YodaGuitar

Thanks Bizman. It's definently not wax but I tried brushing it off anyway with no change. Its funny what you don't notice or ignore. I never saw the laquer on the neck. I am not sure how I will get that off. I will try the linseed oil mix this weekend. It's a shame the state of this guitar. I bought it at flea market for $30 8-10 years ago. It's too far gone to properly restore but I'm just fond of it. Over 50 years old with a bad finish but stays in tune and sounds good. (kinda like me).

I have seen a lot of posts on white spots etc but they are all from recent refinishing. I have a 1965 Guild Mark III that I have owned for a few years. It's in rough shape but I love it. It was poorly refinished but I prefer to not mess with her too much if I can. White spots started showing up in the past 2 years and eem to be getting worse. Is there a remedy besides refinishing? They are mostly on the side, but now appearing on the fretboard.

Exactly. I was thinking just a little bigger like outlined here and then reroute the opening, but I get your point and that might be more than neccessary. Absolute genius idea on the post from below. That shouln't be too hard and it is definitely accessbile fro underneath. Thank you for the input.

I do most of my work on acoustics so I have the skills and tools to fix my sons electric guitar, the question is how? His metal bracket idea worked for a year or so but there is so much damage I think a sturdy wood replacement block a few inches larger than the damage should do it. (kinda like a wood shim appraoach under a damaged bridge on an acoustic) This thing is made I believe of basswood but it feels like balsawood. It's crap, but it's light and he likes it so I don't want to reenforce it too much and add too much weight. The real question is repair it horizontally or vertically across the posts, or some other way? Either way there is a fair amount of routing and touch up involved. I am open to ideas or guidance if anyone has fixed one before as this looks like a pretty common problem but I have only seen people talk about glueing and fixing the hole and that isn't going to work on this damage. A few photos of the patient.