Hi Thess, hope you don’t mind me high jacking your thread.
I called over Thess’ house yesterday and we tried to tackle the glue spots. We were cautious at first but by the end of an hour or more we were going hard on the spots with goof off and acetone. The results are not satisfactory. Thess did not sand before staining, so we can eliminate sanding through the veneer. There seems like a blob of glue on the lower horn, the blob was raised at the sides and sunken around the middle. The solvents removed the glue early in the process, but the spot is not taking the stain like the surrounding veneer. I have a sneaky suspicion it is a hole in the veneer but not sure how to confirm that. As for the other glue marks? No improvement. Around the f holes looks ugly (a detail can be seen in the above photos).
Thess will repeat the treatment again but I doubt this veneer will be stain worthy.
If Thess knew how this was going to stain I doubt he would of proceeded. Has he gone too far to consider a replacement? Wouldn’t hurt to see what Adam says. Anyone else got anymore advice?