Epiphone Sheraton owners. Now New guitar day.

markj

http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a512/markj49/IMG_2505_zpscfcj9m3u.jpg

Voxman

Mark, just copy and paste the pics from photobucket - much easier. 

markj

Voxman said:

Hiya Mark - you haven't posted the pics correctly, so I've posted these below for you.  Looks very nice and many congrats:

Thanks for that. I'm more than pleased with it. Its lovely to play and its very resonant too. Strum a chord and you can feel it through the body, neck and headstock. Great sustain as well. Who needs a 335?

markj

Any other Sheraton owners in praise of these great guitars.

rlw

Getting mine back from Feline on Saturday.
Stormy Mondays, tonepros bridge & tailpiece, fancy new loom with CTS pots and orange drop thingies, new locking tuners but I can't remember what.  Should be a bit better I hope.

markj

The standard guitar is very good, with the upgrades it'll be fantastic. It's my favourite guitar at the moment and I've got two Prs,s one being a DGT and also a American vintage reissue 64 tele. I had an Epiphone les Paul many years ago but the Sheraton is in a different class compared to that. 

markj

rlw said:

Getting mine back from Feline on Saturday.
Stormy Mondays, tonepros bridge & tailpiece, fancy new loom with CTS pots and orange drop thingies, new locking tuners but I can't remember what.  Should be a bit better I hope.

Please report back with your views on the upgrades.

NorthernPaul

Lovely guitar that, would quite fancy one myself in the future.

markj

You wont be disappointed.

rlw

Update on the updates.

Feline did their usual amazing job on my Sheraton - very low action, intonation as good as it gets, pickups heights all beautifully balanced and you would never know that it wasn't all original including the new, different sized, bridge.

Now for the difficult bit. 

The guitar sounds amazing, end of.  The airiness is there for all to hear.  The sustain is remarkable compared to before, as is the tone and range of tones available.  At one point, I went to turn the reverb down on the amp, only to realise it wasn't on.   Even on the high headroom settings on my amp, the tones can go from BB to BG with just a little gain added.  On the 70's Marshall setting, it's a 335 soundalike.  The tone and volume controls really have an effect on the sound too whereas, before, it got quieter or louder, shriller or less shrill.   Absolutely, totally chalk and cheese compared to the standard Sheraton 2.

The problem is, which has had the most effect.  The Stormy Mondays, obviously, have a huge impact but what about the all new wiring, the new bridge, the new tailpiece, the new tuners, the new setup, the new strings?

I should probably have done it one step at a time but that's not my way.  Nor was the experiment cheap, as I doubt it has added £485 to the value of the guitar, but it was very successful and this one is now a keeper without doubt.

If anyone wants to come to Bromley to try it, pm me.

markj

What bridge and tailpiece did you have fitted?

rlw

Tonespros LPM02 - still had to have the body filled and redrilled beacouse of the post spacing on the bridge.

http://www.tonepros.com/lpm02-tonepros-metric-tuneomatictailpiece-set-large-posts/

markj

Any chance of your Sheraton with the upgrades?

rlw

markj said:

Any chance of your Sheraton with the upgrades?

Picture?  Video?

Voxman

rlw said:

Update on the updates.

Feline did their usual amazing job on my Sheraton - very low action, intonation as good as it gets, pickups heights all beautifully balanced and you would never know that it wasn't all original including the new, different sized, bridge.

Now for the difficult bit. 

The guitar sounds amazing, end of.  The airiness is there for all to hear.  The sustain is remarkable compared to before, as is the tone and range of tones available.  At one point, I went to turn the reverb down on the amp, only to realise it wasn't on.   Even on the high headroom settings on my amp, the tones can go from BB to BG with just a little gain added.  On the 70's Marshall setting, it's a 335 soundalike.  The tone and volume controls really have an effect on the sound too whereas, before, it got quieter or louder, shriller or less shrill.   Absolutely, totally chalk and cheese compared to the standard Sheraton 2.

The problem is, which has had the most effect.  The Stormy Mondays, obviously, have a huge impact but what about the all new wiring, the new bridge, the new tailpiece, the new tuners, the new setup, the new strings?

I should probably have done it one step at a time but that's not my way.  Nor was the experiment cheap, as I doubt it has added £485 to the value of the guitar, but it was very successful and this one is now a keeper without doubt.

If anyone wants to come to Bromley to try it, pm me.

You spent £485 on the upgrades??

rlw

Actually a bit more but that's for all the hardware, installation and setup.  

I know - that's dinner for two and a cab home but what the heck..............

markj

rlw said:

markj said:

Any chance of your Sheraton with the upgrades?

Picture?  Video?

Any of the two would be good.

Voxman

rlw said:

Actually a bit more but that's for all the hardware, installation and setup.  

I know - that's dinner for two and a cab home but what the heck..............

For £500 that's gotta be dinner in Paris, overnight at a 4 star hotel, and with first class travel on the Eurostar!

Bridgehouse

rlw said:

Actually a bit more but that's for all the hardware, installation and setup.  

I know - that's dinner for two and a cab home but what the heck..............

Dinner for two??

Did you misread £485 as £48.50??

Ah, you're in the Sahf...

rlw

Bridgehouse said:

rlw said:

Actually a bit more but that's for all the hardware, installation and setup.  

I know - that's dinner for two and a cab home but what the heck..............

Dinner for two??

Did you misread £485 as £48.50??

Ah, you're in the Sahf...

'twas very tongue in cheek.

Actually, far more than I intended to spend but I lost my nerve and bought in the wiring harness and then outsourced all the work to Feline, when I only intended to get them to set it up after I had done all the other work.

Apparently, in blood pressure and swearing terms, I think I got a bargain from Feline......