Guitars Stolen From Jimi's

darrenw5094

http://www.facebook.com/jimismusicstore/posts/423323021025499

A clatter of of high priced guitars taken recently. Repost on your Facebook's.

Stolen last night.
Serial numbers to follow
Gibson ES335 Black 2001
Gibson ES339 Light Caramel Burst (New)
Gibson Les Paul Standard Gold Top(New)
Gibson Les Paul Custom 1993 Cherry Sunburst
Gibson Les Paul Studio 60’s Tribute Gold Top 2011
Gibson Les Paul Traditional Desert Burst(New)
Gibson Les Paul Studio Ebony 2003
Gibson SG Standard Cherry (New)
Gibson SG Standard Ebony (New)
Gibson 61 SG Cherry (New)
Gibson SG Special Worn Cherry (New)

Epiphone Les Paul 2010 Tribute Cherry Sunburst
Fender 1978 Telecaster Antigua

Fender American Standard Strat Candy Apple Red RW 2005
Fender American Standard Strat Factory Special 2009 Surf Green RW
Fender American Special Strat Sunburst MN (New)
Fender American Standard Strat Sunburst MN (New)
Fender American Standard Strat Sunburst RW (New)
Fender American Standard Strat Black MN (New)
Fender American Standard Strat Candy Cola Red MN (New)
Fender American Standard Strat Olympic White MN (New)
Fender American Standard Strat Sunburst RW 2010
Fender American Deluxe Strat Sunburst RW (New)

Epiphone Les Paul 2010 Tribute Cherry Sunburst (New)
Fender Standard Strat Lake Placid Blue (New)
Fender Blacktop Strat RW (New)
Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster RW (New)
Fender Standard Telecaster Lake Placid Blue MN (New)
Epiphone Les Paul ’56 Gold Top
Tokai Flying V
Gibson Melody Maker Sunburst

Fender Precision Bass Natural RW 1978
Fender American Strat International Morroco Red 1978
Fender American Strat Natural RW 1974
Fender American Strat Black with Black pickguard MN 1979
Fender American Strat ’62 Re-issue Sherwood Green RW
Fender Lonestar Strat Pearl RW 1997
Fender American Deluxe Strat Black MN 2001
Fender VG Strat Black
Fender Mark Knopfler Strat Hot Red RW

Orange SP210 Isobaric 2x10 Cab (New)
Marshall MG101CFX (New)
Marshall MG102CFX (New)
Fender Rumble 30 (New)
Orange Rocker 30 Used
Fender Satellite Extension Cab
Marshall Superbass

slavetothegrind

sickening, gutted for the man.

:mad:

kevin65

There are thieving b*stards everywhere nowadays. All sorts of businesses are being targetted. Hope they find them.

Connavar

holy moly, i hope he had them insured

Squidgy Black

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

Ravelleman

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

Sounds pretty libellous, pal. If there is any insurance involved, as I´m sure there is, I imagine all the appropriate steps will be taken by all sides to investigate.

I´d be quite interested to see where the thieves eventually try to sell. The guitars will amost certainly be leaving the country if they ever manage to sell them as Ireland is a pretty small place, with only one or two options for selling things like that.

kunst nugget

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

Well the shop seems to have lost an awful lot of very expensive guitars - obviously very clued in and strong thieves…

There was another thread in music production where some place gave a laughably long list of all the equipment that had been stolen. The thieves would have needed an artic with a spare hour or three of no one looking at them to take eveything with them.

Ravelleman

Also, the thieves took two Marshall MG amps - joke´s on them!

That´s worse than any prison sentence.

ball ox

I'd imagine they were on their way out of the country within hours of being stolen. Otherwise they will never get past customs and there's not a hope in hell they would be able to sell them in Ireland. Hopefully his insurance should cover everything though and the shop will be ok.

LpPepper

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

Chains were attached to the door frame and they used a car to rip the whole frame out , very violent if you ask me.. and I know Jimmy , he is doing very well for himself , trust me. Jimmy is NOT the guy to pull a stunt like insurance fraud anyway.. he's the most down to earth guy you'll meet , best guitar shop in Ireland if ya ask me!

slavetothegrind

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

sad state of affairs when the first thing that occurs to you is that:(

in fairness if you put jimis guitars on the side of a transit and silence the alarms who is going to say boo to you emptying the place? not all thieves are idiots unfortunately.

I hope the fcukers die a slow cancerous death.

Squidgy Black

LpPepper wrote: »

Chains were attached to the door frame and they used a car to rip the whole frame out , very violent if you ask me.. and I know Jimmy , he is doing very well for himself , trust me. Jimmy is NOT the guy to pull a stunt like insurance fraud anyway.. he's the most down to earth guy you'll meet , best guitar shop in Ireland if ya ask me!

See I didn't know this was what happened. The main reason I jumped to that conclusion is that with the whole recession, a lot of business are closing down, and insurance claims is something that's becoming more common before a business shuts down to pay it's debts. I wish the best of luck to Jimmy and hope he gets his stock back, the last thing we need is more Irish business's closing.

kevin65

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

There are gangs travelling round the country breaking into and cleaning out businesses of their contents and shipping them out of the country, so this could well be the case here, given the amount of stock that was taken. I think your comments would be quite offensive to Jimmy.

zafo

kevin65 wrote: »

There are gangs travelling round the country breaking into and cleaning out businesses of their contents and shipping them out of the country, so this could well be the case here, given the amount of stock that was taken. I think your comments would be quite offensive to Jimmy.

Yeah offensive and uncalled for, guy doing his best to run a decent shop in said recession and people start accusing him of insurance fraud. Makes me sad.

Squidgy Black

zafo wrote: »

Yeah offensive and uncalled for, guy doing his best to run a decent shop in said recession and people start accusing him of insurance fraud. Makes me sad.

As I said before, I didn't know any background to the shop or the robbery, I wasn't accusing him of anything, I was simply stating it was such a large list of high value stock that things like insurance fraud is common. I didn't mean to make any offensive comments towards the owner's as I've never visited the shop nor talked to the owner.

dfkorg

Can mods please stop silly speculation and comments pertaining to that

Ravelleman

Fires would be a lot more suspicious but this just seems to be case of serious misfortune for an honest business owner, especially in these troubled times.

One might also speculate that the guitars, or the money earned from them, will be heading towards somewhere in eastern Europe or perhaps the Balkans since this seems like some serious business. I get the impression that Irish gangs only go for drugs and murders/Republican activities (and I say Republican in the loosest sense of the word possible). Someone here might correct me though.

gotBass

I rarely post,
jimis is a great place, and jim is a very decent guy altogether.
its terrible news, I only hope that it doesnt, put him under. Really sorry to hear that.

Glassheart

I presume these guitars were the ones on the shop floor.
Does anybody know if they grabbed the hard cases too? What about the pedals?

LpPepper

Glassheart wrote: »

I presume these guitars were the ones on the shop floor.
Does anybody know if they grabbed the hard cases too? What about the pedals?

Nope all the cases were left and no pedals taken.

stetyrrell

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody

This was no insurance job. I was In and out of that shop today having a mod done on one of my guitars which I'd arranged in advance. The place had clearly been turned over professionally and the guys were visibly gutted at the intrusion, damage, and loss of stock, and the careless and violent manner in which it had been done. Dave had been there since the middle of the night dealing with it, was wrecked, and STILL took in my guitar and worked on it for 90 minutes (and did a bang up job by the way!) while I waited there watching tradesmen and insurance assessors coming and going sorting out the damage.

I was genuinely gutted for the staff, and will make every effort to support their shop whenever I can, as under the circumstances they bent over backwards to help me out today. I'm sure you've already received enough flack for your poorly judged post, so I won't add any more, except to suggest that you refrain from making hurtful/defamatory speculations in future until you have all the facts.

population

Actually I think it is high time we posted the type of post that the guys in Jimi's would actually want to hear. Namely, I am really sorry to hear about this and I will keep a vigilant eye out for any of these guitars that may cross my path. Should I see anything suspicious I will contact the store immediately.

Gaspode

Desperately bad news for the guy, hard enough doing business in this country.

darrenw5094

Don't forget to share this on your Facebook pages.

Pics of stolen gear now available.
http://catalog.jimismusicstore.ie/index.php?cPath=54

unclebill98

Shocked. That's a lot of gear. Sorry to her. Same was done in a shop in Navan a while back. Defo robbed by people in the know on how to shift them. Shared on my FB.

Keyzer

stetyrrell wrote: »

No offense to Jimmy, I'm sure he's a lovely guy and runs a great business, but does this not stink of an insurance fraud job to anybody? very little detail about how the break-in occurred and a hell of a lot of stock taken.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything or saying he has done it btw, just the first thought that came to my mind.

Shame on you...

The guy has had his livelihood attacked and you immediately assume he's on the take...

His shop is savage and Jimi is a sound guy.

Dord

I've only been out there once but I have to say it was a positive experience. I'm very sad to hear about this. Nobody likes losing guitars or equipment... especially not from their small business. In this day and age (in fact any time) I have the utmost respect for small businesses. They need all the support they can get... and more.

I hope that they get the equipment back soon.

feylya

Simple rule of the internet folks - if you don't want a troll to get the attention, don't reply to the troll. (Not calling anyone a troll per se but you get the meaning)

This is pretty crap for Jimi regardless. Must have been a professional operation to clear out that many guitars!

wild turkey

That's just awful !
I love going in there & always come out gassing for something
You have to hand it to the likes of jimi's & Some Neck for taking the risk of setting up such businesses in these times, its a big risk for these guys & for some Pr1ck to come & do such a thing must be devastating!
Next time I'm out that way, I'll make it my business to go in & buy something out of respect to the man for what he's doing.

Cougar_1

Seen link to pics here http://bit.ly/MbLmjR I think it just links back to Jimis site.

JonathanAnon

On Liveline now..

darrenw5094

Anyone hear any updates?