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hey Trogg......If you bought this table, you could dissolve the resin and get the guitar out and have it refinished......I've made a few resin pours before that didn't turn out like I had hoped, so i dissolved the resin with acetone......it turns it into a crumbling gel-like material, but it may also react to the binding ......for $2k, it would be worth trying and at the very least you would have a set of vintage pickups and a project guitar to sell!!....AND....every place that looks hazy are spots where the resin is not attached to the guitar, which means they didn't use a pressure pot to set the resin properly.....and that makes it a lot easier to remove the resin and the resin is NOT completely filled in all voids and crevasses.....it CAN be removed to make a profit......the acetone will also make the resin somewhat repell it's self from all other materials so it can be safely, almost wiped from the guitar......but your right, you would have to take in to consideration that the guitar wasn't set in the resin for a reason such as a broken headstock or cracked/separated back.....keep us updated on what your going to do with this!!
+1 thanks. However.. erm.. you were saying 'resin' weird.. like 'rou-sen' .. resin is pronounced like 'raisin' but with an 'e' instead of a 'a'. Back on topic.. iiwy.. you're not DIY guitar channel Trog mate.. if you were you should'a got that guitar and restored it.. but since you aren't then no.. it's too much hassle for you. If you have a friend that does DIY guitar/luthery/tech etc.. then maybe they could buy it and do a vid for us? otherwise.. no it's not fair on you as a time hog + major hassle.
The scary part is that resin gets hot and the more resin you are pouring the hotter it gets, I would bet that this guitar has damage on a level that could not be restored.
In a million years every les paul will be turned to dust but this one will be still intact, the aliens will X-ray it and study its composition, make 3D models...
As someone who works with resin, the deep cracks in that reveal pockets that is pulling away from the surface of the body and finish leaving gaps between the resin and body. It could be cut away the bulk of the resin. And a heat gun could be used to soften and pry away the resin. along with acetone soaking on parts. It'd need a full refin more than likely but it looks like most old home style resin pours I've seen. They do get brittle and soft over time which is why it's cracking so much throughout. Someone could invest time and work into it if they really wanted to save it. You'd lose the pots etc but you'd have the shell to work with.
@@mikeh.6709 You can if you work carefully around it enough. Cut around it as as close as possible as mentioned and then use a heat gun to slowly soften the rest of the resin and chip away at it with a chisel. The more layers you remove from it it should pry away from it smoothly. Just don't rush it and it would come free enough to start work on. Acetone can work for areas that are a little more stubborn. I've removed items from resin I didn't like the way they turned out, heat gun and chisels work well enough and a little acetone on spots for cleaning off the excess works.
@@RekEightyI appreciate the insight! will acetone immediately tear apart the finish on the guitar I assume? Also there is a quite a lot of a thin air pocket around a lot of this guitar, which makes it seem more possible, I would just be worried about working around the bridge and tuners, but I guess it would just mean more fine cutting and slowly work it closer to it
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Resin is canna related as well .. usually referring to the shyt residue left in your bowl, bong or pipe. Rosin is obtained with a press to squash flowers or hash.
The moment I received that thing, every waking thought would always direct me back to getting it out. It would be a straight up obsession straight right out of a Herman Melville novel. It looks like hammered dog crap as a table. It would definitely be coming out if for no other reason than doing another pour of some modern resin.
@@pulaski1 makes sense. Big conversation piece still getting talked about later, plus you made lemonade out of something that was otherwise "desireable" junk. I'd guess 3-5 gallons needed to encapsulate it, which would be like $200ish today. Not a cheap piece of furniture by any means.
May have been the guitar of the notorius Darth Fader - it had gone over to the dark side of the farce. In other words - I am from the Twin Cities, knew Pete and his store - and he was among the many that did a LOT of cocaine in those wild days.
I remember seeing this at Pete's. He was dealing with high end guitars in the 80s. My dad sold his 56 les paul gold top there in 88. Forthe princely still of 3000. If I could ever find that one....
Its episodes like this that have me marvelling at Austin's depth of geekery when it comes to not only noticing details but dating changeovers. Hats off to you sir. 😂
If I could get it to NZ, I'd make a video series of trying to free it. It should be possible, with the caveat of causing major trauma. Full refin at least afterwards, if it's not all vacuumed into the cavities as part of the process it'd be possible to get a lot of it off. Probs a refret needed too once you're done, but all part of the excitement right? It wouldn't be economical, so I'd probably take it on as a personal project, but as someone with a buncha black nitro and spare fretwire lying around? I'd give it a punt. Idk, maybe someone would be willing to work with me here.
I was thinking that there would be some air bubbles in the acrylic that it's encased in. because there are a lot of air pockets in a guitar that would have to fill up with the resin. and it would be a slow process. making it virtually impossible to not have air bubbles in the resin.
yeah, the resin gets into the cavities of everything including the pots and the tuners, they would be filled with solid resin so no turning of knobs unless you fully replace.
For future trogly, love the content but its pronounced rez in not roz in. the latter is used for traditional string instruments on the bow for induced friction to make the sound the former is a 2 part mixture that makes what you see here. Much love and stay safe.
I can see how this looked cool as a table when it was first done, clear, glass smooth resin. But now the resin has degraded so badly, I would seriously consider trying to remove it. I think it could be removed without much if any damage. It would certainly be interesting to see someone take their time to remove, with care.
I've de-potted enough "hidden" circuit boards to be confident I could get it all good'n out and just need new pots and switch. Resin potted pickups are a thing, so no loss there.
Clear resin tends to yellow, I believe adding a little blue dye can offset that, but I'm not sure it's right for a guitar. It looks like it has delaminated at the contact with the guitar body (lucky it wasn't a submarine, ahem). Maybe that is inadequate surface cleaning/preparation, but of course that wooden body expands and contracts differently to the resin and there is a wide expanse. The cracking might have been inevitable, or exacerbated by stressing at the mounting/poor resin choice. The table is ugly. A glass-topped table cavity would have been better. I think it is valueless.
Cut really close to the guitar. Put loads of drill holes into the resin to weaken the material. Then… if there are any air gaps around the guitar, drill into the air gap and then force air into that gap in the hope you can crack up the resin from around the guitar…. You might need to heat up the reason before attempting to force the air into the air gap.
"Long time listener, first time caller" - dried resin is like concrete...don't let the fact that it's clear fool ya. It will NEVER be be playable again, and the chances of "retrieving" it are slim to none. Oh, and it's "resin" NOT "rosin".
I was just reading about it and it said that you would cut it out and then you could use a laser with the depth set and that would get it completely out. So it would be quite a process but you could do it.
Given the bubbles in the epoxy, I doubt it penetrated the truss rod channel, the control cavities, or the pickups, so extracting it from the resin might not be _quite_ the challenge that you first thought, though still a major task though.
Hey Trogly, have you ever come across a Mojo Chessmaster guitar? John Flansburgh plays one, and I’d be very interested to see you document one on your show. I truly don’t know much about them, outside of him, playing them in the band, but he also plays Gibsons and Fenders, both of which I’m much more familiar with, especially more so nowadays due to your show. That said, I certainly think that the Mojo Chessmaster would be a unique piece for your channel, and something quite different from what I’ve seen you document in the past.
It’s so old and with the rust oxidation you could probably chunk most of it off. I’d be willing to bet once you got close it wouldn’t be attached. Some spots yes, but some light heat and solvent and you could free it in about 9 years of scraping
I recently had an idea to do this and make a coffee table. I would use a cheap guitar....but I dig this...I would totally try to extract that. The viscosity of resin is very thick. You'd be surprised what hasn't been touched in there. I don't have 2k to burn just to try or I might
Technically you can dissolve resin with acid - but would you want to pour acid onto this? You'd still have to dremel out the guitar before you did it - and if the acid got into the wood at all, you'd be knackered.
I hear vintage Les Paul, and I think 50s 0r 1960, maybe 61 or so if it’s an SG type one. It would be a long process to remove it from the resin, and it wouldn’t work well, if at all. But if the pour had aged better it would be cool to display.
I hope it was a flawed discard. The pouring of the resin looks like it had some air get in. If one's time equals money, it wouldn't be worth attempting to retrieve and restore.
My first impression from the title was "If someone buys an expensive guitar, don't they have a right to do with it what they want?" But when I saw what it was they had done, I side with the traditionalists, with "How dare you?"
Are you referring to the gold top? Idk if you know the story but there was a tornado in his town and the body of that Les Paul literally ended up in his front yard. He had someone rebuild it and says he loves it.
Resin, (Epoxy) doesn’t bond that well with older finishes like poly, Nitro-cellulose or any type of oil (urethane etc.). It may be salvageable…. The cloudy areas indicate that the epoxy has delaminated and may peel off fairly easily.
if it is/was at St. Paul Guitar Repair (a rather reputable shop last I checked), I would hope that it had one or more issues that warranted this outcome. who knows :)
Is there absolutely no way to get the guitar out? I think it would be hard to do but not impossible. Probably cost way too much to get it out. But yeah, the resin likely destroyed it.
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hey Trogg......If you bought this table, you could dissolve the resin and get the guitar out and have it refinished......I've made a few resin pours before that didn't turn out like I had hoped, so i dissolved the resin with acetone......it turns it into a crumbling gel-like material, but it may also react to the binding ......for $2k, it would be worth trying and at the very least you would have a set of vintage pickups and a project guitar to sell!!....AND....every place that looks hazy are spots where the resin is not attached to the guitar, which means they didn't use a pressure pot to set the resin properly.....and that makes it a lot easier to remove the resin and the resin is NOT completely filled in all voids and crevasses.....it CAN be removed to make a profit......the acetone will also make the resin somewhat repell it's self from all other materials so it can be safely, almost wiped from the guitar......but your right, you would have to take in to consideration that the guitar wasn't set in the resin for a reason such as a broken headstock or cracked/separated back.....keep us updated on what your going to do with this!!
+1 thanks. However.. erm.. you were saying 'resin' weird.. like 'rou-sen' .. resin is pronounced like 'raisin' but with an 'e' instead of a 'a'. Back on topic.. iiwy.. you're not DIY guitar channel Trog mate.. if you were you should'a got that guitar and restored it.. but since you aren't then no.. it's too much hassle for you. If you have a friend that does DIY guitar/luthery/tech etc.. then maybe they could buy it and do a vid for us? otherwise.. no it's not fair on you as a time hog + major hassle.
The scary part is that resin gets hot and the more resin you are pouring the hotter it gets, I would bet that this guitar has damage on a level that could not be restored.
We did this as a test run for the 59....
I can see scientists in the future extracting samples with a needle and trying to create a theme park out of it.
Best comment ever! 😂😂😂
Norlin Park
"Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should"
Spared no expense
In a million years every les paul will be turned to dust but this one will be still intact, the aliens will X-ray it and study its composition, make 3D models...
6 months from now: "Welcome back Troglodytes! Guess what I'm unboxing today!" 😂
It's not "ROSIN " it's 'RESIN ". Rosin is what ballplayers use.
Mr. Correctobro, eh? 😂
@ryanfulldark2775 he isn't wrong. It sounds funny the way Trogly is pronouncing it.
"Rosin" is also what classical string players use, right
… Yes … violinists use rosin … as do music thieves who want to play their les paul with a violin bow … 👀😏👀😏🤫
I’m vaping some bomb hash rosin right now.
Its been potted😂
As someone who works with resin, the deep cracks in that reveal pockets that is pulling away from the surface of the body and finish leaving gaps between the resin and body. It could be cut away the bulk of the resin. And a heat gun could be used to soften and pry away the resin. along with acetone soaking on parts. It'd need a full refin more than likely but it looks like most old home style resin pours I've seen. They do get brittle and soft over time which is why it's cracking so much throughout. Someone could invest time and work into it if they really wanted to save it. You'd lose the pots etc but you'd have the shell to work with.
So you’re telling me I can remove this? I may have bought it…
@@mikeh.6709 You can if you work carefully around it enough. Cut around it as as close as possible as mentioned and then use a heat gun to slowly soften the rest of the resin and chip away at it with a chisel. The more layers you remove from it it should pry away from it smoothly. Just don't rush it and it would come free enough to start work on. Acetone can work for areas that are a little more stubborn. I've removed items from resin I didn't like the way they turned out, heat gun and chisels work well enough and a little acetone on spots for cleaning off the excess works.
@@RekEightyI appreciate the insight! will acetone immediately tear apart the finish on the guitar I assume?
Also there is a quite a lot of a thin air pocket around a lot of this guitar, which makes it seem more possible, I would just be worried about working around the bridge and tuners, but I guess it would just mean more fine cutting and slowly work it closer to it
You can dissolve resin with acetone not sure how much damage it would cause to the guitar but it could be possible to get it out
It would destroy the paint and clear coat. But yeah that''s the best idea.
You can also use vinegar but it takes forever. Acetone would remove the finish, glues and mess up the plastics.
The acetone only works as a solvent before the resin has cured. The guitar is staying there.
It is incapsulated in resin! Rosin is the substance people use on violin bows to increase friction.
I think I had cheap rosin because my violin's rosin was spelled Resin on the package. Oh well, a blunder that will generate many comments haha
Rosin is also a term for a form of cannabis concentrate.
@@miserychannel69 See I thought that one was resin 😂
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Resin is canna related as well .. usually referring to the shyt residue left in your bowl, bong or pipe. Rosin is obtained with a press to squash flowers or hash.
@@miserychannel69 That explains it. Appreciate the info, always dig learning stuff!
The moment I received that thing, every waking thought would always direct me back to getting it out. It would be a straight up obsession straight right out of a Herman Melville novel.
It looks like hammered dog crap as a table. It would definitely be coming out if for no other reason than doing another pour of some modern resin.
Hi I am ringing about the Les Paul -Yes it comes in hard case.
Please put a trigger warning on this video. I am having a panic attack.
Sad sight ain’t it😞?
It's a guitar and not a real life crisis.. Lol
@@pauljohnson3686 No kidding , ha ha ha !!!
I bet that head stock is snapped on the back side.
Was thinking the same thing. On the other hand this might be the be all end all way to shore up a broken Gibson headstock.
Or the neck is hideously twisted, or the truss rod maxed out, or something like that.
@@pulaski1 makes sense. Big conversation piece still getting talked about later, plus you made lemonade out of something that was otherwise "desireable" junk.
I'd guess 3-5 gallons needed to encapsulate it, which would be like $200ish today.
Not a cheap piece of furniture by any means.
I would definitely try to dig that out
I'd have it out in a couple of hours at the most.
In the uk we call that les paul "Shagged"!.
Put it up against the wall, like a Han Solo Les Paul
Whoso pulleth out this LP Custom of this rosin and table, is rightwise king born of all Trogloditia!
Les Paul in Carbonite!
Yep hanging in the cantina behind Max Reebo
May have been the guitar of the notorius Darth Fader - it had gone over to the dark side of the farce.
In other words - I am from the Twin Cities, knew Pete and his store - and he was among the many that did a LOT of cocaine in those wild days.
Han Guitar Solo
I remember seeing this at Pete's. He was dealing with high end guitars in the 80s. My dad sold his 56 les paul gold top there in 88. Forthe princely still of 3000. If I could ever find that one....
That was about $8k in today's money, if it helps.
If Trogly is like Dwight Shrute, Jim did this, probably with a Chibson
I can't imagine what it would take to get it out of there. I would love to see someone try 😂
"What if it dies?"
"The empire will compensate you for your loss"...
"Rosin"? I love rosin! Delicious!
I love the Starburst size chews Lost Farms does. BANG.
@@DD-bu1kg I just load up the Puffco>
Eh, I can see the appeal. It’s a VERY expensive art project that probably looked cool for 20-30 years. Now it’s a cool conversation piece.
At least the pickups won't squeal at high ambient volumes
i'm sure there is a chemical that could melt the resin. the trick would be if you could do it without damaging the guitar
Does it still come with the original case?
What happened to that guitar is why getting a rare good authentic one cost so much today.
Well, at least it can't collect dust in some collectors display...
I could see someone buying this if it actually looked good, but it doesn't.
Ha! I’m local and saw this yesterday and just shook my head
The most upsetting part is that they didn’t adjust the tuners to all face the same direction before putting it in resin
I bet the knobs aren't even all on 10
That’s one way to reinforce a Les Paul neck I suppose…
Its episodes like this that have me marvelling at Austin's depth of geekery when it comes to not only noticing details but dating changeovers. Hats off to you sir. 😂
I still have my Pete's polishing cloth. Did biz there. Bought my '56 Black Beauty and my '57 Goldtop there. Many famous people doing biz there.
do you remember seeing the guitar table in there?
I don't think that Trogly knows what rosin actually is.
No double box for shipping needed.
I mean, the person said the guitar was very used. The mix and match knobs are evidence of that.
If I could get it to NZ, I'd make a video series of trying to free it. It should be possible, with the caveat of causing major trauma. Full refin at least afterwards, if it's not all vacuumed into the cavities as part of the process it'd be possible to get a lot of it off. Probs a refret needed too once you're done, but all part of the excitement right? It wouldn't be economical, so I'd probably take it on as a personal project, but as someone with a buncha black nitro and spare fretwire lying around? I'd give it a punt. Idk, maybe someone would be willing to work with me here.
Why not dig a hole to England or the US instead?
Other than the electronics you could sand it down to the husk. Chances are it wouldn't be worth the effot.
So did this thing sell? Not seeing it on reverb
it's on facebook market
I bet with those air pockets you could maybe crack it open
theres a guy on you tube tested epoxy resin with acetone , it didn't dissolve it but made it like rubber
Oh.......so what your saying is I could have just made a display case with a glass front......well .... alrighty then.....maybee next time
Points for creativity, but it’s a shame that the resin was poured so badly.
There's a project for a long cold winter.
I am unable to unsee this!!
This is my new 2nd favorite of wild crazy stuff after the Hornless SG!!! That is the greatest.
I was thinking that there would be some air bubbles in the acrylic that it's encased in. because there are a lot of air pockets in a guitar that would have to fill up with the resin. and it would be a slow process. making it virtually impossible to not have air bubbles in the resin.
the cutaway is an 78-80 guitar
I have to believe that this is either damaged horribly or just played poorly.
yeah, the resin gets into the cavities of everything including the pots and the tuners, they would be filled with solid resin so no turning of knobs unless you fully replace.
That guitar would be a great widdling project.
It’s like Han Solo froze in Carbinite lol.
rosin is not resin (RES-IN)
For future trogly, love the content but its pronounced rez in not roz in. the latter is used for traditional string instruments on the bow for induced friction to make the sound the former is a 2 part mixture that makes what you see here. Much love and stay safe.
Resin not rosin. Rosin is for baseball
Or stringed instrument (violin/cello) bows.
Or violin bows....
Oops, that was an obvious miss on my part . I got baseball on the brain. Go Mariners!!
@@vadenk4433 The M's lost a close one to the Rays after losing to the fish. It's a bummer man!!
The only Les Paul whose neck is safe
I can see how this looked cool as a table when it was first done, clear, glass smooth resin. But now the resin has degraded so badly, I would seriously consider trying to remove it. I think it could be removed without much if any damage. It would certainly be interesting to see someone take their time to remove, with care.
I prefer the original finish . 😁
I've de-potted enough "hidden" circuit boards to be confident I could get it all good'n out and just need new pots and switch. Resin potted pickups are a thing, so no loss there.
That being said I am confident you will not do it. Blah blah.
Definitely not. Considering that's quite a bit of money, Tom Murphy would devour my soul, and I already have a left handed one in good condition.
...wasn't this the plot of one of those Ford Fairlane stories from the late 70's / early 80's?
So many comments saying it’s possible to dissolve the resin and get it out.., now I want someone to buy it just to show if it’s possible
it has a Jurassic Park aestetic to it 😂
Clear resin tends to yellow, I believe adding a little blue dye can offset that, but I'm not sure it's right for a guitar. It looks like it has delaminated at the contact with the guitar body (lucky it wasn't a submarine, ahem). Maybe that is inadequate surface cleaning/preparation, but of course that wooden body expands and contracts differently to the resin and there is a wide expanse. The cracking might have been inevitable, or exacerbated by stressing at the mounting/poor resin choice. The table is ugly. A glass-topped table cavity would have been better. I think it is valueless.
The timber in the table looks like it would make a fine looking instrument.?
I live in Mpls. Should I go try to see it in person and share a vid?
Dude poured that resin like beer on a hot day.
Cut really close to the guitar. Put loads of drill holes into the resin to weaken the material. Then… if there are any air gaps around the guitar, drill into the air gap and then force air into that gap in the hope you can crack up the resin from around the guitar…. You might need to heat up the reason before attempting to force the air into the air gap.
Band saw and a router no problems, here hold my beer !
I hereby insist it be referred to as 'The Hans Solo'
Just the Guitar Solo, surely?
@@Forest_Fifer Blasphemer!
"Long time listener, first time caller" - dried resin is like concrete...don't let the fact that it's clear fool ya. It will NEVER be be playable again, and the chances of "retrieving" it are slim to none. Oh, and it's "resin" NOT "rosin".
I was just reading about it and it said that you would cut it out and then you could use a laser with the depth set and that would get it completely out. So it would be quite a process but you could do it.
Given the bubbles in the epoxy, I doubt it penetrated the truss rod channel, the control cavities, or the pickups, so extracting it from the resin might not be _quite_ the challenge that you first thought, though still a major task though.
omg. I'm near Minneapolis/St. Paul. 2 says later, surprise surprise, it's still there on FB ;)
Hey Trogly, have you ever come across a Mojo Chessmaster guitar? John Flansburgh plays one, and I’d be very interested to see you document one on your show. I truly don’t know much about them, outside of him, playing them in the band, but he also plays Gibsons and Fenders, both of which I’m much more familiar with, especially more so nowadays due to your show. That said, I certainly think that the Mojo Chessmaster would be a unique piece for your channel, and something quite different from what I’ve seen you document in the past.
It’s so old and with the rust oxidation you could probably chunk most of it off. I’d be willing to bet once you got close it wouldn’t be attached. Some spots yes, but some light heat and solvent and you could free it in about 9 years of scraping
Yikes ' ...makes me shudder to look at it ' - needed that shot of the Frampton Custom to ease my head ' ...that, is a real Sleeping Beauty '
Nickname it Han Solo 😂
I recently had an idea to do this and make a coffee table. I would use a cheap guitar....but I dig this...I would totally try to extract that. The viscosity of resin is very thick. You'd be surprised what hasn't been touched in there. I don't have 2k to burn just to try or I might
No one would want that guitar. It's dead and buried.
just a guess, pete partied a lot
How much would it cost to get a convincing-looking Chibson and encase that in resin?
It would be better to buy one to smash than have to sit and look at it.
@@ryanfulldark2775 A fair point.
I saw that listing/monstrosity somewhere and though WTF!!!!!
I hope someone buys it to turn it around into a fun guitar recovery project.
That’s one way to fix a headstock 😂
Technically you can dissolve resin with acid - but would you want to pour acid onto this? You'd still have to dremel out the guitar before you did it - and if the acid got into the wood at all, you'd be knackered.
there's got to be an industrial solvent that would dissolve the gunk from it. Even if that meant it stripped the paint
I hear vintage Les Paul, and I think 50s 0r 1960, maybe 61 or so if it’s an SG type one.
It would be a long process to remove it from the resin, and it wouldn’t work well, if at all.
But if the pour had aged better it would be cool to display.
I am in tears bro. This should carry aJail Sentence
You can always spot a 79-80 Les Paul from a mile away by their pointy horn on the cut away. I've always thought they were ugly as sin.
I hope it was a flawed discard.
The pouring of the resin looks like it had some air get in.
If one's time equals money, it wouldn't be worth attempting to retrieve and restore.
Trog be the only one in a guitar collection prolly ever
i heard 70's Les Pauls were heavy but that's just ridiculous.
You could make a fortune in TH-cam view documenting the process of getting that Les Paul out of the resin.
My first impression from the title was "If someone buys an expensive guitar, don't they have a right to do with it what they want?" But when I saw what it was they had done, I side with the traditionalists, with "How dare you?"
Sounds like someone came up with the idea over one too many beers
Have you noticed the new guitar Jared James has been playing with a weird trapeze, 2 p-90s and no poker chip?
Are you referring to the gold top? Idk if you know the story but there was a tornado in his town and the body of that Les Paul literally ended up in his front yard. He had someone rebuild it and says he loves it.
@@zombieparrot2606 I didn’t that’s awesome, thanks for letting me know
Someone should do a Star Wars homage and make it look like Han Solo frozen in carbonite
Resin, (Epoxy) doesn’t bond that well with older finishes like poly, Nitro-cellulose or any type of oil (urethane etc.). It may be salvageable…. The cloudy areas indicate that the epoxy has delaminated and may peel off fairly easily.
if it is/was at St. Paul Guitar Repair (a rather reputable shop last I checked), I would hope that it had one or more issues that warranted this outcome. who knows :)
Is there absolutely no way to get the guitar out? I think it would be hard to do but not impossible. Probably cost way too much to get it out. But yeah, the resin likely destroyed it.
Trapped air and some serious cracks in the yellowed resin. Sad attempt at preservation. The guitar may not be pristine, but the resin should be.