Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
The case I received for the Viking smelled like someone tried to deodorize it, common folk wisdom in our chemical romance society are things like "Sunlight or Febreeze just to start", holy mother of toxic fragrances... "and if that doesn't work, try baking soda" like duh... Maybe try baking soda first?
Anyway, nice case, but that smell. Can you smell that smell?
It's been outside for about a week now. I fuss over it and try to make sure mice don't get in it, but in the mornings I put it out in the sun, in place close to the house where the birds won't perch and poop, these are not many...
So it's getting a little bit better each day and I blow it out gently and thoroughly several times of day with the DeWalt blower, in all the nooks and crannies.
The "Sunlight", the real sunlight is working. And the wind. It's a lot windier than it used to be and that helps too, if there's a silver lining in the wind drying everything out as we go into our hot drought upcoming fire season they're warning us about.
The case is becoming smell neutral, like the rest of our things. We don't use scented laundry soap or dryer sheets - major double ick of toxic smell - that are also recommended as a solution to musty cases. "put in a dryer sheet and close the case for two weeks".
Someone obviously treated this wonderful original case because maybe it had a bit of damp mold, black in color visible in the yellow lining in the headstock area. For whatever reason, the inside smelled like the laundry isle at the store, and then I realized why the guy who told me that it smelled like nothing suggested I have Hyperosmia "I would never sell some thing to someone with said condition" said he...
Because if you're using scented laundry soaps and dryer sheets in your home, you can't tell what neutral smells like. Neutral would smell like dryer sheets. The new normal, where you can't stand the smell of "unscented" things.
Hell I'd never even heard of Hyperosmia but I've never been able to be on a elevator with one or more people who reek like the assorted fragrances we wear "old lady perfumes", etc.
Anyway, the Sunlight © is doing it, the real sunlight, even the black color in the headstock area is disappearing, amazing.
You can't improve on mother nature.
Now hopefully I can recoup the cost of this case by selling the nice vintage Gibson 335 case - smell-less - that the guitar was in. The seller, a Hagstrom expert you would think, "selling one a week" and sitting of a pile of them he claims, said in in real brief ad "not sure if the case is original" even this it has a real nice Gibson logo on it. Sturdier case than the original but heavier - a whopping 7 latches - , and this guitar is a feather at 6lb 5oz, and the original case only 6lb 9oz, for a combined weight of 12lb, 14oz guitar in case, hell there's 70's Swede's and Les Pauls that weigh more than this, guitar alone.
The Viking awaiting it's coffin.
Burly neck!
Anyway, nice case, but that smell. Can you smell that smell?
It's been outside for about a week now. I fuss over it and try to make sure mice don't get in it, but in the mornings I put it out in the sun, in place close to the house where the birds won't perch and poop, these are not many...
So it's getting a little bit better each day and I blow it out gently and thoroughly several times of day with the DeWalt blower, in all the nooks and crannies.
The "Sunlight", the real sunlight is working. And the wind. It's a lot windier than it used to be and that helps too, if there's a silver lining in the wind drying everything out as we go into our hot drought upcoming fire season they're warning us about.
The case is becoming smell neutral, like the rest of our things. We don't use scented laundry soap or dryer sheets - major double ick of toxic smell - that are also recommended as a solution to musty cases. "put in a dryer sheet and close the case for two weeks".
Someone obviously treated this wonderful original case because maybe it had a bit of damp mold, black in color visible in the yellow lining in the headstock area. For whatever reason, the inside smelled like the laundry isle at the store, and then I realized why the guy who told me that it smelled like nothing suggested I have Hyperosmia "I would never sell some thing to someone with said condition" said he...
Because if you're using scented laundry soaps and dryer sheets in your home, you can't tell what neutral smells like. Neutral would smell like dryer sheets. The new normal, where you can't stand the smell of "unscented" things.
Hell I'd never even heard of Hyperosmia but I've never been able to be on a elevator with one or more people who reek like the assorted fragrances we wear "old lady perfumes", etc.
Anyway, the Sunlight © is doing it, the real sunlight, even the black color in the headstock area is disappearing, amazing.
You can't improve on mother nature.
Now hopefully I can recoup the cost of this case by selling the nice vintage Gibson 335 case - smell-less - that the guitar was in. The seller, a Hagstrom expert you would think, "selling one a week" and sitting of a pile of them he claims, said in in real brief ad "not sure if the case is original" even this it has a real nice Gibson logo on it. Sturdier case than the original but heavier - a whopping 7 latches - , and this guitar is a feather at 6lb 5oz, and the original case only 6lb 9oz, for a combined weight of 12lb, 14oz guitar in case, hell there's 70's Swede's and Les Pauls that weigh more than this, guitar alone.
The Viking awaiting it's coffin.
Burly neck!
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