “block and triangle” inlays/Pearloid and Abalone
- Fingerboard Radius: 12″
- Nut: Graphtech NuBone XL
- Nut Width: 1.68″
- Frets: 22 medium jumbo
- Binding: Top; 5-ply (Ivory/Black), Back; 1-ply (Ivory), Neck; 5-ply (Ivory/Black), Headstock; 5-ply (Ivory/Black), “f” Holes; 1-ply (Ivory/Black)
- Headstock: Vintage “Large Clipped Ear” with Mother of Pearl “Vine” Inlay
- Neck Pickup: ProBucker-2
- Bridge Pickup: ProBucker-3
- Controls: Bridge Volume with coil-tapping, Neck Volume with coil-tapping, Bridge Tone, Neck Tone
- Bridge: LockTone Tune-o-matic
- Tailpiece: StopBar
- Truss Rod Cover: 2-ply; (Black/White); Vintage “E” in White
- Hardware: Gold
- Machine Heads: Grover Rotomatics, 18:1 ratio
