EPIPHONE
EPIPHONE SHERATON II PRO 2 NA GOLD HARDWARE NATURAL SEMI HOLLOW ELECTRIC GUITAR
ARCHTOP EXCELLENCE FROM THE MASTERS
John Lee Hooker once described the original Sheraton as an “outdid 335” for its classic double cutaway shape, striking fingerboard inlay and elegant ivory and black binding on the top, back, neck, headstock and f-holes.
The new Sheraton-II PRO takes that up a notch and honours Epiphone’s most revered thin-line archtop semi-hollowbody electric guitar with ProBucker pickups, coil-tapping and a Graphtech NuBone XL nut.
Originally released in 1959, the inspiration for the “thin-line” or ES (Electric-Spanish) Series has its roots in Les Paul’s first solidbody guitar, “The Log,” that Les built in Epiphone’s factory in Manhattan in 1940. “The Log” was made from Epiphone parts with a 4″ x 4″ piece of pinewood down the middle.
The ES Series is also semi-hollow with a solid centre making it more resistant to feedback than a completely hollow archtop guitar.
The Sheraton-II PRO has a hand-set 5-piece laminated hard maple/walnut 24.75″ scale neck with a beautiful rosewood fingerboard featuring block and triangle pearloid and abalone inlays.
There are 22 medium-jumbo frets and a large vintage-style “tree of life” motif “Clipped Ear” headstock. The Epiphone Sheraton-II PRO also features the new Graph Tech NuBone XL nut. Graph Tech engineer each NuBone XL nut to be as hard as bone ad to last a lifetime without chipping or cracking while delivering consistent tone and string balance as well as precise string spacing.
EPIPHONE ProBUCKER HUMBUCKING PICKUPS
The Sheraton II-PRO now features Epiphone’s critically acclaimed ProBucker humbuckers. The first humbuckers (often called PAF or “Patent Applied For” for the tell-tale sticker found on the back of the pickups) were made at the Epiphone/Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan in the late ’50s and have acquired a mythical status among guitar players.
Epiphone ProBucker pickups are made with the same alloy as the originals – 18% nickel-silver unit bases and covers – along with Sand cast Alnico II magnets and high quality 4-conductor lead wire to provide that elusive PAF tone. Each ProBucker pickup is also vacuum wax potted to eliminate microphonic hum and squeal.
The Epiphone Sheraton-II PRO has a ProBucker-2 in the neck position and a slightly hotter ProBucker-3 in the lead position. Both pickups also have coil-tapping via their individual volume controls. Coil-tapping allows a player to turn a humbucker pickup into a single coil pickup for endless tone combinations. Each ProBucker pickup’ volume and tone control use 500K Ohm potentiometers along with a 3-way pickup selector with an ivory-colored toggle cap.
EPIPHONE GOLD HARDWARE
The Epiphone Sheraton II-PRO has been fitted with rock solid nickel hardware in elegant gold with an unbeatable LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and StopBar tailpiece combo. Tuning is easy and reliable with gold Grover Rotomatic machine heads with a pro-level 18:1 tuning ratio. The Sheraton-II PRO is strung at the factory with D’Addario 10-46 gauge strings and given a PRO-SCM setup before shipping.
EPIPHONE SHERATON II PRO FEATURES:
o Body shape: Double cutaway
o Body type: Semi-hollow chambered body
o Body material: Laminated Maple
o Body finish: Gloss Lacquer
o Orientation: Right handed
o Neck shape: ’60s SlimTaper
o Neck wood: Maple with walnut
o Joint: Glued Set-Neck
o Scale length: 24.75″
o Truss rod: Standard
o Neck finish: Gloss Lacquer
o Fretboard Material: Rosewood
o Fretboard Radius: 12″
o Fret size: Medium jumbo
o Number of frets: 22
o Fretboard Inlays: Block and Triangle
o Nut width: 1.687″ (42.8mm)
o Neck Pickup: ProBucker 2
o Bridge Pickup: ProBucker 3
o Special electronics: Volume controls with coil tap
o Control layout: Volume 1, Volume 2, Tone 1, Tone 2
o Pickup switch: 3-way Toggle
o Bridge: Tune-o-matic
o Tailpiece: Stopbar
o Tuning machines: Grover Rotomatic
o Hardware Finish: Gold
o Headstock Decoration: Vintage “Large Clipped Ear” with Mother of Pearl “Vine” Inlay
o Case: Sold separately
o Setup: PRO-SCM
