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A customer brought this Gibson songwriter deluxe in, it’s approximately 20 years old to his recollection. It needs a few things done including fret work and a bridge re glue.

At some point the guitar was lent out to a friend who dropped it then tried to fix the finish themselves. It looks like they used some kind of cleaner or something that didn’t get along with the lacquer at all. I’ll attach pictures but it’s kinda hard to get a picture of. I tried polishing it out with Novus with no luck.

My question is, is there an easy way to fix the swirls in the finish? I told him we would probably looking at sanding down to that layer of the lacquer and re spraying to get rid of it and he wasn’t super receptive. Just wanted to throw it out and see if there’s another way to fix it before I tell him that’s our only option.

Thanks!