What does your instrument case smell of?

[anonymous278347457]

I recently got a second hand Ibanez, and the case smells horrible. Like stale cigarette smoke mixed with guitar polish or something. Whereas my Yamaha clarinet case smell of the factory, which is quite a pleasant smell.

What do your instrument cases smell of?

[rushfan73]

Panties

[stedtale]

bass

[WalterBush]

Mostly linseed oil, since that's what I use on my fingerboards. It pretty much overpowers any other stench.

My Steinberger's case still smells of carpet glue, since I wouldn't try to oil its fingerboard.

In the past, smells have included smoke, lawn clippings, and dust (in high enough concentration, it has a definite smell.)

[Phalex]

Mine still has the original Ric-O-Smell. It's a good thing, really.

[GODSENT]

a buddy of mine got a brand new ken smith and a hradshell case, and for months the case smelt awful!!!! made me wanna

[pigpen02]

cat pee and febreeze

[Rakie]

Mine smelled like Fabreeze. Before that it smelled like a shoe store, "new leather" kinda smell.

[pigpen02]

I love the new bass case smell.

[tZer]

Mine smelled of stinky bars (stale beer and cigarette smoke) - fixed it by quitting the band that played stinky, stale beer serving, cigarette smoke filled bars and let my case sit for a week with a half dozen fabric-softener dryer sheets inside.

Now everytime I open my case little cartoon bluebirds and butterflies fly out while some unseen entity plays a pan flute...

Not sure which was worse...

[Johnny Crab]

2006 Gibson T-Bird: blasted nitro STILL trying to dry!

Rondo budget-savers: Gibson guitar polish
Epi-Birds:Gibson polish and case carpet glue
Orville & Orville by Gibson's: like a very nice bass and case should....

three still smell a tiny bit like mesquite smoke from the Texas cookoff shows in February...

[BassChuck]

Cigar smoke from our sax player.

[jimb213]

Many leather-bound books and rich mahogany.

[Warr Tapper]

the corpse that used to be in it, and pickles

[cash87]

Originally Posted by jimb213

Many leather-bound books and rich mahogany.

lol

[buzzbass]

Warwick Bee's wax....and weed

[SoComSurfing]

Originally Posted by tZer

Mine smelled of stinky bars (stale beer and cigarette smoke) - fixed it by quitting the band that played stinky, stale beer serving, cigarette smoke filled bars and let my case sit for a week with a half dozen fabric-softener dryer sheets inside.

Now everytime I open my case little cartoon bluebirds and butterflies fly out while some unseen entity plays a pan flute...

Not sure which was worse...

Ha! You just made me spit water on my laptop! That's the funniest thing I've seen on TB in a while.

[neptoon]

my warwicks always had really nice smelling cases...i don't know what kind of funk grew in my old rockwood curbow case, though...whoo, that stunk bad

[MAJOR METAL]

Pure Bass.

[invader3k]

I haven't noticed any really strong smells in either of my guitar cases, but my pedal board has the distinct odor of stale cigarette smoke when you open it (darn guitarist).