How many machinists here?

[Jack Hanson]

I've only recently sold a classic Rickenbacker Fry Pan in excellent condition and 100% functional........

only recently learning the purchaser was unhappy with it and went about sawing off the 'nut' and replacing it with a home-made gizmo aluminum unit. Next on his list was messing with the original Rickenbacher pickup as it was 'floating'.

I still find it hard to believe anyone would do such a thing to such a collector's item.

Sawed off the nut on an original Fry Pan? Seriously? That's akin to cutting off the smile on the Mona Lisa. Hard to believe anyone who reads these pages with any regularity would do anything so short sighted and down right ignorant. Should be arrested by the guitar police for vandalism.