last night was a bad night

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:58 pm

about a year ago i decorated my friends house for him. he's disabled so cant do it for himself, i agreed to do it for nothing
and after i finished he gave me a really gorgeous tanglewood parlour guitar,solid top back and sides,fucking loved it to bits
played a show in cheltenham last night and it was stolen
i really dont know what to do about it
iv contacted the police.any body got any advise

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:03 pm

go around to the local pawn shops. give a description of it to local music stores. keep an eye on craigslist.

SoylentGreenIsPeople · Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:41 pm

Pawn shops are awful. A huge part of their business is addicts pawning and selling shit they've stolen. It's too easy to get and keep a pawnbroker license, at least where I live.

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:47 pm

Check every eBay, Gumtree.com and any other site like that daily.

Also, I agree with the pawnshop comment above.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:14 pm

PM me the deets...

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:19 pm

I'd definitely file a police report as well but this goes without saying. If it was stolen from the pub maybe their insurance would cover you?

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:59 pm

yeah, a pub i been going to for years!
the police were supprisingly cool
they gave me an incident number
and told me to claim on my house insurace using the incident number
its really the fact it was given to me which is pissing me off
its a single cut travel size guitar
by tanglewood in a cool little cream colour case
the neck on its awsome

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:21 pm

benecol wrote:PM me the deets...

Me also. I live in Gloucester and check the two local pawn shops often. Link me to a picture of it or similar so I know what to keep an eye out for.

Out of curiosity which pub was it?

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:41 pm

check out any cash convertors as well.

Shame, really shame. If you have any pics post on here and I could take a look here in Bristol as well

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:49 pm

this is terrible.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:49 am

I've always liked the fact that if my gear was stolen and ended up on ebay, shortscale would pretty much have it tied up in terms of being able to identify what's there and looking often enough to catch it.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:35 am

There's a special place in hell for people who steal guitars

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:06 pm

it was at the fiery angel on all saints road they have an open mic down there on a friday
went down there after band rehursal
i got a message on facebook from a friend telling me that a guy has my guitar
and was wondering why he had it
its pretty unique so im gunna go down the cop shop.
i just signed up to the uploader thing so ill post a pic when it gets back to me
thanks for all your responses
i really appreciate it

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:14 pm

http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/197/031.JPG
does this work?
im shit with computors

James · Post by **James** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:39 pm

It sounds like you're onto it if a friend knows of a guy who has it. It's good you've already filed a report and have an incident number, they aren't going to put more officers on the case or start working in shifts to solve it but if you have a good lead and someone to back your story up (the friend - I'd take the friend with you or bevery sure of the details your friend knows when you go if you go yourself) then I imagine they'll at least check it out.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:53 pm

I got the impression from his post he'd got it back - Matt please confirm. We're worried.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:00 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:I've always liked the fact that if my gear was stolen and ended up on ebay, shortscale would pretty much have it tied up in terms of being able to identify what's there and looking often enough to catch it.

same here actually, i think my gigging guitars are distinctive enough to be noticed if some thieving cunt ebayed them.

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:22 pm

im pretty sure i know who has it
im gunna find a way of marking all my guitars before we tour this summer
iv set up three guitars for free for the lad who has got it
the bass player of the band i used to play in conformed this dick head has it
me and my friend are gunna go round his house later
thanks for all your support and concern

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:38 pm

matt.dines wrote:im pretty sure i know who has it
im gunna find a way of marking all my guitars before we tour this summer
iv set up three guitars for free for the lad who has got it
the bass player of the band i used to play in conformed this dick head has it
me and my friend are gunna go round his house later
thanks for all your support and concern

Okay, maybe it's my age talkin' here but you don't really know what went down. He could have bought it off someone, anything could have happened.

Take the old bill with you. Let them sort it. Only thing you should care about is getting your guitar back, full stop.

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:52 pm

yeah
i doubt wether this guy bought it
im gunna ask tony if he's got the receipt i really wanna get my guitar back asap
so if i just went round there and got it back it would sort the whole thing
anybody know the process the police would use for this knda thing?