Jesus you are a super nice guy!! I would be telling the "Luthier" you WILL be meeting the guy from your state to give him my guitars.People are lucky there are people like you because he would be having more health problems over that kind of money.I'm no tuff guy but that's alot of money.Love your show.

What do you mean hopeful? Give him a deadline to return your property and if he doesn’t then file and show up with police and take them home yourself.

I’ve been too blue to check it out, but I guess I’ll pore over your site (after I find it) and see whether you offer a service to keep an eye open for other people’s stolen guitars? The problem being I haven’t found a single photo of my boosted SG, and it was stolen over a decade ago… if it hasn’t been re-fitted by now to look like it’d never been modified in the first place, if the pickup covers haven’t been replaced and so on, I’d be shocked. I guess it’d also be awesome if someone could help me ID, from a written description, what year my stolen SG may’ve been from… and maybe even help me find an affordable player-grade replacement? You seem so busy, though: probably KZfaq alone is a full-time gig. 😕

Need an update 2020 on the slash snake pit guitar..We need some closure.

@Satanic Panic Fun and Games Yes, they would be sorry they ever met me.

lol, the comments to your reply, everyone is a tough guy on the internet.

@@mhsandifer Because the courts would require them to pay your hospital bill.

Most probably already have been sold... and if you did actually get the ass into court you’d get a settlement that he’d never pay in monthly installments of $2.83/month. Just send him a beating...er greeting... instead. Damn typos!

Please keep me updated on your guitars I lost the 57 Les Paul and California and Long Beach it was candy Apple wine burgundy I bought it in 1968

My thoughts exactly. With a couple of really big friends.

If it was one guitar I'd be showing up.

With a hammer and blow torch.

Yep. This Trogly is far too sweet to solve such problems. He doesn't care to see HIS Flying V being sold. Buy it! He would send them ANOTHER guitar, if the V was sold. Fight back!

To accomplish what exactly? Going to jail for assault isn't really going to help you get your guitars back. This isn't the wild West anymore.

Haha haha 😂 yeah

You're raising kids right ! Lol

Why idiot?

@@timofeybarishevskii9188 Lol! your sons right!!

@@timofeybarishevskii9188 yeah why is he an idiot

YaBoiDrake because he gave his guitar collection to this so called luthier

Yes. 100% Unfortunately, he is showing the World that he does not understand what to do in these situations. And should stop giving private advice on these matters.

@@ryans9029 Just doing this video worked against him by showing the guy that is stealing his guitars that he is weak and does not understand how to act and get his stuff back or have that asshole arrested. He seems to dismiss his guitars in this video like the guy who stole them already won. I don't get it considering he has all the guys info and all those emails for proof. He shoulda made this video as a scare tactic and spoke harsh against this guy to scare him into giving back his guitars!

Not everyone is comfortable with conflict. He’s handling it in his own way. Hopefully some local subs can steer this guy in the right direction. I’d get 3 or 4 buddies and show up heavy for him if I lived close by, but that’s obviously not his style. Sounds like this luthier is a punk.

@@andersun16 ...I agree

@@andersun16 sounds to me like he hasn't evenjust simply requested the guitars back.... He let's the luthier talk him into keeping them longer. He meds to say no, I'm coming to get them today. No conflict. No threats. And I'd the guy does not comply, call the police and report them stolen. Simple as that. He doesn't have to be the conflict or tough type to stand up and get his thousands of dollars in guitars back from a thief or scam artist.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e99znKhhqNned6M.html

Exactly. He's been scammed so many times online that I'm beginning to think it's all made up for his channel's content.

😂😂😂

Mystic Knight. you've read my mind. Can someone be so stupid and expose his idiocy in YT? mmmmmhh...

best one yet

Lmao my thoughts as well. I would have just messaged the seller and said hey man sorry but that guitar is stolen and I'm reporting it as such so don't be surprised when the cops come. -oh you're out 600$? -im out about 15k so I'll be recouping that, take it up with the person you bought it from sue them. No way would I be like ah naw it's cool if you sale it. I love losing money.. unless he's got insurance on these and he's taken a claim and now committing insurance fraud? Idk he's kind of a dumb kid

@@jlo7770 He never filed anything. Saying that guitar is his now wouldn't get the guitar back. The guy is clearly a very nice person, but incredible naive.

@@alanbrito7322 100% trogly (Austin) is an idiot. He got ripped off for 16k$ for a fake guitar. I love Austin but he's an idiot.. he's had a ton of guitars stolen from him and he's done nothing... Austin is dumb and not trust worthy because he let's people steal from him... sorry but??? He gets what he gets

Exactly. This guy needs to man up and start being assertive.

Maybe he was acting fast and acting now.....when he stole it!😂😂😂😂

I think he has more of an ideology like that in his mind but he doesn’t wanna absolutely trash the guy online in case he’s not lying all of a sudden

his actions are at least... understandable if the story is true. Lets put it this way, i'm going in hospital, that means i'm possibly dying, and while no one may like it, im looking out for me first and everyone else a far FAR second, if selling that guitar pays for me breathing tomorrow, guess what's getting sold. You may not like it, and being on the receiving end of it sucks, but its understandable. granted, I assume everyone who dicks you is a scammer and not a sob story because a sob story form most people gets them to lay off the big boy actions.

alidan I agree to a point...that being said if you sell that guitar and pull through when you get out the first thing you are doing is giving the owner of the guitar the money or working towards getting that done.

Well said

Right? Trogly is fuckin stupid for that.

He was new to the game. It's alright. He's got those Gibson monitors and that KFC bag back there. He'll make up for the loss with the deals he'll get with those guys.

Dude is a sucker. Wow! I’d never make a video showing how naive I was lol

Matt Perkins Cant be too much of a sucker to build up a collection like he has/had. He’ll get back there too. If he was crying maybe not but he’s accepting and willing to share so others don’t stuff up.

As sooon as he said "I sent 16 of my guitars" or something like that, I felt sorry for him.

i'm a looner, only got 2 friends. one is called Smith...

cramp guessing the other is Wesson

That's stupid advice. If he does that he's 100% guaranteed to end up in a much worse situation with the law.

Right..And the police will be happy with that move

Or file a civil suit( you had a real contract) and get a court order. Its not so costly and will get the stuff back.

i guess he doesnt mind to be scammed. maybe he made more money by posting this videos. haha

That is a good way to get ventilated. Better to retain a lawyer, prove to the county court that said individual is in obsessional of your personal property and allow the sheriff or police to recover that property with a warrant. Unless the guy is insane, everything will be settled out of court and in a decent fashion.

That’s sounds like a better idea for a video than this

@@kaiserwilhelm1938 The police and courts will almost laugh at you for wanting to get them involved in something so trivial to them. And yes, you're right, trying to retrieve your property yourself might get you shot at, but it might be your only option. Better off just not sending anyone your expensive equipment?

@@devilsoffspring5519 Yeah, it's unfortunate but the police probably won't get involved unless you know someone, and they would probably advise you to sue the guy since you have contracts for the work and proof. So then the guy will just ignore the resulting civil suit and you're out the lawyers fee and time spend pursuing a civil case that the police will also then decline to enforce.

You have a point. But also maybe he's not freaking out for the sake of the video.

Probably wipes his ass with money.

He would rather send them off than learn to fix them himself. He has the money to waste.

he said learn from him!! take pics of everything and all nubers so you canmake a report!!

There may also be legal processes in play that it wouldn't be helpful for him to comment on in a public forum.

Yeah they are gone

@@beefnacos6258 And so does the money he got from it. Most scammers are big spenders. It sure went to the local casino the same evening as he got it.

I believe mr. Trogly has already written this off as a loss/experience! Basically, IF he can get anything back (that he basically has NO PROOF of ownership of) it's a win... but not worth any investment of time /money.

He’s an idiot

Yeah that's very gullable.

If you look at the comment Megaman X made, further up the page, it seems this "luthier" is involved with smuggling of endangered species from Belize. And Trogly is aware of that. That's why he's not getting the law involved.

!? Do you mean pathological liar? Or chronic.

@@danskeebro4365 Pathological. In the heat of the moment, out of anger, I misspoke.

!? Just asking man don't worry.

Nah man I'm even more legit, send em my way

greedy butts!! i am good!! so just send me 3! that will pay rent for ayear!!

Sounds good

I’m even better. I’m too legit. Too legit to quit.

You just dont understand how legit I am. When I do something bad, I call the police to arrest them.

He prolly gave his credit card info for the entrance free 💀

hahahahaha!

Except you have to have some sense to get “more money” in the first place. Often there are calculated risks to get money, you have to be prepared to take losses and learn from them. As they say success is often achieved at the cost of many failures. In the process you also gain resilience and objectivity, that’s make you a happier more balanced individual. A life lived!

@@michaeldahm214 A calculated risk would be to send 1 guitar to said stranger, then evaluate the quality of work upon return. If the work is good and the person is reliable, send over the other guitars. This genius sent multiple guitars across the country to some random dude and is then surprised to find them being sold off lol. If that's how you define living life... good to luck to you!

Jordan I don’t disagree. It is a mistake to send a bunch of guitars to some “random guy”. The “living your life” bit referred to the willingness to accept your mistake without losing it and becoming overwhelmed with negativity and making your self totally miserable. Instead see if you can objectively try and resolve the issue and possibly get a positive result

Lmao so true

michael Dahm unless your born or marry into wealth

@Barry Goldwater Yeh still hurts

did u try again tho

@@frogwithsocks5408 Meh..

Not to accuse of anything. But seems like that luthier guy has something really really against Trogly not to push to extreme recovery measures. Hmmmmmm this world is one big wild wild west...

Hahahahahaha

Now now...leave it where it is😉

Too bad he paid 4k for it.

bigguscurlyus seriously...

He would turn up missing. Bet that.

@@docd-monik4380 If he turns up how can he be missing? It's like saying "he would wake up dead".....

+100

Probably could agree

Fintan no Simp for this wimp

The old saying rings very true: a fool and his money are easily parted

I think he needs to be punched more than the guy that has the guitars

Definite possibility but not everyone who does drugs, even hard drugs, do such things. I've known all sorts of addicts, people you would never ever suspect, who are quite successful through their own hardwork. I was an addict in my youth, along with my husband who I've been with 20 years. We had addictions to all sorts of drugs, we liked everything really. We had been told that we were some of the most functioning addicts people had ever seen but we didn't ever do anything illegal to get anything and always worked. We've never been fired ever and held down the same job for years on end. When I was ready to quit, it was hard, but I did it completely on my own. Some people can't do that but some can. I've never been arrested. I don't and never looked like a crackhead. I did my best to take care of myself. Now if I was ever up for 2 days straight, yeah I probably looked a but rough, but overall I've always been told by people that they were shocked at how old I was. Even when I was 35 people really believed I was early 20s. I've been asked out by young college guys and their jaw literally dropped to find out I was basically old enough to be their mother. Now that I'm basically 40 I have aged the most in one year than I did in several but still not badly. I still don't even use makeup beyond lip gloss so obviously it's not that bad. I haven't used any drugs, except shrooms in many years. I won't ever give up those, and it's a rare occurrence anyway. But we are successful and well off enough now with a family despite all the things we had trouble with once. I can turn down any opiate, even right in front of me. I had my wisdom teeth pulled several years ago and I accepted the norcos out of fear of dry socket, but only took 1 the first night and threw the other 14 away once healed and on the last 2 wisdom teeth I just turned down the painkillers. I'm that much beyond it at this point. I'm also around alchohol constantly but haven't drank in many many years. Uppers could be difficult but I avoid those and any talk about them. Watching movies like Goodfellas still twists my stomach up and I usually have to run to the toilet. That's just seeing use on tv. But I haven't touched any in a decade now. I haven't had mdma since a good 10 yrs so I also avoid that but mostly because the last few times it wasn't real mdma. They are like shrooms for me. Not an addiction. If someone gave me one as good as back in the day, I'd accept sure, but would take responsibly, saving it for a weekend and kids at a friend's house. But I don't expect to ever see the real stuff again, not like it was in the 90s. I think they make it different now and I was done trying it again many years ago. Sorry to ramble, I just wanted to really make the point that crappy people do crappy things. I hate when people blame terrible behavior on drug usage and not themselves. Something like PCP(the one drug I've never tried), might make someone do something truly out of their control, but most drugs the person is still in enough control to know right from wrong, especially when talking about something particularly heinous.

@@beccak1932 totally concur. I used IV heroin for six years and I've never stolen from anybody and did two STEM degrees under the influence.

@@beccak1932 i was speaking from personal experience myself, it's the reason I'm willing to wager that it's drugs. Booze doesn't manifest itself like this. Any long term such addict, especially for are amor l able to remain "functioning," indefinitely; it's just no possible unless for some reason you're independently wealthy (though i know quite a few people that come from money, and even they can't maintain for too long). It seems this story could be used as a hypothetical story used in those "how to tell if a friend or family member is an addict," it literally contains almost every red flag there is. If there's one thing that all junkies share, it's that when things get desperate (which can main anything from not being able to cop, to robbing liqueur stores) they'll take advantage of any opportunity they can. With this story, i can completely believe that the guy at least intended to act in good faith, it most likely wasn't a case of him fully intending on ripping Trogly's off. He probably fully intended to do what he said he was going, unfortunately for the Trogly's, it was a matter of bad timing. Everything about this story I've heard and seem many times before. Inconsistent and irregular productivity: at first everything went down as it should have. Then the ghosting, where he just falls off the face of the earth. The constantly changing phone number is a BIG sign, it's something that places like potential employers, companies, skip tracing, background checks, etc. If someone has changed their phone number more than 2 or 3 times in a decade, it's a concern because with the exception of maybe being stalked, there's not a lot of reasons to change your number unless you have no choice. The "medical issues" is another ubiquitous story addict give. Lastly the way he disappears only to pop his head out every once in a while is why im confident that not only is the idea that he has a drug problem, but it's one that is in q constant cycle of being clean then relapsing. If this story had 1 or 2 of these things alone, while it's still likely to be drugs, it's possible there's another cause. ALL of them though? Id have to hear a really convincing story as to how it could be anything else. It's possible he actually has the guitars, with the exception of the Flying V. He might be selling or putting his tools in hawk to support his habits, and he can't actually do the work until he gets them back.

I agree 100%. Probably why only some guitars have been sold once he gets desperate. I'm sure he convinces himself once he gets clean he will make it all right. I've been there.

THIS!

The whole obsession over guitars with specific "rare" original factory paintjobs is naive, a naive fetish. The paintjob is the fastest & (often) cheapest part of the build, but it always puts stars in people's eyes quicker than anything else.

You wish to be a gullible victim?

@@MrBikboi AGREED 👍

@@MrBikboi No, he wants to be rich enough to lose that kind of money without going bankrupt.

It’s theater. In real life, many actors are miserable. When the camera goes on at any level, the actor emerges. Even on KZfaq

The problem with selling online is you get scammed. Just stick with fb marketplace and sell local. f*k selling online.

Yea that's been my motto for many years! I never understood the get your guitar "beat up" for character. I treasure my wife, I wouldn't beat her up and tell the cops it's good for her appearance and character. The older my guitars get, the more I take of them. The newer guitars, get the "baby" treatment from the start. Good post!

Metal

You should have slashed his tires for good measure as well

Good

POWER MOVE!!

Things you unfortunately cannot do anymore in these times, though with the whole virus confusion out I was finally able to get my dirtbike back from a guy who stole it about 8 months ago, there were cameras on some houses but I went out during the night and took back my bike, it had been spray painted over my beautiful cover and I had to slowly peel off the ugly metallic blue paint. Still haven't found my stolen Ibanez SR800 bass though

*Infuriated

*infiltrated

*inflammable

*inuit

"How are you so collectively calm" More money than sense. Could have donated them to some kids instead. I'd work to retrieve it based on that fact alone. Instead of gifting it to some criminal without putting up a fight.

I'm more impressed he has somehow made money

That guitar aint worth that much money kid

Lapis Eye not just that Flying V. He has 10 others or so that we know about.

There isn't even any consistency in the lies he is being told. I'm unclear why his friend had the guitars and if he was or was not trying to sell them on his behalf. It doesn't make sense anyway you don't sell someones property to try to recoup some of the money, surely you just return their property and apologise?

Does anyone believe any of this shit? If you really had those guitars and wanted custom work would you ship or visit someone local? B is your answer.

@@logantylerb.5299 More telling, right?

Breath of fresh air to scammers and con artists too. Doesn't even call police when he's got them caught in a web of lies.

Great idea for reverb and bring a gun

Cringe

@@psyche5893 found the easily scammed person

Yep, I will not send $16,000 worth of guitars to a complete stranger now, which I was planning on doing tomorrow! This video taught me a valuable lesson.

@123645445 I believe it is a federal law for pawn shops to take I.D.s. They are definitely fences of stolen property and the A.G. / District Attorney should be coming down on them.

@Comrade Kong We are both strangers to one another therefore, not entitled to believe what a stranger has posted. But I'll say this, just because businesses share the same common laws to operate from state to state, doesn't mean best practices is always 'practiced'. People will always find ways to circumvent laws. Perhaps the thieves had a fake ID, I don't know, I wasn't there when the shop purchased my gear from the thieves. Back in 2005 pawnshops in Maryland did not require fingerprints (and still don't). Also, I never got all of my stolen property back, what I got back I was extremely grateful for and wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth by wondering why the detective didn't take my property to the police station. Perhaps he didn't need to do it since he had my notebook. He allowed me to keep my property after I identified it right there in the shop, and he had all the proof that the gear was mine in my notebook. I have no idea if the police ever caught the burglars, I moved not too long after that once I found out that the community was going through a spike in crime. But if you will take one word of truth from me? Log serial numbers and take pictures of your property.

@@darbywing2 I am a licensed Texas Pawnbroker. Pawn Shops are licensed at the state level, not the federal level. The only thing we do that's federally sanctioned is firearm transactions and we do get DL/ID information on those along with photocopies. However, on just regular pawns/sales, there is no requirement to collect a copy of the ID, though we are required to record the ID number on the pawn/sales ticket. Some pawnshops have begun to utilize point of sale photo capture but those are usually the higher end pawnshops. It sounds like this may be a mom and pop pawnshop.

That is a very interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

Seriously. This dude is a clown

@@BoxOfCurryos which dude

This was early in his career he was a newbie. Besides everyone makes mistakes

It's gotta be fake, right? NO ONE ANYWHERE is this stupid. And instead of calling the police he makes a video? Nothing adds up.

bashpr0mpt Exactly.

Time for that was before making this video.

Me and 2A.

Possession is 9/10 of the law. This guy will never see his shit again.

@@boofert.washington2499 you know that's not a literal statement right?

He is playing into it to get more comments and traffic from people that say " WHY U SOH STUPITD?!!!1?''''

Bruh he was a newbie he didn't know better

This isn't naive, naive is getting scammed by buying a shit guitar from AliExpress (which is what those blanks were, they were 10-15x kit guitars in bulk purchase orders for a few hundred bucks. I see them all the time (I make instruments, not guitars though, they're too common and worthless, a good quality hand made custom guitar can't compete with big brands made in China and 'finished' in not-China). The dude had no photos of him making anything, just buying parts.

@@bashkillszombies not true. Nothing about your sentence makes any sense…

Nice.

But spiders... they are trustworthy. :-D

He must’ve had a shitty dog then

“Never trust anyone who bleeds for five days and doesn’t die.” - Angry old woman hater. 😆

A dog will look at you when it bites, but a human will happily stab you in the back. -my grandpa.

Yup, that's what I was thinking too. NEVER give your stuff to someone to restore without getting the necessary paperwork/contracts to have the work done. That's standard business practice!

Nope the V has not been restored, look at the listing, total disaster

The V is worth more unrestored being a Ronnie Hughes played guitar.

@Comrade Kong for comedy

Probably due to the thought of faster turnaround to get them all done.

He’s brain dead?

Because he's an idiot with more money than sense.

Its obvious he's rich

His mother/wife won't let him go.

He's autistic? I mean seriously, as a trust fund kid he could even hire a lawyer to do this all for him.

HE WAS A NEWBIE WHEN THIS HAPPENED

For $16,000 he could of gotten slash to sell him a tour used Les Paul.

HaveMercyMissPercy I don’t know. I certainly wouldn’t want even a real one for 600 bucks. Plain silly.

Living in Youngstown ohio.i have seen the godz several times.soon as you said the name I knew.great band

Lawyer, not police. Keep in mind if he has the name and addy of the 'luthier' there should be no issue filing some sort of civil case, on top of reporting the crime.

great tip

@@StIdes-wb3ir 😉👍

*Pro Tip*

@@Nathan_Coley looool

Wow you're hard

there’s definitely either more to the story he’s not telling us or he’s making it up for views

thats fucking brutal dude. Damn

Damn, your brother stole from you, not to disparage your brother but was or is on drugs.

I had a similar thing happen with my brother because he stole a family heirloom from our families house, so I haven't spoken to him since and probably never will. Some people might think that's harsh, but think about it -- would you do that to YOUR sibling, and if so, then what would that say how you feel about them? It's basically like telling someone that you don't give a shit about them. It's funny too because he had done various smaller irritating and/or hurtful things all my life such as hitting on my girlfriend and shit like that, and my mother always said to me "Oh, he loves you, these feelings are just your imagination" , and then he pulled that stunt of stealing the family er-loom from our house and that was like the BIG last straw, and just confirmed what I'd been feeling all my life. He's been fairly successful in business, but he's crapped on people and most who work with him seem to not work with him again, and I think it's because he always screws people even if it's just for a bit, like as an example, we co-wrote a song long ago which did get used on TV (which is the only reason I found out about this), but it turns out when he registered it with ASCAP,, he put the songwriting credits as 75% in his name and 25% in mine even though it was a 50/50% endeavor. So that's the kind of shit he's done to people all his life. He's also been married three times and it's of course it's always the woman's fault. Yeah right -- whatever... brother.

I think they are an hour away from the guy he sent them to at the guys friends house he left them at while in the hospital

@@GOOSE-1334 lmao. Just imagine knowing you have 16K worth of guitars that are just being handed off to more and more strangers. wtf... lol

Remind me not to watch your channel again.

Man is diseased, thiefs are just one facet of it😒

Yours were stolen, the brilliant guy making the video gave his guitars away. What a sucker.

Bro u had stuff worth some good money

@@JR-ke9lm yeah. It’s not about the money, though. The ‘83 Strat was my second electric guitar. I traded in my first (a Gibson Challenger II) for it. The Gold Top was given to me, as a gift, by a good friend before he returned to Japan, after college.

@@ThrashRebel damn man that sucks :( I’m 18 rn I just bought my first strat