Just to voice my neutral opinion, which is support for valcotone, cut him a little slack...seems like a serious Guild guy, found himself in a lose-lose situation, at least that hardware can go into an old Guild that may be otherwise mint, but had a blown pickup or toasted tuners. Those pickups are rare he may have really helped someone out. Valco does not appear to be a "flipper" or high volume "parter-outer." Of course anyone that is either of those things is free to be...but I don't get this vibe from Valcotone. I'm not familiar with the subject neck shaving but would think the instrument as a whole would have very little "vintage value" to anyone, as compared to an unmodified one.
Also Valco could have kept his mouth shut and unloaded it to an unknowing buyer, trying to recoup his investment. That buyer could have at any point long term or short re-sold the guitar, possibly even to one of us....by parting out the guitar Valco has essentially made the aforementioned scenario impossible. Someone would have to go to great lengths now to represent it as original. He has also publicly advertised and explained the shaved neck with the serial number. I think he has done this community more good than bad in this case. Put yourself in his shoes, the damage was done long ago, he is cleaning up the mess now. Sorry it didn't work out Valco.