Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 5:25 am
I was curious how many of the 119 original vintage 1959-1969 blonde Sheratons that I could account for, just from poking around on the web. I came up with 10 guitars so far. I'm hoping to update this list as additional guitars are accounted for. If you know of any others, I would love to add them. Also, while I hope this list is accurate, it is possible that it might contain some mistakes - if you see any, please feel free to correct me. Thanks!
1. 174696 (my 1964)
2. 348281 (a 1966 at Dave's Guitar Shop)
3. 40919x (maybe #409191?) (a 1966, listed as a 1965 on eBay)
4. 176830 (a 1964 at RetroFret)
5. 67838 (a 1964 at OK Guitars)
6. 91721 (a 1962 sold by Southside Guitars)
7. 70761 (a 1964 at Heritage Auctions)
8. 898699 (a 1967[?] at Gryphon Stringed Instruments)
9. 307015 (I think it is a 1965; found on a French auction website, was mislabeled as: "807 015")
10. Unknown serial # 1965 with black rear-headstock stinger (from the website vintage-guitar.de)
P.S. It seems like one way to quickly identify a 1966-1969 blonde Sheraton, even just by eyeballing it: I believe it will have *black* reflector knobs, whereas a 1965 and earlier will have *gold* reflector knobs. Of course, I believe you may see other differences (nut width, differences in pickup era, possibly chrome hardware instead of gold hardware), but the knobs (assuming they haven't been changed, which would obviously be very simple to do) seem to be a pretty simple "tell"...
1. 174696 (my 1964)
2. 348281 (a 1966 at Dave's Guitar Shop)
3. 40919x (maybe #409191?) (a 1966, listed as a 1965 on eBay)
4. 176830 (a 1964 at RetroFret)
5. 67838 (a 1964 at OK Guitars)
6. 91721 (a 1962 sold by Southside Guitars)
7. 70761 (a 1964 at Heritage Auctions)
8. 898699 (a 1967[?] at Gryphon Stringed Instruments)
9. 307015 (I think it is a 1965; found on a French auction website, was mislabeled as: "807 015")
10. Unknown serial # 1965 with black rear-headstock stinger (from the website vintage-guitar.de)
P.S. It seems like one way to quickly identify a 1966-1969 blonde Sheraton, even just by eyeballing it: I believe it will have *black* reflector knobs, whereas a 1965 and earlier will have *gold* reflector knobs. Of course, I believe you may see other differences (nut width, differences in pickup era, possibly chrome hardware instead of gold hardware), but the knobs (assuming they haven't been changed, which would obviously be very simple to do) seem to be a pretty simple "tell"...