If he really DID rape this guitar, there is nothing more to say...
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http://crazyaboutguitars.webs.com/vintagecoolguitarpic.htm
Yeah, I'm afraid that back then modifying guitars wasn't a big deal, and certainly wasn't the Holy Sacrilege it has become. Right up into the eighties, people were doing it all the time, and no one thought the worse of it. Shit, in the late seventies a 1950's strat was just an old guitar, not a collector's piece. No one cared. You certainly can't blame a guy for doing something like that in the sixties. It is a mistake to judge historic events and people by the standards of the modern day, and that is as true in guitars as it is in politics.