Anyone near Falkirk?

HarrySeven

I may need a wee bit of assistance re. collecting something…

Funkfingers

New car, caviar, four star, daydream.
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Kittyfrisk

Please tell me you didn't buy that pair of kelpie's on Gumtree, one previous owner, VGC?

CavemanGrogg

HarrySeven said:

I may need a wee bit of assistance re. collecting something…

I'm around 70 miles away from Falkirk, maybe 80 miles.

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

New car, caviar, four star, daydream.
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Ahhh…you’ve just reminded me why I hate Pink Floyd.

maharg101

As long as your nae tellin' us to get tae Falkirk, then nae bother

ICBM

About 30 miles, if there’s no-one closer…

DrBob

I’m in Glasgow so not far but I don’t have a car (well a reliable one anyway) but my best/oldest friend and fellow guitar freak actually lives in Falkirk so might be able to help 

failed_astronaut

I’m 10 minutes from Falkirk @HarrySeven PM me what you need

HarrySeven

Cheers all! PMs incoming.

bassbora

Always happy to help 

Kalimna

I work in Larbert, 5 mins from Falkirk. Happy to help out.

HarrySeven

Hiya All

Thanks for the kind offers of assistance!

To cut a long story short, the seller doesn’t have a gigbag or case, but he may have a guitar box. I’ve had too many guitars arrive with snapped necks to trust anything to chance.

So…essentially, I need to work out a way in which the guitar gets collected, parcelled appropriately (inc. a case of some description, which I could courier up?) and sent on to me - that is unless in the unlikely event that anyone up in your neck of the woods is travelling down South-ish anytime soon? 

This is the guitar in question:

https://www.facebook.com/share/uCRXHuAWLsKW96ps/?mibextid=79PoIi

https://i.imgur.com/DEc8kXK.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/Ntm0wvr.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/MlOdzul.jpeg

Bit of a nostalgia trip for me - nothing new there!

These were quite common in the early ‘80’s - very typical construction for the time. I played one fairly recently and it was really nice. 

Although they’re not expensive, I’d rather see it arrive in one piece!

Obvs more than happy to reimburse any fuel/expenses/time spent fannying about, etc…

Offset

Now that is a new name to me - although it's from my era I really don't remember Lincoln as a brand.  I thought it was going to be something like an Aria - that neck-thru with stripey wood was very popular back in the day.  I'm off to check Google :-)

Looking forward to a NGD post.

BillDL

Damn.  Wish I had seen that first, but I don't look at Facebook Marketplace.  Looks a bit like a Travis Bean with its very rounded sausagey horns.  I've never encountered a guitar with Lincoln on the headstock.  It should have been Lincolnshire.

If any of the Central Scotland wallahs can't go and pick it up I could probably do this for you next week.

Sarge

Lovely stuff, good luck!


also, did you nab that Hondo? 

dchwhite

Wow - I  had a Lincoln, probably my best guitar during my late teens. One of many that were bought from the much-missed Cambridge Resale, and then sold back to them some years later when I'd run out of money again

HarrySeven

Sarge said:

did you nab that Hondo? 

Sadly, I gave it a miss in the end - had to direct cash elsewhere.

HarrySeven

Apologies for the delay in responding - engaging in Mothers Day activities is interfering with guitar-related stuff.

Brief thought re. shipping - part of the problem is not knowing quite what case will fit?

BobHillman

I've seen an identical guitar with the name "Storm" on the headstock.

Funkfingers

Kittyfrisk said:

Please tell me you didn't buy that pair of kelpie's on Gumtree, one previous owner, VGC?

For a moment, I thought that H7 might have bought a decommissioned combined heat and power station for one of his gear storage warehouses.