Tracking my old casino

[lengle1981]

So here's the story. I bought a cherry red casino about 9 or 10 years ago. In the end I stripped it completely and then stained it. I'd never done work like that on a guitar and never have since, so it had a bit of special place in my collection. A couple of years after I found myself in a bad place, I won't bore u with the details but my collection was sold. The casino was sold on eBay here in the UK.

 

So, I'd love to track it down and get it back but dunno how I'd do it. My eBay account went unused and I now use a different one so checking my account history is a no no. I thought posting on here would be an idea for starters.

 

So that's my dilemma, has anyone ever tracked down an old guitar and been reunited with an old axe? Any stories?

[charlie brown]

I once tried to find my original '65 Gretsch Country Gent, that I sold a long time

ago. Tried every guitar site, I could think of, and put ads, in various other

places. There was not even one response!

 

So, I hope you'll have much better luck, with you inquiries.

 

CB

[mirrorboy]

I had a Kasuga Barney Kessel copy that was new in 1972. It was a sample that was sent to John Hornby Skewes but they never distributed it. That guitar model was eventually marketed with the Shaftesbury brand name. I bought it from a luthier who did repair work for JHS and was told it was a one-off in England.

 

A few years ago someone in the UK posted a picture and enquired about that very same guitar on the Vintaxe guitar collectors' site. I wrote to them and I never heard anything back from them.

 

Good luck, I hope something turns up. Stranger things have happened.