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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: patman on June 19, 2019, 05:46:38 AM

Title: Mildewed case
Post by: patman on June 19, 2019, 05:46:38 AM

Does anyone have a way to get a smelly old Fender tweed case to not smell so bad?

Windex got the outside looking good...Resolve got the fabric looking good, but it still stinks

For that matter, so does the guitar, but it's pretty much intact for an old guitar.

Title: Re: Mildewed case
Post by: 4stringer77 on June 19, 2019, 06:10:23 AM

https://www.jondon.com/chemicals/microban.html

Title: Re: Mildewed case
Post by: uwe on August 16, 2019, 09:48:07 AM

Leave it open for a long, long time, basically whenever you are not transporting something with it. That mildew/incense smell will eventually fade away without further ado.

Title: Re: Mildewed case
Post by: Pilgrim on August 16, 2019, 11:50:28 AM

As Uwe said, preferably exposed to direct sunlight as much as possible.

Title: Re: Mildewed case
Post by: uwe on August 16, 2019, 01:48:48 PM

I had a case where it was really pungent - it nauseously filled the room when you opened it and the bass stank of it for more than a year (and it never went back into the case, but was open air in a stand, it had the stench sucked up in its fin). But after about two years it was gone in the case too.