It won't help you right now - but I take pictures of all my gear, front-rear-sides-head-body-etc.
Basses - amps - stomps - PAs - cabs - cables - cases - all of it gets a photographic record.
Shoot the serial numbers, scan the receipts and any/all paperwork and take a shot of yourself playing them for a better record too.
[I also stick my business card under all my PGs too - or tuck it into a cab/amp and into places where there are 'places'.]
Then I post these in a private area on Picasa where I can upload them and they are there forever.
Create separate folders in Picasa to hold each piece of equipment individually so there's no confusion later on as to what headstock went with which bass.
If you get Picasa and you have GMail, it will migrate to take the same contact list you have so you can send these same pixs to any address on the internet too. If you don't have GMail - get it.
Unlike those other pix-display sites, you won't go stale or forget to refresh the records and have the pixs all deleted when you go to see them.
You've all seen "
This picture is no longer available" on some of the other postings here - right?
I have also posted videos of me playing with the gear in a private folder on YouTube for better records. All my computers have these passwords and sites saved on them so any of my 'puters can access these file from anywhere I can get a WIFI or hardwire connex too.
I also bought a domain through GoDaddy and I have more files on there - it's cheap and I have 100Gig of storage (an extra fee) for a lot more than just pictures.
Every receipt I have and mortgage papers and tax records are there for digital records if the hard copies get lost or whatever.
