Made in UK mystery guitar - any ideas what this is?

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This asymmetrically-shaped through-neck guitar is currently being auctioned on eBay with a starting price of £289. It features a DiMarzio humbucker and a Schaller bridge, with a possible non-original single-coil pickup in the neck position. The seller does not know much about it, only that it was made in the UK (which we can't take as 100% truth without any evidence to support it).

Does anyone have any clue as to the guitar's identity? The shape reminds me slightly of that of Scotland's own Egypt Guitars, but the bat logo on the headstock would suggest otherwise. Any ideas?

G L Wilson

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Hayman thinline 2020

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This is not the first time you can see here one of these cool and rare made-in-UK Hayman thinline 2020, but this one has single coil pickups and the characteristic plate between them (the headstock glass logo is missing, that leaves a hole...).

I find the shape really 2010s, you know this mix of retro and classy minimalism good designers reach when they really love guitars...

Bertram

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70s Shergold Modulator 3

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This is a Shergold Modulator 3 - that I first noticed because of its square knob plate, the kind of things that I love in a guitar (the general shape is not so exciting)!

Then I deepened a little bit the subject and I discovered that the square knob plate actually allows to interchange the electronics of the Modulator series - there are 6 versions -, and that Shergold was a kind of spin-off of Burns - actually a company that provided woodwork to Burns and Hayman and other British brands before making their own guitars in 1975, first from left over material.

Shergold's guitars and basses have been used by Joy Division / New Order musicians, and Genesis's Mike Rutherford played a famous double neck 4/12 custom guitar that could be reassembled in different combinations of basses and guitars... - I'll come back on Shergold double-necks in a following post.

bertram

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