Shergold

Shergold Guitars, or Shergold Woodcrafts Limited, is an 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. and the new Sherwood guitars models.

Artists

Notable players of Shergold instruments include:

• Mike Rutherford (Genesis)
• Tim Smith (Cardiacs)
• Christian Hayes (Cardiacs)
• Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order)
• Gillian Gilbert (New Order)
• Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order)
• Julian Cope
• P. Paul Fenech (The Meteors)
• Marty Willson-Piper (The Church)
• GP Hall
• Gary Marx (The Sisters of Mercy)
• Porl King (miserylab)
• Gary Numan
• Bob Walsh (The Dooleys)
• Matt Stevens (The Fierce and the Dead)

Models

Some of the models produced by Shergold were:

Guitars

• Masquerader
• Modulator
• Custom Double (double neck)
• Meteor
• Nu Meteor
• Cavalier
• Activator
• Trojan

Basses

• Marathon
• Modulator

Notes

References

External links

• Shergold tribute website