You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons:

This IP address has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.
This does not affect your ability to read Wikipedia pages.
Most people who see this message have done nothing wrong. Some kinds of blocks restrict editing from specific service providers or telecom companies in response to recent abuse or vandalism, and can sometimes affect other users who are unrelated to that abuse. Review the information below for assistance if you do not believe that you have done anything wrong.

The IP address or range 54.163.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by ‪Blablubbs‬ for the following reason(s):

The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider or colocation provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts and colocation providers may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host or colocation provider because it hides your IP address, much like a proxy or VPN.
We recommend that you attempt to use another connection to edit. For example, if you use a proxy or VPN to connect to the internet, turn it off when editing Wikipedia. If you edit using a mobile connection, try using a Wi-Fi connection, and vice versa. If you are using a corporate internet connection, switch to a different Wi-Fi network. If you have a Wikipedia account, please log in.
If you do not have any other way to edit Wikipedia, you will need to request an IP block exemption.

How to appeal if you are confident that your connection does not use a colocation provider's IP address:
If you are confident that you are not using a web host, you may appeal this block by adding the following text on your talk page: ((unblock|reason=Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is _______. Place any further information here. ~~~~)). You must fill in the blank with your IP address for this block to be investigated. Your IP address can be determined here. Alternatively, if you wish to keep your IP address private you can use the unblock ticket request system. There are several reasons you might be editing using the IP address of a web host or colocation provider (such as if you are using VPN software or a business network); please use this method of appeal only if you think your IP address is in fact not a web host or colocation provider.

Administrators: The IP block exemption user right should only be applied to allow users to edit using web host in exceptional circumstances, and requests should usually be directed to the functionaries team via email. If you intend to give the IPBE user right, a CheckUser needs to take a look at the account. This can be requested most easily at SPI Quick Checkuser Requests. Unblocking an IP or IP range with this template is highly discouraged without at least contacting the blocking administrator.

This block will expire on 17:28, 10 March 2024.

Even when blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page, as well as email administrators and other editors.

For information on how to proceed, please read the FAQ for blocked users and the guideline on block appeals. The guide to appealing blocks may also be helpful.

Other useful links: Blocking policy · Help:I have been blocked
Your IP address is in a range that has been blocked on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis. The block was made by ‪Jon Kolbert‬. The reason given is Open proxy/Webhost: See the help page if you are affected .
- Start of block: 18:27, 12 November 2023
- Expiry of block: 18:27, 12 November 2028
Your current IP address is 54.163.179.242. The blocked range is 54.163.0.0/16. Please include all above details in any queries you make. If you believe you were blocked by mistake, you can find additional information and instructions in the No open proxies global policy. Otherwise, to discuss the block please post a request for review on Meta-Wiki. You could also send an email to the stewards VRT queue at stewards@wikimedia.org including all above details.

You can view and copy the source of this page:

((For|the people with the name Shergold|Shergold (surname)))
((Refimprove|date=February 2020))
((Infobox company
| name = Shergold
| logo = Shergold guitars logo.png
| logo_size = 130px
| type =  [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = [[Musical instrument]]s
| fate = 
| predecessor = <!-- or: | predecessors = -->
| successor = <!-- or: | successors = -->
| founded = ((start date and age|1967|10)) 
| founder = <!-- or: | founders = -->
| defunct = <!-- ((End date|YYYY|MM|DD)) -->
| hq_location_city = [[Harold Wood]]
| hq_location_country = [[England]]
| area_served = <!-- or: | areas_served = -->
| key_people = 
| products = [[Electric guitar]]s
| owner = <!-- or: | owners = -->
| num_employees = 
| num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) -->
| parent = Barnes & Mullins 
| website = 
))

'''Shergold Guitars''', or '''Shergold Woodcrafts Limited''', is an [[England|English]] [[guitar manufacturing]] company established in October 1967 by former [[Burns London]] employees Jack Golder and Norman Houlder. Based in [[East London]], the company moved from [[Forest Gate]] to [[Harold Wood]] in 1973. 

Shergold Guitars is currently a [[subsidiary]] of Barnes & Mullins since it was acquired in 2015.<ref>[https://www.bandm.co.uk/our-brands Our brands] on B&M website, 19 Oct 2019</Ref>

== History ==
Initially the company concentrated on producing woodwork for other companies, principally for [[Dallas Arbiter]] under the Hayman brand (until 1975); for Jim Burns himself under the Burns London banner; "Ned Callan" and Rosetti. When the contract for the Hayman guitars came to an end, the Shergold company found themselves with significant stocks of part finished instruments and raw materials. With this stock they launched their first guitars under their own brand name from late 1975.

Shergold concentrated on guitar production until 1982, when a downturn in the guitar market (especially for home grown instruments) meant that they returned to general custom joinery producing furniture, and only undertaking guitar work on a custom order basis. In 1983, Norman left the company to emigrate to [[Australia]], but would return to the country (but not to Shergold) within a few years. In 1991, Jack began making new Shergold guitars - the Limited Edition Masquerader - due to a rising interest at that time in British guitars from the 1970s. This revival was short-lived, as Jack died in 1992. The Shergold company closed shortly afterwards.

Shergold pioneered features that would be used by other manufacturers (bi-directional [[truss rod]], semi-[[neck-through]]-body on the Cavalier), and others that have been forgotten (interchangeable control electronics on the Modulator series). Visually, the guitar bodies were slab-sided, featured arcane [[blackletter]] lettering and presented a logo of a man carving a guitar body, a style that was often criticised by contemporary reviews.

In 2015, Shergold Guitars was purchased by Brian Cleary and Bruce Perrin of Barnes & Mullins Ltd, the original UK distributor of Shergold guitars. One year later, [[Patrick Eggle|Patrick James Eggle]] became a shareholder. Eggle is a British guitar builder responsible for Patrick James Eggle electric and acoustic guitars, and the designer of Faith guitars <ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.faithguitars.com/|title=Home - Faith Acoustic Guitars &#124; Winner of The UK's Best Acoustic Guitar &#124; UK Design by Patrick James Eggle|website=Faithguitars.com))</ref> and the new Sherwood guitars models.

== Artists ==
Notable players of Shergold instruments include:
[[File:MikeRutherfordGenesis.jpg|thumb|200px|Mike Rutherford playing his double-neck Modulator in concert, 1980]]
((div col|colwidth=30em))
*[[Mike Rutherford]] ([[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]) ((refn|He had a set of double-neck Modulators custom-made in 1977 which could be split in half and interchanged.|group=note|name=ruther))
*[[Tim Smith (Cardiacs)|Tim Smith]] ([[Cardiacs]])
*[[Christian Hayes]] ([[Cardiacs]])
*[[Bernard Sumner]] ([[Joy Division]], [[New Order (band)|New Order]]) ((refn|Particularly on the ''[[Unknown Pleasures]]'' album.|group=note|name=summ))
*[[Gillian Gilbert]] ([[New Order (band)|New Order]])
*[[Peter Hook]] ([[Joy Division]], [[New Order (band)|New Order]]) ((refn|Played six-string Marathon basses.|group=note|name=six))
*[[Julian Cope]] ((refn|Played Custom dobles.|group=note|name=cust))
*P. Paul Fenech ([[The Meteors]])
*[[Marty Willson-Piper]] ([[The Church (band)|The Church]])
* [[GP Hall]] ((refn|Played a modified Shergold six-string bass with a half-fretted, half-fretless neck.|group=note|name=hall))
* [[Gary Marx]] ([[The Sisters of Mercy]]) ((refn|Played a Masquerader.|group=note|name=marxx))
* [[Porl King]] ([[miserylab]])
* [[Gary Numan]] ((refn|Owns a Modulator bass which he initially wrote [[Cars (song)|"Cars" (song)]] on.|group=note))
* Bob Walsh ([[The Dooleys]]) ((refn|Played a Modulator bass.|group=note|name=walsh))
((div col end))

== Models ==
Some of the models produced by Shergold were:<ref>[https://www.shergold.co.uk/models.html Production models] on Shergold Guitars tribute website</ref>
=== Guitars ===
[[File:Hard Rock Cafe Florence - Guitars - Mike Rutherford (Genesis).JPG|thumb|250px|[[Mike Rutherford]]'s 12-string guitar exhibited at the Hard Rock Cafe in Florence]]
((div col|colwidth=30em))
* Masquerader
* Modulator
* Custom Double ([[Multi-neck guitar|double neck]])
* Meteor
* Nu Meteor
* Cavalier
* Activator
* Trojan 
((div col end))

=== Basses ===
* [[Shergold Marathon|Marathon]] 
* Modulator

== Notes ==
((Reflist|group=note))

== References ==
((Reflist))

==External links==
((Commons cat|Shergold Guitars))
* [http://www.shergold.co.uk/ Shergold tribute website]

((Guitar brands))

[[Category:Guitar manufacturing companies]]
[[Category:Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:1967 establishments in the United Kingdom]]

Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page (help):

Shergold (edit)
Template:Ambox (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Cite web (view source) (protected)
Template:Comma separated entries (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Commons cat (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Commons category (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Div col (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Div col/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Div col end (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Find sources mainspace (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:For (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Guitar brands (edit)
Template:Hlist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:Infobox (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Infobox company (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:MONTHNAME (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:MONTHNUMBER (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Main other (view source) (protected)
Template:More citations needed (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Navbox (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Plainlist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:Refimprove (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Reflist (view source) (protected)
Template:Reflist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:Refn (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Replace (view source) (protected)
Template:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Sister project (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Small (view source) (protected)
Template:Start date and age (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Template other (view source) (protected)
Template:Trim (view source) (protected)
Template:Years or months ago (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Yesno (view source) (protected)
Module:Arguments (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/blacklist (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/shared (view source) (protected)
Module:Check for clobbered parameters (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Check for unknown parameters (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1 (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/COinS (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Find sources (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/config (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/links (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources mainspace (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:For (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Format link (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Hatnote (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Hatnote/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Hatnote list (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:InfoboxImage (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Message box (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/ambox.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/configuration (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Separated entries (view source) (protected)
Module:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Side box/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:String (view source) (protected)
Module:TableTools (view source) (protected)
Module:Unsubst (view source) (protected)
Module:WikidataIB (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB/nolinks (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB/titleformats (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Yesno (view source) (protected)

Return to Shergold.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergold"