I like them both about equally and they play about the same for my purposes as both are semi hollow with humbuckers.The Emily Wolfe Sheraton uses a familiar control setup, with a three-way pickup selector joined by a pair of volume controls for each pickup, and two-tone controls. The Sheri is fancier, but the Dot Deluxe is a pretty nice looking guitar as well with the flamed top in sunburst. It was a lot easier to find a dot at that price point though, it took me a year or two of casually looking to find a Sheraton and I ran across a lot of people trying to sell them for $400-500. I think the Dot cost me $280 and the Sheraton was maybe $300 or $330. I have a Dot Deluxe and a Korean Sheraton, got both from pawn shops (the only two pawn show guitars I have actually) and paid similarly for them. It is hard to tell yourself that an Epiphone Dot is anything other than a poor mans 335, but a Sheraton sounds and looks fancier so they can try to squeeze more out of a buyer.Īs someone said in an earlier post, both can be had for a similar price if you shop around. Regarding the OP's question about the difference in prices on Craigslist, I think it is just that it is easier for a seller to convince themselves that a Sheraton should have a higher price.

The Dots I think are usually maple necks rather than mahogany, so the difference between a Sheraton and a Dot will be fairly limited - it's just whether extra stiffness due to the laminations is enough to make a noticeable difference which is going to be arguable. I've never played a laminate neck vintage Sheraton but I've a lot of experience with 335s with three piece laminated maple necks, and they definitely have a consistently different sound than a mahogany necked 335, a bit brasher with a string fundamental. Price wise the Sheraton was an expensive guitar, I forget the exact figures but I think it sat between the mono and stereo versions of the 355.ĭoes the neck material effect the sound? I think so, yes. Once the laminated necks were used up the Sheraton reverted to a mahogany one piece neck.

The Sheraton inherited various ingredients taken from pre-Gibson Epiphone stock including a stock of laminated necks, and the inlays were Epiphone product, but the design was done by Gibson. Gibson introduced the 335 around April 1958, the 355 and Sheraton following at the end of the year.

Just for historical pedantry points, the Sheraton was a Gibson design.

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