Reading this lot has really brought back the hurt and pain. I was 21 ( I'm 48 now) and I had a beautiful 000 18 that I had bought several years before from a bloke in Eastbourne. I played around the Wallasea area for several years. I had several guitars in the flat I was living in. Someone broke in and stole just the Martin. They knew me, knew my guitar and went for it. I cried for weeks. And still do from time to time even though I have now other Martins. I'm sorry to hear of such stories. It is one of the sadder fraternities, musicians who have their souls torn through theft of an instrument. If there is a law, Buddhist, Christian or otherwise, I hope……