It featured the same double rounded horns, and had similarly placed electronics. Gibson used the same body for the Sheraton as it was using for its new ES-335, ES-345, and ES-355 models.
Epiphone guitars were made by Gibson up until 1970, when production moved to Japan, and major design changes began to occur. This was followed by the introduction of a twin-pickup, double-cut thinline semi-hollowbody, the Sheraton. They reworked Epiphone's old Century archtop into a thinline electric fitted with a single P-90. In 1958, Gibson began to expand upon its Epiphone line of semi-hollow guitars. The company was bought out by their main rival, Gibson in 1957. In 1951, a four-month-long strike forced a relocation of Epiphone from New York to Philadelphia.
Control of the company went to his brothers, Orphie and Frixo. Under the ownership of Epaminondas ('Epi') Stathopoulo, Epiphone was a leading manufacturer of hollow-body and archtop guitars.
