My question for today is regarding modifying vintage guitars and the morals behind doing or not doing it in today's world. These guitars are not going to get cheaper, history has taught us this.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that I'm seriously considering buying myself an old 65-75 Jaguar and making it into what I want it to be (probably a JagBlaster). I don't want a modern one. I like my guitars beat up and gnarly and wearing their years like a badge of honour. I don't like feeling scared of accidentally chipping a finish or having to baby them. To me they're tools to be wrangled and strangled into barking.
So is it blasphemy to spend £2500-3500, while they're still that 'low', on a vintage Fender and start pulling stuff out, routing for humbuckers and making the collectors cry?
Obviously I wouldn't consider doing this to a good example (and probably wouldn't spend the money people are asking for them anyway) but if I bought, for example, a beat to hell '65 with a couple of non-original parts already and went at it - would I be facing the gallows? Would it make me an arsehole?
Opinions, scathing or otherwise, openly invited
Picture of a familiar example for interest:
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