Vintage Shergold Pictures Up!!

[jibidy]

Its a Shergold custom Masquerader and from the serial number i can date it to 1977, so its very old. It is in very good condition neck is perfect and no major dents or scratches.

Its my girlfriends nans and shes wants to know the value as she is moving out and needs money.

Ive been able to find out that it was between 160 and 170 pounds in 1976.

Its really nice and i might have to go for it myself. If i do i'll post pictures.

Cheers all.

[Philly Q]

No idea what it's worth, but I do remember Mike Rutherford had a Shergold bass/12 string doubleneck many years ago.  He might have had some 6/12 models too.  And when I was at university there was a local band called The Tallboys, their guitarist played a Shergold (or possibly a Hayman).  I always thought they were pretty cool.

This page might help, but I've no idea how up-to-date it is:

http://www.shergold.co.uk/buying.html

[WezV]

fairly nice 70's british make.  i have seen them priced between £100-£700.  the £700 is unrealistic and just because someone thinks they have a valuable guitar.  these are not valuable, just slightly interesting... and quite cool - even with the badly designed headstock

[PhilKing]

I used to sell Shergold's in the 70's.  They were pretty good guitars (the Hayman's guitars are just the same with different pickups because the guy's who made them were the same).  Mike Rutherford was probably their best known user.  Check out this link for more info http://www.shergold.co.uk/.  I'm not sure how much they are worth nowadays though.  Probably somewhere around their original price.

The hole in the headstock was from the original Hayman logo which was clear with an H embeded in it and it went through the headstock.

[WezV]

i will say this... not easy to modify, at least if my expereince with a hayman 1010 was anything to go by
http://www.shergold.co.uk/gallery.html?item_id=37

the pickups were all mounted to a pair of aluminium plates which you can see through the pickguard in that link.  Basically it was one large assemby of metal and magnets that dropped into the front of the guitar

now i took the pickups apart on mine (broken anyway) to find coils that pulled right off the pickup in one go and kinda resembled something that comes off an old hairbrush - no effort to prevent microphony at all

[jibidy]

Seems you got the wrong one philking. Heres the one.

http://www.shergold.co.uk/gallery.html?filename=hpc_custmasq6_1.jpg

As you can see it doesnt have the clear hole through headstock logo, but the black triangle shaped badge.

Im still considering it. It looks really nice and looks like a fun challenging project.

I think I'll have a closer look before deciding wether to buy.

[Sollophonic]

Go for it but dont pay too much IMO.

Shergolds/haymans were the guitars to have in the late 70s/early 80s as the output from Fender and Gibson was not only too expensive but was questionable quality too.

Many Punk/post punk bands used them. Peter Hook and Bernard Albrecht from Joy Div and New order used them, as did bands other bands. I would jump at the chance for a Shergold myself, at the time that they were available I had to make do with Antorias, Hondos and Satellites.

I'd love an old Shergold Masquerader, or Meteor. Cracking guitars, and true innnovators too. But sadly not worth what some folks are asking for them. Good playable guitars, but not in the same league price wise as others.

Again, dont pay too much, but they are a pretty playable guitar

[FELINEGUITARS]

We did a fret dress and clean up on one last year - came out great - was really pleased with it

[PhilKing]

Seems you got the wrong one philking. Heres the one.

http://www.shergold.co.uk/gallery.html?filename=hpc_custmasq6_1.jpg

As you can see it doesnt have the clear hole through headstock logo, but the black triangle shaped badge.

Im still considering it. It looks really nice and looks like a fun challenging project.

I think I'll have a closer look before deciding wether to buy.

Check carefully - a lot have the hole and the black badge just covers it.

[jibidy]

Yep my mistake philking hole and black cover :lol:

All that needs doing is refret for the zero fret and new nut. other than that it looks good and plays nicely.

I bought it for £60 by the way. Thats seemed reasonable for a nice vintage axe to me.

[PhilKing]

I think for £60 you probably have a bit of a bargain there.  They were not bad guitars at all, though I'm not sure how the pickups stack up. 

[WezV]

I will pay you £65!!

seriously, i think you would be looking £200+ on ebay.  We need some pics

[Jonesy76]

£60 is a steal compared to what that would go for on eBay.
I brought my old 1967 Shaftesbury LP Black Beauty for £25 from someone at work.  I loved the thing and thought it would be quite nice to have a pair, but they go for nearly £200 in nice condition on eBay so that should give you some idea of how these things go up in value when they're exposed to enough people.

[jibidy]

Thats very nice to hear :). I'll post some piccys soon. I think i'll see if someone will do the zero fret and nut for me *cough* you busy Jonothan (feline)?? *cough*

The pickups are nice. It has three three way switches. One for each pickup and a pickup selector. Splits and phases i think. Split sounds good. and full buckers sound great, and vintagey. Quite dark compared to my emerald Epi SG.

Its incredibly warm clean, then stomp for distortion and its too think to wade through(but it ain't muddy). Almost like a big muff!! Stomp the big muff and its insane haha.

I like it. Heres a quick phone pic. I'll get some gooduns tomorrow maybe.

[WezV]

so its in a nice condition then