I Never Thought I'd See My Stolen Guitars Again | Trogly's Unboxing Vlog #53

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"The guy actually came through, so I do have a good judge of character" Dude.. he sold at least one of your guitars, destroyed and returned a few, and half of them are still unaccounted for.... How is that coming through?

medical problems or not, that dude is a criminal.

The whole time I'm watching this, I'm thinking of my best friend and his Gibson EB3L bass. At a gig, Michael had broken the neck over some guy's head who was trying to dance with his girlfriend. A guitar shop in Raleigh had sent the guitar off to Gibson to be repaired. (He had them make it fretless while they were at it.) When it came back, Michael didn't have enough money to pay for it, so he left it at the shop while he got his money straight. This took a few months, and by the time Michael had the cash, the guitar shop went out of business, and the owner vanished. For over 5 years, Michael had no idea where his guitar was. Until I moved to Raleigh. I did quite a bit of detective work, and tracked down the guitar shop owner. I found out he was laying low to avoid the IRS. Michael and I showed up at his door one Saturday morning, and when he opened it, Michael said, "Where's my guitar?" The guy was somewhat taken aback, but quickly recovered and said, "The bass! I have it." It turns out that when the sheriff padlocked the shop, the owner broke into the shop and "stole" the guitars that belonged to other people so they wouldn't be sold at a county auction. He had them all in storage. We met the owner later that day, paid him what was owed, and Michael had his prized bass back. Years later, after Michael's funeral, we all went back to his house. As soon as we walked in the door, his widow went into the back room and rummaged around for a bit. When she came back out, she handed me that guitar, and said, "I was told to make sure I gave this to you." It's the most precious thing I own.

"I don't want anybody else to be hurt in this whole situation." Then you have an obligation to prosecute the offenders so they can't screw anyone else the way they screwed you.

“I do have a good judge of character” .... as we say in the South, bless your heart

Love your content. But you do not have a good judge of character. No pickups, serial numbers scratched off, some have been sold or are still missing. He completely ripped you off. I don't understand why you don't take legal action... He stole all the valuable hardware and destroyed most of these. Seriously sue this man.

Really love how positive this dude is. If I ever die you're invited to my funeral. You're like the Ned Flanders of guitar enthusiasts...

Seeing these guitars in this state makes me physically ill, especially since you never got the Flying V back. Health problems or not, the dude did you wrong. He should have said straight up, "hey, man, I'm not doing well, is there any chance I can send these back to you?". I'd maybe call The Guitologist, I know he restores guitars, may make for a cool crossover series between your two YouTube channels.

Man that "luthier" did some really questionable work on some of those...

He seems to know a lot more about guitars than he does people.

Dude this man sold your most valuable guitar, and hasn't finished a single project in three years, and you still haven't gotten half of the guitars you sent to him... you got got

It’s funny when he sees these and says “this isn’t to bad” and it’s sanded all to shit and ruined, but get one with barely a ding on the bottom of it you can barely see and he says “ohh I’ll have to email him and get some money back on this one “ 😅

"I Never Thought I'd See This Guitar Again"… in 1983, I had a guitar stolen out of a broken-down band bus (yeah, I know, what are the odds?) that I reported to the county sheriff. Two YEARS later, I get a call from the country sheriff's office, saying, " We think we've found your guitar…" which I had totally written off. Long story short, I drove out there, recovered my stolen guitar, and thanked them profusely. Epilogue: I traded that guitar for some other guitar. That stolen guitar was a 1965 Duo-Sonic. Go ahead and kick my ass, since I've already done it mentally a thousand times.

Shout out to DWAYNE from Gibson custom shop. True hero 🤘

“Good judge of character” !!!! I guarantee you only got your guitars back because you called him out and he doesn’t want to go to jail.

Totally confused. So what exactly happened? 1) "The guy actually came through, so I do have a good judge of character" 2) "I got my stolen guitars back" Both can't be true. More details!

That luthier can’t be above board if your Flying V ended up for sale. Surprised you let the new owner sell it, you could have recovered that one and given him some cash if it made you feel better. I’d be worried about the remaining guitars the luthier has.

If you’re not on drugs, you should be.

Stop letting this guy walk over you man, everybody down here is concerned for your wallet and guitars. He scammed you out of 13 guitars and destroyed most of them, nevermind the ones he sold, he’s not a ‘friend’ or ‘business pal’. Go take legel action, this guy shouldn’t be allowed to capitalize on forgiving and nice people like you. It’s up to you now, if you don’t take legal action there’s a chance you wont ever see your other guitars again. Even worse than that, other people like you could also be a future victim of this guy. C’mon man, I’m telling you now, you’re gonna regret NOT doing it later on.