Shergold Marathon question

[Spike Vincent]

Having decided to restore the Marathon I've had sitting in it's case for over a decade,can any owners advise me on what the stereo outputs are actually supposed to do? Just 2 outputs or do they split the pickup ?

[RhysP]

From the Shergold website:

"The pickup is in effect two mini-humbuckers in the same casing. The stereo effect is derived by putting the pickup coils under the first and second strings on one channel and the third and fourth the other half of the pickup.
The main drawback with this arrangement is that in mono mode, the two halves of the pickup are connected in parallel, giving very low output.
Common owner alterations to the electronics are to add a toggle switch to flip between parallel and series connection of the windings, and a second switch to bypass the tone and volume network".

Hope that helps.

[Paul S]

Unsurprisingly there is a Shergold Discussion forum that has amongst it's members some exceptionally clever folks, including an old boy who used to make them and a chap who has recently made (from scratch - cast metal things and wound his own pickups) a bass/12 string/6 string interchangeable double neck Shergold replica! They would be able to help you with any issues that arose.

[url="http://www.shergold.co.uk/forum/"]Forum here[/url]

[Spike Vincent]

Nice one,muchly thanks both.Wondered why it was such a quiet bass.

Edited December 30, 2010 by Spike Vincent