Removing body odor off of my guitar

[Gabe]

Let cheap chick sleep with the guitar a couple of nights. If you are lucky it'll smell like cheap chick, must be much better.

Gabe

[Hamer95USA]

What freaks me out about this story is.. how high up was the guy playing it that he got BO on it?

Hey Cheap Chick,

What's up? This is the first time I actually owned a stinky used guitar. When I got it a couple of months ago, its previous owner never polished the guitar, changed its strings and was missing the Tele barrel style pickup selector tip. I completely polished the guitar before sending it to the local luthier for a setup and intonation job. I pulled it out of the case last week to play on it and phewwww, funky smelling guitar. I noticed the smell was coming from the pickguard, the bridge and the control plate. I'll have to open them up next week and clean everything per BCR Greg's advice. The dryer sheets in the guitar has helped the situation and the guitar is residing in its open guitar case, airing out, in my family room at the moment. I've been busy with work, rehearsals and I've got a gig this weekend. I won't be able to do work on it until next week.

Guitar George

[SirDouglas]

UGH NASTY!!!!!!.... I bought a 82 blitz bass about a year ago.. whne i got it it smelled and LOOKED like it had been in someones basement next to the water heater... damp, musty... smelled like mold.... needless to say i used the "sunlight" method as i didnt want to damage the inside of the case that was actually in better shape that the outside with chemicals..... the bass had to be torn down... replaced the rusted out pickups... bleh... my guitar room reaked for a month.... case went out the door to the sun and stayed there for a week before it was finished stinkin... lets hope your bo prob comes out.... christ cant people take a friggin bath.. and if you sweat and stink.. for christs sake have some hygene and use d e o d e r a n t BLEH..... ugh nasty ass people....

Sir Douglas

Randy

[Steve Haynie]

I was talking archtops with a well known player and mentioned a vintage guitar on a prominent dealer's web site. The well known player said he had tried that guitar and it smelled like vomit. Apparently someone threw up on the guitar and the inside still had the smell. I would hate to spend thousands to have a guitar that smells like puke.

[blackfbiv]

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?...t=2,42194,40727

see if you can find this around your parts.

I put one of the big bags in my basement and holy scnikes, it really works great.(gotta stand right over the litter box to smell it- and I have a seriously great working sniffer)

I'm guessing one of these little ones in that case (with the guitar in it) for a few days and it'll be like new...

been meaning to get a couple more to throw in the car...

Good luck...

Dion

[Craig]

I had a mandolin that smelled like mildew, and I never could get rid of the stink. It got stolen, came back worse smelling, and finally I sold it. A shame, really.