How many of you have gotten a guitar stolen/ruined

[tyrant21]

well, in light of deathmetalpsycho's thread about his guitar gone missing and coming back, I started a thread about getting guitars stolen/ruined.

I have had one stolen, sort of. I was having a "custom" guitar done by hex custom instruments, a supposed online site. The deal was I send in my js100 and 200 bucks and I get this wicked looking v. So I send everything thing, thinking the guitar should arrive soon since it was basically done when i sent my stuff in. Time goes by and I continue talking with this Tommie Hex fellow, about the guitar and guitars in general. He reassures me the guitar is almost done. Long story short, the whole thing is a scam, one of my friends also had a guitar in the making and he never received it. This guy ripped of tons of kids, and even the guitarist from Nile. He apparently had wood mock ups of "guitars in progress" and other pictures stolen from various websites. Authorities have been unable to find him, and no has no one towards the end has gotten a refund or a guitar. This all happened awhile ago, bout a year and a half when I found out it was a scam.

[pjg]

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I have had three stolen, all at the same time. I knew who did it but had no way of proving it to the cops and no way of finding him myself.

[busdriver]

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I can tell a "ruined"-story:

More than a year ago, after a gig, when we packed our stuff together some idiot drove with his car over the guitar case with my PC-1 inside. The neck broke into thousands of pieces, impossible to repair [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] Of course he escaped unrecognized.

Since then I tried to buy a replacement neck from Jackson, but it's hopeless, since Jackson doesn't want to sell a single neck [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] They wanted me to proove in advance that this neck will be attached to the remaining body, but I can't proof it, because they don't accept pictures of the remaining body and hardware [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

There was a PC-1 neck several times in the classifieds, but it never worked out for me to get it.

End of the story: The week before christmas I sold the remaining guitar to a friend and he got a nice replacement neck build by a local luthier.

[j2379]

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i had a 78 koa mockingbird supreme ruined by someone who tried to refin it. made all of the nice hard lined bevels rounded. im still pissed off as its an incredibly hard guitar to find.

[tyrant21]

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here's a devastating story of my own stupidity. I had this takamine acoustic when I was a senior in high school. I got home with it from a friends house and set it where I always set my guitars, up on the counter. built into this counter was an electronic stove thing that we never use, I didnt even know how to turn it on and had only seen it used once. Anyways, my guitars usually lay across it, but you can guess where this story is heading. So after setting my guitar in the case and laying it across there, I take off with some friends to a party, after a great, drunken night, we return home. First thing we all notice is a horrible smell, like paint fumes or something. Walking further into the house I see what happened, the oven somehow got turned on, and there was a huge hole in the side of my guitar case where everything, plastic, rubber, whatever, melted away. Opening up the case I could see the guitar was done, the body shape was completely warped and the paint melted from it. Fortunately, I actually hated the guitar, so it wasn't to devastating a loss.

[TheSteveMan]

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I had an Epiphone Mo'Baby (don't laugh, it was my first axe)
Paid 110 bucks for it, only to replace it with another (shitty) guitar, an Ibanez GRX20 like four months later.
Like a year later, I got my first REAL guitar (Jackson DR-3) so I just left the Mo'Baby in the music room at school so I could play around with it at lunch time sometimes without having to bring my good axe to school.
Music teacher got sick of people picking it up and screwing with it so he finally said "Take it home, Stevo" but I didn't really want it taking up space at my house, so I let a buddy borrow it.
He and another buddy "got a little rowdy one day" with a snow shovel, some rubber cement, and fire.
It was a piece of shit anyway, I didn't care much... but the least they coulda done was get it on video, or let me come over and help beat the crap out of it?

The Ibanez GRX (which I also don't really miss).. I lent it out to this creepy girl (a couple classes below me.. she was a freshy when I was a junior) at school who wanted me to give her guitar lessons and even went as following me after school to see where I lived (which didn't help me much, grr) and generally kind of stalked me for a while.
I finally said "here, borrow this guitar, I don't really use it.. here's some stuff to practice, now get outta my sight"
And I never saw the guitar again. Never felt like asking for it back at any time, and the next year she didn't go to the same school, which somehow didn't bother me.
I would never treat any of my REAL axes like that, though, so don't worry.
All of the axes I have now (some of 'em cheapies-but-goodies) are my babies and I love them!

[Zerberus]

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SO far´I´ve gotten lucky. I used to loan my axes out to friends in need. But after not seeing my holy grail for 12 months (was supposed to be a week) and having to threaten him w/ serious bodily injury I got her back.

Ever since then, my guitars are either in my apartment or accompanied by yours truly [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

But I´m sorry to hear about the deal with Hex. A lot of people got burned, incluiding guys like Karl Sanders (of Nile), there are LOOOONG threads on the Moser and Broken Hope forums dealing with this.....

[neilli]

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I lent my already stripped Model 2 to a 'friend' and his damn dog chewed the end of the headstock, the edge of the body and the switch and knobs (I had a neck k/b installed): How I laughed.......

[RacerX]

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I've been through the "Hey let me borrow that" and then they leave town thing....with my first brand new electric....a Guild Burnside Lance (Rhoads copy).

[surfdork]

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Many years ago, I had a sweet Dean silverburst V. Like a dumbass, I put it up on consignment at some local place. A few weeks go by, and I check on the status.

Old Guy who works there: " Oh yeah.....oooooh. Some bad news. We had a break in, and a bunch of stuff was stolen...including that guitar."

Me: "OK, so where's my cash?"

Old Guy again: " Yeah...we're working with the insurance company."

Well, a few weeks go by...runaround...a few more weeks...more runaround...finally I have my insurance company step in. You'll be shocked to learn the store was not insured...no $$ for me. Luckily, my insurance company was cool, and it was covered by my homeowners policy.

The worse part is, when I went by to see if anyone was nibblin' on it, I was planning on taking it back home with me.

[Jonzkij]

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I bought a sweet Charvel 750 XL (internet ad), and the seller was supposed to ship it to me by bus.
I did the payment, and the days went by but no guitar for me.
I then tried to contact the seller, but he was nowhere to be found.
After a while it was confirmed that he actually sent it to me, but obviously a busdriver left the guitar at a busstop outside a big station, and then it disappeared... [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
After giving the buscompany hell over the phone X couple of times, i got compensated by their insurance company.
I`m still on the lookout for it...

//Jonzkij

[Jim Shine]

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I have a ruined story. During high school I knew a guy with a Telecaster reissue that I always loved. It played and felt great. Years later he sends it off for a setup at a local music store (now out of business). The guy at the store broke the truss rod in the neck. This guitar was almost mint.

So I buy the guitar and get another real Fender neck for it. When I opened the guitar up to do the change, I found Custom Shop stamps in the wood. It was a first year Custom Shop guitar. When I investigated it they determined it must have been an endorsed artist guitar, which is the only reason it would be lacking CS logos on the outside. At the time of build there were only a handfull of endorsed Fender artists as the then new FMIC was just getting things going.

So, I played this awesome Tele for a few years. It was the lightest and best sounding one ever. A local amp guy drove me nuts trying to buy it from me. I finally broke down and sold him the guitar. I saw this guitar 2 years ago at the store he works at almost totally destroyed. He tried to 'relic' the thing with what looks like a belt sander, huge chunck of wood missing from the edges, a Hipshot bender permanently installed to the guitar with wood screws and an extra string tree. I almost puked when I saw it.

[noodlesatf]

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I had my refinished Model 5 at gig, in its chainsaw case, standing up against the wall with a whole bunch of other guitars and basses. Some knuckle dragging ape walked by on his way to empty more piss water Budweiser into the toilet, and bumped into the case. I got to watch it from across the room go timber in slow motion on it's way to the ground. I opened the case, and the headstock was snapped, right underneath the trussrod cover, at some weird angle. I've never found anyone able to do anything with it, and it still hurts to this day. I've got four coats of black, four coats of black w/ silver glitter, four coats of clear with silver glitter, and four coats of clear on that thing. The guitar looked amazing on a stage, and I still miss the hell out of it.

[tyrant21]

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I have a ruined story. During high school I knew a guy with a Telecaster reissue that I always loved. It played and felt great. Years later he sends it off for a setup at a local music store (now out of business). The guy at the store broke the truss rod in the neck. This guitar was almost mint.

So I buy the guitar and get another real Fender neck for it. When I opened the guitar up to do the change, I found Custom Shop stamps in the wood. It was a first year Custom Shop guitar. When I investigated it they determined it must have been an endorsed artist guitar, which is the only reason it would be lacking CS logos on the outside. At the time of build there were only a handfull of endorsed Fender artists as the then new FMIC was just getting things going.

So, I played this awesome Tele for a few years. It was the lightest and best sounding one ever. A local amp guy drove me nuts trying to buy it from me. I finally broke down and sold him the guitar. I saw this guitar 2 years ago at the store he works at almost totally destroyed. He tried to 'relic' the thing with what looks like a belt sander, huge chunck of wood missing from the edges, a Hipshot bender permanently installed to the guitar with wood screws and an extra string tree. I almost puked when I saw it.

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That sounds appalling, even though you sold it, no one wants to see one of their babies like that.

[paddok]

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Luckily, the worst thing I've ever had happen to me was of my own doing, and insignificant in the long run. It was late one saturday night, after hours of playing my soloist, I decided to take a break. I put the guitar down on top of it's case (and foolishly not inside) and step away to the kitchen. I return with a renewed glass of vodka and stumble a bit while getting back into playing possition.

*plop* needless to say I spilled a bit right onto the soloist. Oh how quickly did I run to find a tshirt to wipe up my mess. The guitar is far from ruined, but it's probably the worst thing to have ever happened to one of my axe's. I'm hyper-paranoid with them.