NGD: Gibson J150 and smelly case...

Kylef

Received this last week. I have a sunburst J150 which I love, so when this natural one came up for sale I thought why not have a backup (that was how I justified it anyway). 

The J150 is basically a J200 without neck binding, and I’ve always loved the more simplicity look of it over the J200. 

Had it sitting in the room where I store my gear, went in the next day and was overcome with the smell of stale smoke :-/ Gave the outside of the case a smell and there it is :-( 

Thankfully the guitar doesn’t carry it, nor the inside of the case, but still offputting. Will probably have to stick the case in the shed. I can’t imsgine any product is going to shift it. 

Now I’ve nothing against smokers, but it got me thinking that I must have been pretty lucky over the years with user gear that this is my first experience of it. 

Anyhow, a couple of pics. Some lovely flaming of the wood on the back. 

https://i.imgur.com/KqiTp8O.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xd6Xzkz.jpg

Kittyfrisk

Lovely looking guitar.
There was a thread last year about the smoke stink issue  https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/162732/
Hope you find something that works 

AlexO

Love that!
Looking for one of these myself. Don't come up very often.

MartinBush

Superb looking guitar!

Hopefully it overshadows the horrid case smell.

Theres some suggestions here you could investigate - some more suitable for your problem than others I expect. Some quite benign sounding things seem to have some success. Or just stay away from the case! I expect its tar that holds the smell.

Happy playing...

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=158087

Nitefly

Ooh, tidy!

Sassafras

Love those SJs.
Try an open jar of bicarb in the case, that's supposed to absorb nasty smells.

tony99

oooh love those inlays

SimpleSimon

Stunning - have a wow! 

hollywoodrox

You could try giving the outside a wash with sugar soap , it might have collected a layer of nicotine that needs removing . You could then try washing it with something smelly like zoflora disinfectant that has a nice strong smell (in different flavour aromas) we are using it to disinfect communal handrails etc in the building and the smell lasts all day and is quite pleasant.

also after the sugar soap it might not hurt to leave outside in the UV .

at least stale smoke is better than mould  which can spread to other stuff , once you can get rid of the smoke you don’t have to worry about it spreading