Dag 502: I want my Shergold back

In around 1978 I spotted a guitar in the window of my local music shop which looked like half of Mike Rutherfords famous dual neck guitar. It was a Shergold Meteor, and I would spend hours standing outside the window starring at it. My Dad must have felt sorry for me because some time later he took me into the shop and bought it for me. I couldn't believe taht I owned a guitar that was the same make as one used by Genesis (who were my fave rave at the time).

I used that guitar in my first band, a punk band called Cloud 9. We played a number of gigs at local youth clubs, church halls and even at the 'Folk and Blues' night at our school. I really liked the idea of throwing my guitar down on the floor at the end of our gigs, but didn't want to damage it, so I used to put a thick blanket down before each gig. Unfortunatley, it did end up getting quite a few dints in it, but it stil played fine.

Cloud 9 eventually went their separate ways and I had, meanwhile, bought a Korg MS 10 mono synth, and my Shergold ended up just beijng used for messing around as I concentrated on my synth playing. With my trusty MS 10 I played synth for Nova Grace, Neural Circus and then went solo. I ended up doing a solo 'Human League style' gig at another of my school's 'Folk and Blues' nights using my own MS 10 and one ownded by my, then, girlfriend (HJ - who stood at the edge of the stage playing tamberine). The backing track was on tape and I played and sang along to it. The show began with a drum beat and bass line while I waited off stage. At the double snare beat I walked on and began to sing. As soon as I started to play the synth I realised it wasn't tuned the same as when I had made the backing tape (in fact as each song went on I found that it had been tuned differently from the previous one). The whole concert was taped from the mixing desk and also from a pair of mics hanging from the roof. I still have a copy of the tape (now transformed into mp3 format) and you can hear me frantically trying to retune my synth during a few of the songs. In the end I ended up programming in a hand clap type sound and just playing along to the tape using that. For those recording enthusiasts amongst us, the recording from the mikes came out much better than the one from the mixing desk as it had more audience noise and atmosphere about it.

The shergold never got used on stage again and I ended up signing up to do A level computer science at Harrogate College and a pre requesit was to own a computer. I didn't have one so I put my beloved bettered Shergold up for sale in the local paper. The first person that came to look at it (who, I remeber had long hair) said he was interested, but couldn't afford it until he had sold his sinclair spectrum. The outcome was obvious - we did a straight swap. I went and did my course, carried on playing synth, and that was that.

Until yesterday. Al sent me an email saying he wanted to buy an electric guitar and did I have any suggestions. I replied saying he should buy a Shergold and promptly did a search on google to see if I could find out if they still made them.
I found this site and discovered that they are no longer made.
I suddenly began to miss my guitar and I want it back.....

So, if you have long hair and you swapped a sinclair spectrum for a shergold sometime in the 1980s in Harrogate please can I buy it back from you? I'll swap it for a spectrum if you like.

Altenatively, if you have a Shergold Meteor in natural finish, can I buy yours?