Note that Paul makes no mention of several of the Hayman models introduced in 1975 just before Dallas folded - White Cloud, Comet and Modular - the last two of which would provide the starting point for two Shergold models: Meteor and Modulator.
While describing the guitar pictured as the 'original Modulator' it is clearly the hybrid Cavalier body and neck with a Modulator module and scratch plate that is seem in one other review and a Shergold trade advert.
The Sounds Book of the Electric Guitar, Tony Mitchell, 1980
The article that started this website - a few months later I would find my first Shergold in a dusty corner of a music shop, have a vague recollection of the name, go home and dig through my magazines, read this, and then a week later that first Modulator was mine. It would be fourteen years more for the Masquerader pictured to join it.
The Guitar Magazine, September 1993, written by Paul Day
The twelve string is still in use at Real World studios, and the headstock was recently seen over Peter's shoulder in the BBC programme about the making of 'So'.
The picture is a twelve string, Cavalier / Modulator pre-production hybrid. This guitar also appears in other reviews as the 'Modulator 2'. By the time production started the Cavalier had been changed to a standard fixed control plate.
The guitar pictured was Paul Day's and is now in the <a href="collection.html">Collection</a> - it is also incorrectly dated as a 1981 production, when it is in fact from 1983.
Clockwise from Top Left: An early Rosetti twin cutaway rebadge; Transitional Custom Masquerader; Customised or custom ordered - Meteor body, Custom Double control plate, Masquerader bridge and neck; Custom Double 6/4 with Bigsby fitted.
From Paul Day Archive, original attributions unknown
Dated to 1982 as Mike is wearing the same "Sumo" top on the cover of his "Acting Very Strange" solo album. The top half of this configuration is now in the website collection.
Unknown photographer, picture from Shergold Guitars website archive.
While titled as the 'Mark 2' what is pictured is clearly a standard longhorn Marathon but possibly with an ash body instead of obeche. Some of the critical points about the controls are also inconsistent with a real Mark 2.