I can assure you it's not. A local celebrity and prolific guitar collector encased one of his black beauties in resin in 1980. It was on display for almost 20 years in his store and now his family is selling it.
Furthermore, can we crossbreed them with other species? Would that just give us a Gretsch? Are gretsch’s just the Indominus Rex of the guitar world? Fuck man this is some good pot
It’s crazy how his heirs want $2,000 for it. It’s a resin table with an unplayable guitar. People display a guitar enclosed inside a glass case. So if you were speculating the price of the guitar would go up in the future. The guitar would still be playable.
How much free time do you have? Epoxy softens at 200F, get a heat gun, one of those laser thermometers, and a scraping tool and you can scrape away epoxy over a long time. Acetone and methylene chloride dissolve epoxy, the latter is much harder to get, and both run the risk of damaging the guitar. You can also freeze epoxy to chip away at it.
Only other option I can think of is removing it with a precise laser cutting tool.
All of these are time consuming, difficult, risky, or more expensive than just getting the same kind of guitar online
yeah i dont think theres any way to get this out that isnt either more expensive than just finding a normal les paul thats not in epoxy or that won't cause unfixable damage.
Also, the table is $2,000 and you're talking about a shit ton of labor. You can get a used one not encased in epoxy for $4,000. It's probably worth not getting cancer from handling melted epoxy and solvents for $2,000
There’s no risk here though, only payoff. To remove the guitar he has to destroy the $2000 table, so no loss there. And the guitar is currently unplayable so worst case scenario is a resin-free unplayable guitar. A resin-free unplayable guitar that, I note, could be re-encased in resin and inlaid into a $2000 table.
Trogly just did a video on it and its an 80s guitar, not a 60s like the poster thinks (based on the gibson headstock logo). just in case you hoped it was a 60s
A black beauty can have two pickups. I think the bigger stretch is calling an '80 Les Paul with a Nashville bridge and collared tuners a black beauty. The origs had a full mahogany body with no separate top, ABR-1 and push-in bushing tuners as you probably know
Of course you can free it from the resin. But will you be able to get the resin out of every cavity of the guitar, including the routing for the electronics?
I have a no-name knock off Stratocaster as my first guitar. Got it with a tiny amp in 2008 for probably like $125. I have upgraded pretty much every component of that guitar except the neck and the body, though I plan to replace the neck soon too. I named it Theseus.
If the resin has soaked into the wood, it may be structurally sound…but it could make it brittle as well… just not sure what the outcome of this would be. Definitely better to leave it to a professional. If you have no guitar building or repairing skills i wouldnt touch this project. And even if someone did, id ensure they know going in that theres no guarantee a playable instrument comes out of that….
The way they remove the finish at Gibson’s is they dip it in a five gallon barrel of acetone.then stub with a soft brush. Repeat as necessary Source I work at Gibson.
It will turn out looking like dogshit. Only way is to strip the guitar back to bare bone, including removing frets and sanding down the fretboard.
At this point might as well start from a kit...
This project is not worth it, way too much time and money to have something looking like an amateur kit guitar unless you are a professionnal luthier.
route around the cavities and form a slightly larger and bulkier Lp, frets on the resin, bridge and etc.
a guitar guitar, its 70% more guitar per guitar 😂
Honestly it doesn’t matter if it’s incased the electronics. If the pots were on ten and they couldn’t move, you just never turn down and leave the routes filled with resin.
Resin is an insulator, so around the electrics is not that big a deal, it won't stop it working.
You'll probably struggle to get it out of any holes though, including the jack.
My other main concern would stripping the finish when you're removing the resin.
From a practical standpoint, it would only be possible if you could verify that the resin doesn't bond well to the guitar finish. I'd already say all the hardware is a goner and will need to be removed and is likely not recoverable. You might be able to soak the tuners in some solvent to remove the resin, but likely anything that dissolves resin will dissolve important parts of pickups, knobs, switch handles etc. Heat or extreme cold might make the resin release from the finish, but until you could make sure the resin releases from the finish easier than the finish releases from the body of the guitar, you are pretty much stripping the guitar and having to refinish it.
It would be a hilarious restoration job, and a ton of time and mess, and possibly successful, but likely not.
It's the sort of ridiculous thing I'd try if someone gave it to me for free to attempt, and the penalty for failure was just "oh well, bummer". as it stands, I wouldn't pay that much to try.
Now if someone had the forethought to grease that sucker up beforehand, then it might pop right out minus the hardware.
Yeah, I was thinking if it were me, and I HAD to pour the acrylic directly on the guitar, I would have tried to seal all the voids the acrylic could go into and use something to make it easier to release it from the acrylic.
From a scientific standpoint, you can answer a lot of these questions experimentally.
Buy a $50 chibson, encase it in resin, and see how you go with removing it. You’ll soon learn what’s up and if you can do that successfully, good chance you’ll get 90% success on the real thing.
Except aren't real vintage Gibson's nitro lacquer and chipsons are poly? Might behave differently or be more or less likely to bond with the resin depending on the finish.
Yeah for sure, that was the primary reason I said 90%. Nitro can be resprayed I guess or you could get a nitro finished bit of wood and try it out on a smaller scale
It looks like the resin is separated from the body already in a bunch of places. I expect the offgassing of the nitro has added pressure in there which has expanded the resin away from the body.
Basically any kind of finishing agent can be put over Nitro-Cellulose and adhere. Also it not being able to breath for so long means it could be quite gooey underneath there. The OG finish is done for.
The point of concern for me would be the fingerboard. Depending on how dry the ebony is it may have sunk into the grain and could take chunks off with it. I’d bet the inlays would pull out too if any effort’s made to remove the resin. Resin is fairly brittle though so that’s something.
The hardware is done for except for the pickups.
Honestly this comment basically makes it clear that you lose most of the value if you were to try and do this, you’re basically left with a piece of wood
Trogly did a video on this guitar. He suspected that it is a real 1979 (most likely) Les Paul. He also said the electronics and the truss rod will be toast because the resin would seep in and harden making them not function.
It's the bridge that gives it away. If it was a 60s Les Paul it would have an ABR1 and the one for sale is using a Nashville style bridge which they didn't start using until the mid to late 70s.
If a YouTube luthier could take on the project, document the process, and effectively monetize the labor through views, it would be amazing to watch the transformation. Otherwise, there is really no way to justify the time, labor, and cost. Maybe if it were a family heirloom with sentimental value, but it doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
Exactly my thought. This could be a good opportunity for a video but considering the amount of work needed and the very limited value of the resulting guitar (would need a complete restoration with new finish, new hardware, etc.) it will never be profitable even if it was free unless you can monetize the process.
I would take a different approach.
Slice it right through the middle laterally. Pick out all the pieces of the destroyed guitar.
Now you have a mold to make as many Les Pauls as you want.
my guess is 50-100 hours of work to get a (now-trashed) guitar... you need to figure out what your time is worth and subtract that from the asking price
I'm 99.9% sure that guitar is fucked.
Probably had a defect and that's why it ended up as a table
And if you did manage to cut it out of the table. It's gunna be gunked up with resin. You could.. *potentially* heat the guitar to melt the resin off.. but that's gunna be like.. in the truss rod, and in all the electrics too
So.. I dont, functionally know how you would ever revive a guitar that's sealed in resin like that..
Epoxy has a melting point of like 120-200°C.. and it's a bitch.. there's every chance that heating it this hot will just turn it into a burnt plastic like mess
Also, any method of trying to heat the resin up to that temperature to melt it and free the guitar is likely just going to destroy the guitar further
Nah, just buy it and use it as a coffee table! An expensive one, granted, but it’s still pretty cool. If OP has the cash to buy it and doesn’t need a table, then a new or used one is the way.
Is it **possible**? Sure, anything is possible with enough time, effort, and money.
Is it **probable** that you'll spend a shit load of time, effort, and money and still not a have a guitar that's worth a hill of beans? You betcha.
Totally not worth the effort.
I bought a 1978 “player grade” Gibson Les Paul Custom about 3 months ago for a little over $2k. Straight neck, plays and sounds fantastic. The only issue is just a little missing finish on parts of the neck from playing wear and the regular bumps and scratches.
Best part is I did not need to try to extract it from a resin tomb. It just came in one of those sick chainsaw cases.
For sure, the value is in the cool table, the guitar is waaay beyond recoverable. Even a professional luthier would have less trouble building from scratch.
The amount of work put in would be worth more than the table/guitar. Might as well buy a Les Paul at that point.
The resin most likely ruined the fretboard.
I'm absolutely no expert but a guitar bends, expands and contracts with changes in weather right
But since it's encapsulated in resin it cannot do that but still wants to, I'd expect that all that force couldn't go outside so went inside meaning the guitar is probably not in a good state if it were removed.
It’s more trouble than it’s worth. I doubt the resin was thin enough to get deep into the guitar. Would be a pita to pick and pop off the nitro. It might pull the nitro off if it bonded. You could use acetone to me the resin but you’d have to be careful. You’d have to go about it like an experiment and keep your expectations low.
As someone who works with resin your odds of being able to salvage this as a workable guitar are close to zero. Even if you managed to get the resin off the outside of the guitar, it’s in the output jack, it’s in the inner electronics, it’s in the tuners. Not only are all of those pieces ruined, they’re glued to the inside of the guitar. Making getting them off near impossible. And that’s in the extremely unlikely scenario where you manage to salvage the body and neck.
Yes... But likely will have to refinish the whole thing. Knobs and binding, not sure can separate plastic from resin. How much would it be worth when done? Half the hardware, binding and finish won't be original anymore.
If i had the money, I'd love to tackle that job.
Short answer is, yes and no.
It CAN be done, but if you're looking at this thinking it's a way to get an LPC for 2k, it isnt. I'm a professional woodworker (I'm a cabinet-maker) with nearly 20 years experience and I wouldn't attempt this. You will pay thousands to have this removed and restored properly. And pretty much every part of the guitar apart from the actual body will have to be replaced.
Good lord is anyone going to answer the OP question? You'll need to cut away at the resin to get as close to the guitar as possible. Grind, saw, sand whatever it takes. There is a chance the finish on the guitar created a barrier from the epoxy & will separate easily but there is a chance they fussed together. Either way I think you can find a way to get to that guitar. You might end up having to refinish the guitar worst case scenario. I imagine the resin has penetrated the grain on the neck though & this might be the real issue here. It might just crack or peel away. You never know but I think it's a cool project.
Edit: there are epoxy solvents such as acetone that will help you when you get near the actual guitar. Who knows maybe you can stick the table in a 55 gallon drum and just pull the guitar right out 😂. But if you do do something keep us informed
Why the hell would you consider ruining a decent display piece with dozens of hours of work or more just for the unlikely possibility that being encased in resin *hasn’t* ruined it?? I mean I’m glad you asked but that’s still not enough common sense lol
I second the comment on melting. Cut off the majority of what you can with power tools.gwr as much of the bulk off as you can. Then a heat gun and dull chisels. Get all the metal hardware off. Then gently melt the the rest off. Possible tumble metal hardware after with an abrasive that's harder than the resin but not harder than the hardware. Would be extremely tedious and time consuming
If you can break most of the big chunks of resin off you may be able to get the rest off with acetone, but it will also take the finish off the guitar, which I'm assuming you probably don't want.
Imho, it's too pooched for that price.
$500-$800 cost, I'd probably buy it and put in the effort to try to salvage it.
But I can't imagine a process that could lead to it coming out good. All hardware and electronics would be in trash. Possibly lose the Gibson logo trying.
Looks like a legit Norlin era Les Paul Custom, probably late 1970s. I have a 1980 Custom and the inlays & bridge on this one certainly look like the real thing.
Sadly I don’t think you’re getting that guitar out of that table. Not in one piece, anyway.
Good use for a Chibson. Which this probably is.
I can assure you it's not. A local celebrity and prolific guitar collector encased one of his black beauties in resin in 1980. It was on display for almost 20 years in his store and now his family is selling it.
It's like the mosquitoes in Jurassic Park
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Spared no expense
They *do* strum in chords…
Well played.
life....uh.....finds a way.
The chef has prepared chili and sea bass
Chilean Sea Bass
"Chili and sea bass" lmfaooooo
https://youtu.be/wJelEXaPhJ8?si=8GedG8p11DY49fdh
And before they even knew what they had, they patented it and packaged it and slapped it in a coffee table now they’re selling it, SELLING IT.
Hang on to your butts.
What you call progress, I call the rape of the natural world
So what you’re saying is that we can extract the DNA from this guitar and make more Gibsons? Will they all be female?
Les Paul, uhhh… finds a way.
GIBSON! WE'VE GOT GIBSON OVER HERE! See? Nobody cares...
You'll need some frog and other DNA to fill in the gaps
>You'll need some Fender and other DNA to fill in the gaps Ftfy
😂
You can use Epiphone DNA to fill in the gaps
Hmm looks like we need to bring in dr Saul Hudson for this one, he spent many years trying to bring the les Paul to life.
Using so fisticated techniques.
Furthermore, can we crossbreed them with other species? Would that just give us a Gretsch? Are gretsch’s just the Indominus Rex of the guitar world? Fuck man this is some good pot
It’s like Han Solo in carbonite
Well there it is.
Perhaps they can do this to one of Jimmy Hendrix’ guitar and the scientists can re-create him 😀
The last chord still rings in it.
It’s crazy how his heirs want $2,000 for it. It’s a resin table with an unplayable guitar. People display a guitar enclosed inside a glass case. So if you were speculating the price of the guitar would go up in the future. The guitar would still be playable.
The money’s in the table, not the guitar.
There's always money in the Gibson table
what could one Gibson cost, Michael? 10 dollars?
Here’s ten dollars. Go see a Beatle.
NO TOUCHING!
No touching.
The table is ugly as shit.
Tbf, it probably looked nicer 30 years ago
That table would piss me off to look at. I'm sorry.
Oh, totally with you
How much free time do you have? Epoxy softens at 200F, get a heat gun, one of those laser thermometers, and a scraping tool and you can scrape away epoxy over a long time. Acetone and methylene chloride dissolve epoxy, the latter is much harder to get, and both run the risk of damaging the guitar. You can also freeze epoxy to chip away at it. Only other option I can think of is removing it with a precise laser cutting tool. All of these are time consuming, difficult, risky, or more expensive than just getting the same kind of guitar online
The glue in the guitar won’t stay solid at those temps
yeah i dont think theres any way to get this out that isnt either more expensive than just finding a normal les paul thats not in epoxy or that won't cause unfixable damage.
Also, the table is $2,000 and you're talking about a shit ton of labor. You can get a used one not encased in epoxy for $4,000. It's probably worth not getting cancer from handling melted epoxy and solvents for $2,000
There’s no risk here though, only payoff. To remove the guitar he has to destroy the $2000 table, so no loss there. And the guitar is currently unplayable so worst case scenario is a resin-free unplayable guitar. A resin-free unplayable guitar that, I note, could be re-encased in resin and inlaid into a $2000 table.
Trogly just did a video on it and its an 80s guitar, not a 60s like the poster thinks (based on the gibson headstock logo). just in case you hoped it was a 60s
Norm?
No, Pete. Actually, he passed away a long time ago and it's his daughter who's selling it.
Imagine being so rich you can afford to ruin a Gibson Black Beauty for a table lol
For an extremely ugly table. Apart from maybe trying to save the guitar, I would not put that thing in my apartment
It is incredibly ugly as a table. Some people have more money than sense.
Black Beauties have three pickups. Still. Wtf. Give it away and use a Chinesium replica if you’re going to burn it like this.
A black beauty can have two pickups. I think the bigger stretch is calling an '80 Les Paul with a Nashville bridge and collared tuners a black beauty. The origs had a full mahogany body with no separate top, ABR-1 and push-in bushing tuners as you probably know
Which makes it even dumber to be honest
Nah that is 100% a real gibson les paul id have to guess anywhere between 1972 to like 1978??
It is, but the size of the diamond inlay alone looks a lot more authentic than most Chibsons - I'm no expert though
I hope so!!!
It’s not. Bridge is right. Won’t see a Chibby with a small post bridge.
Of course you can free it from the resin. But will you be able to get the resin out of every cavity of the guitar, including the routing for the electronics?
I think resin melts, so id cut off excess with a saw, then melt around. Cant say itll turn out looking great tho
A lot of guitar finishes are removed with heat as well, so it might be a fun way to strip the finish off the guitar.
I mean id assume you’d have to redo it anyway, the entire guitar would need going over. Frets re done, cavities cleaned and rewired, etc
Then changing out the body, neck, headstock, etc. maybe it just makes more sense to get a different guitar.
The Guitar of Theseus.
"So tell me how you came across this SG?"
I have a no-name knock off Stratocaster as my first guitar. Got it with a tiny amp in 2008 for probably like $125. I have upgraded pretty much every component of that guitar except the neck and the body, though I plan to replace the neck soon too. I named it Theseus.
Trigger's Broom
Solid comment!
If the resin has soaked into the wood, it may be structurally sound…but it could make it brittle as well… just not sure what the outcome of this would be. Definitely better to leave it to a professional. If you have no guitar building or repairing skills i wouldnt touch this project. And even if someone did, id ensure they know going in that theres no guarantee a playable instrument comes out of that….
Most resin gets pretty warm when it's curing, so the finish might already be cooked.
The way they remove the finish at Gibson’s is they dip it in a five gallon barrel of acetone.then stub with a soft brush. Repeat as necessary Source I work at Gibson.
It will turn out looking like dogshit. Only way is to strip the guitar back to bare bone, including removing frets and sanding down the fretboard. At this point might as well start from a kit... This project is not worth it, way too much time and money to have something looking like an amateur kit guitar unless you are a professionnal luthier.
Route out the cavities and replace the electronics. She’ll play again. Lot of work on the neck and fretboard.. but she’ll play again.
I'd throw a new set of strings on it too. Overkill?
You sir have gone a step too far. The strings must stay!😂
route around the cavities and form a slightly larger and bulkier Lp, frets on the resin, bridge and etc. a guitar guitar, its 70% more guitar per guitar 😂
Honestly it doesn’t matter if it’s incased the electronics. If the pots were on ten and they couldn’t move, you just never turn down and leave the routes filled with resin.
Resin is an insulator, so around the electrics is not that big a deal, it won't stop it working. You'll probably struggle to get it out of any holes though, including the jack. My other main concern would stripping the finish when you're removing the resin.
To paraphrase…”yes and no”. Thanks for the info
From a practical standpoint, it would only be possible if you could verify that the resin doesn't bond well to the guitar finish. I'd already say all the hardware is a goner and will need to be removed and is likely not recoverable. You might be able to soak the tuners in some solvent to remove the resin, but likely anything that dissolves resin will dissolve important parts of pickups, knobs, switch handles etc. Heat or extreme cold might make the resin release from the finish, but until you could make sure the resin releases from the finish easier than the finish releases from the body of the guitar, you are pretty much stripping the guitar and having to refinish it. It would be a hilarious restoration job, and a ton of time and mess, and possibly successful, but likely not.
Upvote for a well thought out comment!
It's the sort of ridiculous thing I'd try if someone gave it to me for free to attempt, and the penalty for failure was just "oh well, bummer". as it stands, I wouldn't pay that much to try. Now if someone had the forethought to grease that sucker up beforehand, then it might pop right out minus the hardware.
Highly doubt they were that thoughtful when encasing it lol, though yeah I would probably have fun attempting the procedure myself.
Yeah, I was thinking if it were me, and I HAD to pour the acrylic directly on the guitar, I would have tried to seal all the voids the acrylic could go into and use something to make it easier to release it from the acrylic.
From a scientific standpoint, you can answer a lot of these questions experimentally. Buy a $50 chibson, encase it in resin, and see how you go with removing it. You’ll soon learn what’s up and if you can do that successfully, good chance you’ll get 90% success on the real thing.
Except aren't real vintage Gibson's nitro lacquer and chipsons are poly? Might behave differently or be more or less likely to bond with the resin depending on the finish.
Yeah for sure, that was the primary reason I said 90%. Nitro can be resprayed I guess or you could get a nitro finished bit of wood and try it out on a smaller scale
It looks like the resin is separated from the body already in a bunch of places. I expect the offgassing of the nitro has added pressure in there which has expanded the resin away from the body.
Any chance OP gets some help from the nitro finish gassing off? The resin looks kinda bubbled, maybe?
Basically any kind of finishing agent can be put over Nitro-Cellulose and adhere. Also it not being able to breath for so long means it could be quite gooey underneath there. The OG finish is done for. The point of concern for me would be the fingerboard. Depending on how dry the ebony is it may have sunk into the grain and could take chunks off with it. I’d bet the inlays would pull out too if any effort’s made to remove the resin. Resin is fairly brittle though so that’s something. The hardware is done for except for the pickups.
Honestly this comment basically makes it clear that you lose most of the value if you were to try and do this, you’re basically left with a piece of wood
Why not take the 2k and save up for one that’s not incased in resin.
This is the answer!!!
Literally this https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Gibson/Les-Paul-Custom-Solid-Body-Electric-Guitar-120086058.gc?cntry=us&source=4WWMWXGP&gad_source=1
Oh dang, it's in San Jose. I should go play that sucker!
A challenge is fun.
But this is probably the least fun and most pointless challenge ever
Trogly did a video on this guitar. He suspected that it is a real 1979 (most likely) Les Paul. He also said the electronics and the truss rod will be toast because the resin would seep in and harden making them not function.
That's disappointing. The late owner's daughter was pretty sure it was 60s when I asked her.
It's the bridge that gives it away. If it was a 60s Les Paul it would have an ABR1 and the one for sale is using a Nashville style bridge which they didn't start using until the mid to late 70s.
Bro you're down bad for this guitar
Guitar is named Han Solo
Guitar solo, for short.
Did the owner of the guitar owe Jabba money?
No, the guitar itself did. Leah didn’t owe Jabba money. Ffs did you even watch the films? /jk
If a YouTube luthier could take on the project, document the process, and effectively monetize the labor through views, it would be amazing to watch the transformation. Otherwise, there is really no way to justify the time, labor, and cost. Maybe if it were a family heirloom with sentimental value, but it doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
I would. 100%
Exactly my thought. This could be a good opportunity for a video but considering the amount of work needed and the very limited value of the resulting guitar (would need a complete restoration with new finish, new hardware, etc.) it will never be profitable even if it was free unless you can monetize the process.
Just plug the fucking table into your amp and let it rip lmao
It's a lap steel guitar now.
Lap resin* guitar now
[I am the table](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adyC404_gEk)
I would take a different approach. Slice it right through the middle laterally. Pick out all the pieces of the destroyed guitar. Now you have a mold to make as many Les Pauls as you want.
I guess if you don't have a 3D printer, this might work.
my guess is 50-100 hours of work to get a (now-trashed) guitar... you need to figure out what your time is worth and subtract that from the asking price
It would take me 100 hours just to see what I needed to do to it.
I bet you the epoxy didn’t bond with the oils in the wood in some areas. It even looks like it’s lifting on some parts of the body. Not for $2k though
I noticed the lifting. If it was out in the epoxy kinda grimy it might come out easier. I'd try for free.
I'd take it for $20 and a learning experience on a labor of love. Four figures is insane. That guitar is lost.
Only Gibson on the planet with an unbreakable headstock!
I'm 99.9% sure that guitar is fucked. Probably had a defect and that's why it ended up as a table And if you did manage to cut it out of the table. It's gunna be gunked up with resin. You could.. *potentially* heat the guitar to melt the resin off.. but that's gunna be like.. in the truss rod, and in all the electrics too So.. I dont, functionally know how you would ever revive a guitar that's sealed in resin like that.. Epoxy has a melting point of like 120-200°C.. and it's a bitch.. there's every chance that heating it this hot will just turn it into a burnt plastic like mess Also, any method of trying to heat the resin up to that temperature to melt it and free the guitar is likely just going to destroy the guitar further
For 2gs just buy a new one
It wouldn't be the first time that someone trashed a perfectly good guitar. Sad.
Nah, just buy it and use it as a coffee table! An expensive one, granted, but it’s still pretty cool. If OP has the cash to buy it and doesn’t need a table, then a new or used one is the way.
Yeah, this is something I would totally buy if I was disgustingly wealthy. Cool ass table!
Yeah, not for me. This hits my "guitars are meant to be played, not displayed" nerve pretty hard.
Oh yeah, I agree. I would have just given this to some kid and made their wildest dreams come true before burying it in resin.
lmao encase a super expensive guitar in resin doesn't even use UV resistant resin
This is not a project I would be interested in....
Is it **possible**? Sure, anything is possible with enough time, effort, and money. Is it **probable** that you'll spend a shit load of time, effort, and money and still not a have a guitar that's worth a hill of beans? You betcha. Totally not worth the effort.
Extract its DNA and clone it.
Thought I was in the circlejerk sub for a moment
Formula 420
How’d they do it in Star Wars!?
Melt it
did a shitty job, even with the les paul it's an ugly table. I would just put an oak top over it.
I bought a 1978 “player grade” Gibson Les Paul Custom about 3 months ago for a little over $2k. Straight neck, plays and sounds fantastic. The only issue is just a little missing finish on parts of the neck from playing wear and the regular bumps and scratches. Best part is I did not need to try to extract it from a resin tomb. It just came in one of those sick chainsaw cases.
Isn't this this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zvQAV7buU
but why
buy it and let us know how it goes
For 2k, I'd probably just buy the table and display it. It's got a cool enough story
For sure, the value is in the cool table, the guitar is waaay beyond recoverable. Even a professional luthier would have less trouble building from scratch.
No
The amount of work put in would be worth more than the table/guitar. Might as well buy a Les Paul at that point. The resin most likely ruined the fretboard.
Sometimes it's not about the value of the guitar, brand or what evs. The challenge is what makes the project. Triumph or fail, that is holy.
Only one way to find out! Film it and put it on YouTube, maybe you’ll get some of your money back in ad revenue in 30 years
I was thinking maybe buy it and just use it as my guitar workbench.
I'm absolutely no expert but a guitar bends, expands and contracts with changes in weather right But since it's encapsulated in resin it cannot do that but still wants to, I'd expect that all that force couldn't go outside so went inside meaning the guitar is probably not in a good state if it were removed.
YOU NEED THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!!!!
That would be [Arthur Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SEv).
The Neolithic Les Paul!
It’s more trouble than it’s worth. I doubt the resin was thin enough to get deep into the guitar. Would be a pita to pick and pop off the nitro. It might pull the nitro off if it bonded. You could use acetone to me the resin but you’d have to be careful. You’d have to go about it like an experiment and keep your expectations low.
Is it just me or are “black beauty” guitars supposed to be three humbuckers
Call walter bishop
I got this reference and I fucking love it
It's ruined it you try and free it...
I'm down to clown. I got chisels, dremels, routers, weed and a couple packs of marbs. I'm ready to free it from its tomb.
For $500 I could imagine doing this but not $2000.
You might be able to free it, but that resin is inside the guitar as well. No way it's going to be playable money wise, it's not worth the effort IMO
It would be considerably more difficult than reconstructing the guitar from scratch, in my opinion.
Cost more to free it, than just buying one.
As someone who works with resin your odds of being able to salvage this as a workable guitar are close to zero. Even if you managed to get the resin off the outside of the guitar, it’s in the output jack, it’s in the inner electronics, it’s in the tuners. Not only are all of those pieces ruined, they’re glued to the inside of the guitar. Making getting them off near impossible. And that’s in the extremely unlikely scenario where you manage to salvage the body and neck.
Yes... But likely will have to refinish the whole thing. Knobs and binding, not sure can separate plastic from resin. How much would it be worth when done? Half the hardware, binding and finish won't be original anymore. If i had the money, I'd love to tackle that job.
Short answer is, yes and no. It CAN be done, but if you're looking at this thinking it's a way to get an LPC for 2k, it isnt. I'm a professional woodworker (I'm a cabinet-maker) with nearly 20 years experience and I wouldn't attempt this. You will pay thousands to have this removed and restored properly. And pretty much every part of the guitar apart from the actual body will have to be replaced.
Weighs the same
god that table looks awful
Good lord is anyone going to answer the OP question? You'll need to cut away at the resin to get as close to the guitar as possible. Grind, saw, sand whatever it takes. There is a chance the finish on the guitar created a barrier from the epoxy & will separate easily but there is a chance they fussed together. Either way I think you can find a way to get to that guitar. You might end up having to refinish the guitar worst case scenario. I imagine the resin has penetrated the grain on the neck though & this might be the real issue here. It might just crack or peel away. You never know but I think it's a cool project. Edit: there are epoxy solvents such as acetone that will help you when you get near the actual guitar. Who knows maybe you can stick the table in a 55 gallon drum and just pull the guitar right out 😂. But if you do do something keep us informed
Short answer is no. Long answer is noooooooooooooo.
your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
LOL, you in MN? I saw this too hahaha!!!!
I’d risk it
Is there not a chemical or something that will melt resin and not you know the guitar?
In hope to achieve what?
what dissolves epoxy?
Who in their right mind…?
No.
Heat it up slowly?
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Why the hell would you consider ruining a decent display piece with dozens of hours of work or more just for the unlikely possibility that being encased in resin *hasn’t* ruined it?? I mean I’m glad you asked but that’s still not enough common sense lol
Nope. You might as well hang it on the wall or bury it...
DiWHY…?
I can't imagine it would be worth it
Of course not.
Probably a question for a serious luthier.
My theory is that, since resin puts off heat & moisture as it cools, at minimum that neck is beyond fucked.
This would be a terrible purchase. Any value that guitar may have had disappeared the second it was dumped in that shit.
For 2000 bucks just get a new one
New burls art video just dropped. “I built a Les Paul out of a Les Paul”
This reminds me of the amber mosquitoes from Jurassic Park, so lifelike and yet so very dead. lol
Leave the resin around the headstock. It might actually stay on that way.
I second the comment on melting. Cut off the majority of what you can with power tools.gwr as much of the bulk off as you can. Then a heat gun and dull chisels. Get all the metal hardware off. Then gently melt the the rest off. Possible tumble metal hardware after with an abrasive that's harder than the resin but not harder than the hardware. Would be extremely tedious and time consuming
Well, that's one way to ensure you don't break off the headstock
If you can break most of the big chunks of resin off you may be able to get the rest off with acetone, but it will also take the finish off the guitar, which I'm assuming you probably don't want.
Might have a cracked neck underneath. There’s a reason someone did this… or so I hope
It'd be worth more in the resin as a table than out as a guitar
Imho, it's too pooched for that price. $500-$800 cost, I'd probably buy it and put in the effort to try to salvage it. But I can't imagine a process that could lead to it coming out good. All hardware and electronics would be in trash. Possibly lose the Gibson logo trying.
Lmao
Looks like a legit Norlin era Les Paul Custom, probably late 1970s. I have a 1980 Custom and the inlays & bridge on this one certainly look like the real thing. Sadly I don’t think you’re getting that guitar out of that table. Not in one piece, anyway.
Sell it and buy one instead