CoryB
New Member
I bought a used 2002 Tremonti SE the other night. It's in surprisingly good shape but is well-used and the guy admitted that he just played it - he didn't ever clean it.
I got it home and spent the next three hours cleaning, shining, polishing, etc. I finally found a broken solder joint on the tone control that didn't work, but I'm upgrading the pots to CTS anyway so that's not a problem.
What I can't seem to get rid of though is the smell. It smells sort of stale - I guess from years of sweat and cigarette smoke in bars. The hard case that it came in is only a few months old and doesn't have the smell so it's not from that.
Is there any way to get rid of that smell, or at least minimize it. As I say, I've cleaned the entire outside of the guitar and even did a bit of cleaning in the control cavities but the funk remains.
As always, I appreciate any shared wisdom.
I got it home and spent the next three hours cleaning, shining, polishing, etc. I finally found a broken solder joint on the tone control that didn't work, but I'm upgrading the pots to CTS anyway so that's not a problem.
What I can't seem to get rid of though is the smell. It smells sort of stale - I guess from years of sweat and cigarette smoke in bars. The hard case that it came in is only a few months old and doesn't have the smell so it's not from that.
Is there any way to get rid of that smell, or at least minimize it. As I say, I've cleaned the entire outside of the guitar and even did a bit of cleaning in the control cavities but the funk remains.
As always, I appreciate any shared wisdom.
