Dear Dr. Guitar,
Good news and Bad news!
The good news is that I've recently inherited a rare, vintage instrument, that has been in my Aunts' family for years.
It is a Selmer Maccaferri made in 1933 and, I'm given to understand, fairly valuable.
As the only "musical" member of the family, apart from my cousin Winston who is something of a virtuoso on the spoons, it was agreed that the guitar should go to me following Aunties unfortunate encounter with the No.73 bus.
Apparently Auntie Edna was attempting to retrieve her lucky bingo pen, which had rolled under the stationary vehicle, when the bus drove away with Edna snagged by her surgical stocking on the underside. Three stops later Auntie was deposited, pen in hand, outside the Mecca bingo hall but unfortunately her number was up.
But I digress! Now where was I?........ Ah yes! The Bad news,
The bad news is that, at some time in the past, a previous owner has sought fit to embellish the guitar with his name, scratched, rather clumsily, onto the body. I have managed to remove most of the lettering except where the pen has pressed most deeply into the wood and was about to get the power-sander out when I thought of you!
I certainly wouldn't want to do anything to devalue this lovely instrument(unlike a certain vandal by the name of "Django Reinhardt") and would appreciate your advice on this matter.
Although I'm not given to violence, if I could get my hands on that Django chappie I'd chop his bloody fingers off!
Yours despairingly,
Ivor Screwluss.