The Shergold Guitars Homepage would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year for 2002 - and may you all find the Shergolds you are looking for!

Large work commitments and flu/bronchitis have prevented me from catching up on some of the chores around the site of late.
However I have somehow added a beautiful Marathon Eight string bass to the collection amongst all this...

Activity in the Shergold Chatroom is continuing to tick over - but we'd love more "Shergoldians" to join in! A number of the other successful Genesis Shergold bidders (now 'owners' I suppose) have already joined in and we hope the rest will follow.
Details on the Homepages Genesis purchase further delayed by a recent burst of musical creativity!
But that hasn't stopped me finding another reasonably priced Custom Masquerader, a lot closer to home than expected! (details to follow).

Activity in the Shergold Chatroom (thanks to Ian for setting this up) is picking up - but we'd love more "Shergoldians" to join in! A number of the other successful Genesis Shergold bidders (now 'owners' I suppose) have already joined in and we hope the rest will follow.
Details on the Homepages Genesis purchase slightly delayed at the moment due to cricket! But now thats over I should be getting on to doing something about the half guitar...
Also...the Editor will be meeting one of the Founders of Shergold this week, Mr Norman Houlder, to chat about his time with the company and hopefully clear up a few of those mysteries that are hanging around...

The Genesis auction on Ebay is pretty much over now - a few items that slipped through are relisted, but all the Shergolds have gone.
Amongst fierce bidding for the other lots, the homepage has managed to secure the top half six string guitar from the famous demountable double neck set relatively easily. A detailed review will appear as soon as I have it in my possession.
In the mean time a few more "normal" Shergolds have joined the homepage collection.

Genesis Auction
This is happening now on Ebay and includes a number of Shergolds previously owned by Mike Rutherford.
Expect to pay lots if you want to buy one of these...

It is very unlikely that the Homepage will end up with any of these as people will pay well over the real value of a guitar when it has been owned by a celebrity, and I prefer to spend money saving otherwise ignored Shergolds. However, if anyone wants to make a donation, you know where to send it to!

June 29th: Note to all those concerned about the future of the clip together Shergolds. These most famous of the Shergolds as reviewed for this site are not included in the Ebay sale. They are still very much owned by Mike.

Welcome to the new home of the Shergold Guitars homepage...
The main difference you'll notice is that the frames have gone - this should make navigation and bookmarking easier, as well as saving me from maintaining some strange Javascript. Also, now that the site is database enabled (using PHP and MySQL, there is fully searchable serial number database available. More new things like that are coming soon...

The Shergold Guitars homepage is on the move...
With the growing size of the site, and the need to improve the facilities offered, the Shergold Guitars homepage is going to be moving to a new service provider over the next few weeks. Hopefully, the disruption should be minimal.
Once transferred, you'll find that things look a little different and that there are some new features. I'll be working on further enhancements in the new future.

A few minor updates - I've been doing MSc coursework and preparing for a large exam on my Open University course recently, so have had limited time available...
However I have been able to revamp the Classified pages so that they are easier to use and maintain.

A load more transcripts of original reviews and brochures are up now, following the purchase of a new scanner with decent OCR software, and a new Custom Masquerader has joined the collection.
Also, check our new partner site - "The Burns Guitar Museum" - for information on a formidable collection of classic Burns guitars.

Despite the lack of recent updates I am still here - I've just be very busy with work (see the E4 website for some of whats been keeping me occupied) and study over the last couple of months.