I once cleared a warehouse of pawn shop items out. After a couple of dealers were allowed to cherrypick the precious metals, gemstones and high value stuff, everything else-literally twenty tons of stereo equipment, tools, guns, musical instruments, fishing tackle, baseball bats and gloves, everything, went into a leased SSI Shredder. Must have been a hundred guitars. They decided to take a tax writeoff and did not want any liability for stolen property, ATF or any other issues.

There were an awful lot of these offbrand seventies and eighties guitars in that pile.

The only thing I was sad to have to throw in there was an old Leslie-a single rotor model in beautiful shape. That and a old Hewlett Packard oscilloscope in perfect shape. But since some idiot would have stripped it for the tubes anyway….