Removing warts from a guitar

menamestom

Dear Fretbaord,

So the guy who played in between our sets today had an issue with his acoustic guitar, so I lent him my Strat.

When he handed it me back, he said his warts we’re killing him and showed me a load of compacted warts in the tips of his fingers, complete with string marks.  I said he should get them frozen off.  He said he did, yesterday, which was why one was bleeding, as he showed be a bloody hole in his hand where one had fell off.  For the 2nd set naturally I switched to my HPV free Telecaster.


So with regards the Strat, do I:-

1.  Give it a quick wipe down and use it again.
2.  Take off and bin the almost new strings, disinfect, put on new strings.
3.  Burn it and bury it in the garden.

I’m currenly thinking 3 might be the best option.  I’ve just got home and started eating some pop chips,  but the bumpy wart like surface is making me feel sick.  I’m not sure I can play the strat again without thinking of oozing viral fingers 

richardhomer

I’d go with burning it personally....

I recognise this is probably a massive flaw in my character - but I never let anyone else play my guitars. Your post strengthens my resolve never do so in the future....

Corvus

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midlifecrisis

richardhomer said:

I’d go with burning it personally....

I recognise this is probably a massive flaw in my character - but I never let anyone else play my guitars. Your post strengthens my resolve never do so in the future....

i also try and avoid lending my guitars, partly selfishness and also i dont know where their fingers have been, or i probablt do know where their fingers have been.

Fortheloveofguitar

Embrace the Strat as it is, warts and all 

flying_pie

Don't bury it on the garden. It may turn out to have been an ancient native American burial ground and there's nothing worse than a reanimated guitar coming to get you while you sleep 

Chris777

Could you not make it into a Jem7 BSB style guitar?

menamestom

richardhomer said:

I’d go with burning it personally....

I recognise this is probably a massive flaw in my character - but I never let anyone else play my guitars. Your post strengthens my resolve never do so in the future....

Can I borrow your Strat for a few weeks Rich while mine is in quarantine 

SunDevil

What was the issue he had with his own guitar? ..had someone wrapped it around his head for being an inconsiderate knob-head?

Cant offer specific advice, but some form of detol type of stuff that can be used on wood would be a good start, followed by oiling the board before it suffers?

menamestom

SunDevil said:

What was the issue he had with his own guitar? ..had someone wrapped it around his head for being an inconsiderate knob-head?

It was the undersaddle pickup I think, or one of the wires.  It worked in soundcheck then just died.

To be fair to the lad he had no idea they were contagious and though you could just get them from playing the guitar.  Technically, I could, now.

I’ve just rubbed it down with alcohol wipes, now going to leave it a while.  The internet tells me HPV can survive in a dildo for 24 hours,  but since it’s not a dildo, I’ll leave it a week or 2.

ICBM

menamestom said:

So with regards the Strat, do I:-

1.  Give it a quick wipe down and use it again.
2.  Take off and bin the almost new strings, disinfect, put on new strings.
3.  Burn it and bury it in the garden.

I’m currenly thinking 3 might be the best option.  I’ve just got home and started eating some pop chips,  but the bumpy wart like surface is making me feel sick.  I’m not sure I can play the strat again without thinking of oozing viral fingers   

2, definitely. Strings aren't that expensive. Or 3...

richardhomer said:

I’d go with burning it personally....

I recognise this is probably a massive flaw in my character - but I never let anyone else play my guitars. Your post strengthens my resolve never do so in the future....

Exactly this. I'm not 'precious' about it, but I just don't want someone else's filthy hands on my guitar, at least unless I know them quite well and wouldn't need to worry about something like that.

Paul_C

flying_pie

menamestom said:

I’ve just rubbed it down with alcohol wipes, now going to leave it a while.  The internet tells me HPV can survive in a dildo for 24 hours,  but since it’s not a dildo, I’ll leave it a week or 2.

Joking aside, hand warts aren't as infective as genital warts. I think alcohol wipes and waiting, then new strings and more alcohol wipes is a good idea. 

menamestom

Option 4 sell it in the classifieds!

Mods can you delete this thread 

menamestom

flying_pie said:

menamestom said:

I’ve just rubbed it down with alcohol wipes, now going to leave it a while.  The internet tells me HPV can survive in a dildo for 24 hours,  but since it’s not a dildo, I’ll leave it a week or 2.

Joking aside, hand warts aren't as infective as genital warts. I think alcohol wipes and waiting, then new strings and more alcohol wipes is a good idea. 

You don’t know he didn’t have nob warts though, and anybody with that level of hygene awareness won’t be washing their hands after a piss 

Joking aside yeah I think you are right.

Iamnobody

Just clean it up and put new strings on and you will be fine. I’m very ocd about cleaning any used guitars I buy and understand where you are coming from.

I lent my guitar to another band once following a string break and after a couple of songs he took his top off - I wasn’t impressed that it had touched man skin!

Anyway I doubt you’d get warts. In secondary school we skilfully removed the black bit out of a mate’s wart and impaled it on the end of a compass and tried to implant it into another kid’s neck. Needless to say he didn’t get a wart on his neck...

57Deluxe

Jeez - you not see what happened in Salisbury??

proggy

Strats are held together with screws, just replace the neck.

thumpingrug

Give it a spit wash, it will be fine. 

skunkwerx

I’ve been waiting for years to use this movie quote: 

• Okay so you got the semen. You got the human ejaculate that has been allowed to sink in for seven hours alright, work its way into the fabric fucking fibers. 

• Hugo, there isn't a fucking laundry detergent or cleaning product known to man that will get that clean. Some shit, suffice it to say, just don't wash out.
  

JerkMoans

flying_pie said:

Joking aside, hand warts aren't as infective as genital warts. 

Always good to hear the voice of experience  

Personally, I’d bathe the thing in bleach for a month.

Probably myself as well, for having touched it.