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That fake loading screen is a perfect example - they've not really understood what it's for at all. It's supposed to be there while AJAX content loads, but they reload the page in its entirety (which is actually slower) and show it anyway, presumably because they don't know how to do AJAX content.
EDIT: I presume that they're showing the loading page because they want all the images to preload behind it so that you don't see the page building. The thing is, if you design your page and Javascript sensibly, everything will load in the correct order anyway and you don't see any on-the-fly rejigging at all.
As for the guitars...what the hell is up with those fret markers? On a stage with lights, they serve no useful purpose at all because they run parallel to the strings and at a quick glance will be indistinguishable from the light reflecting off the strings.
About the only thing they've really done right is getting Bea to demonstrate them.
I had a chance to play a proper Shergold a few years ago. They do look a bit fugly and this particular one was a bit grimey with old strings, but despite this it did play/feel pretty good and had a bit of a fat/thick yet brightish sound to it, I liked it...
I don't like it because its made out of fancy wood and can sound like any other guitar you can buy. The idea of a shergold with a solid rosewood neck (good luck with the new laws) seems to miss the point of them for me. Both the guitars above where built with cheap woods, cleverly different construction methods... and a lot of though went into the pickups and controls.
I like my old one because its different,plays well and gives loads of options you won't find on any other guitar. It can be a bit fender ish or gibson ish - but its always totally shergold.
Like the John Birch behind it, i like that all the hardware (except tuners) is specific to the guitar and won't be found anywhere else. Okay, this limits the upgrade market, but it gives a truly individual instrument from the factory. every new guitar these days relies on the same hardware you find on everything else. Gordon Smith seem to be the last british builder with their own hardware and even that seems like it may be faded out or saved for the higher end models.
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Im sure these new instruments are fine guitars if Mr Eggle is deeply involved in their design but to use the Shergold name just seems disingenuous somehow.
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Good luck taking it out the country now.
Forsythes also stock large numbers of Rickenbackers (which are phenomenally expensive btw). Same thing - quirky - loads of personality.
This is what I expect from Shergold. I had the pleasure of being shown round the original factory (which was far more a large 'workshop' really) by Jack Golder in the late 70s. He was fiercely proud of how they made 'the best necks in the world' - the place reeked of a genuine passion for what they did.
Its a shame that the brand has been resurrected in this way - they were (for a time) the nearest we had to a mass-produced, British made and designed guitar.
I don't think these are really aimed at the type of player who would go for an original shergold. Whilst i like mine i am sure some of the quirks would be too much for many modern players.
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I'm not sure about mahogany plus bolt-on rosewood, but I guess Patrick Eggle knows what he's doing.
But they're not Shergolds! I agree with @WezV's earlier comment they'd they'd probably do better branded as Eggles.
I've wanted one for ages and we are gonna fall out if you don't stop!!!
I never liked old Shergolds - lumpy bodies and styling, strange necks, odd-sounding pickups and clunky controls. So on the one hand these are good because they're nothing like that, but on the other… meh. Nothing interesting about them at all. Just another generic modern guitar with generic hardware and sound but a different shape.
Even the headstock is the same - not as ugly as the original, but bland and nowhere near distinctive enough, it reminds me of a Greg Bennett or something.
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Surely the modern players who would find the original's quirks too much would never have heard of Shergold in the first place, while those who know the brand will be disappointed by the lack of quirkiness.
We see it time and again with resurrections of names like Burns, Vox and others, whack in a couple of styling cues and some cheap ceramic Strat pickups and see how fast we can go bankrupt.
Despite my personal dislike for Shergold, Peavey and other "reggae only" guitars from the 70s they have a loyal following, I don't know why they seem so keen to alienate them.