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fabandgear wrote:Someone converted this historic guitar into an ersatz George Harrison by changing the nut (to switch the octave strings) and adding a white pickguard and black knobs. This would be similar to putting Lace Sensors and a Floyd Rose on Buddy Holly's Clearlake Stratocaster.

IMHO that's a stretch, but it definitely reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Burns has Homer buy and eat Spider-Man #1 in front of Comic Book Guy solely for amusement ,and naturally, I'm in the large majority here that did not approve of the "mods."

The original nut was removed and a modified one was glued in place of it. That mod can be reversed, but the original was disturbed and will never be as it was before. That little intrusion would be similar to flicking an original piece of paint from a classic painting, then gluing a different chip of paint on to cover it. It's just a cheap disregard for something historic because it doesn't conform to someone's pop-culture idolatry.

Here is a good analogy, I think:

jps wrote:Here is a good analogy, I think:

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Ouch!