strange things found in guitar or guitar case?

[washboardchris]

thinking about the thread about going inside national's, has any one found anything unexpected inside or in the case of an old guitar.I think my best one (or worst) so far was someone's glass eye inside an old guitar case.Anyone else

[Wyzzy93]

Glass eye made me laugh, you don't expect something to looking back at you when you open a guitar case

[davey]

When I acquired my first Kalamazoo KG-14, in search of the authentic sound of Robert Johnson, it had a curious smell about it.

I scrounged some essential oil from my other half, Vetiver as I recall which has a fresh grassy smell, and rubbed a few lines inside the soundhole. It did the trick very nicely as the original smell was sort of acrid and a bit organic.

When my Luthier and I subsequently removed the back in order to X Brace it with the aim of flattening the soundboard, we had a chance to look properly around the inside.

Someone had been sick in it.

Looking back on it now, I should have had the vomit checked for poison, it could have belonged to Robert Johnson himself !

[eggy]

In a case containing an old regal 12 string I found a small silver guitar shaped brooch.Nothing to amuse or to turn stomach(vomit in guitar )but a pleasing suprise.
eggy

[paulnb57]

Bit of along yarn this one but here goes, many moons ago I lived in the Cambidgeshire Fens and went to a music store in Wisbech as I fancied a change of instrument, I took my Gordon Smith, Single pickup, Les Paul shaped guitar with me to get a trade in price if anything took my fancy. Anyroadup the guitar shop had a reputation for selling overpriced stock, and the owner was a bit of a know it all but I went in anyway.......while I was looking and trying various instruments, the shop owner asked what was in the case and could he look as he had never seen one, of course I replied telling him I wanted a trade in price against a nice Telecaster I was trying. So he opened the case and also found a small price tag in the case totally unrelated to the Gordon Smith, saying he didn't realise they were that dear and immediately offered an enhanced trade in based on the price tag, needless to say, the deal was done and I hot footed it out pretty darn quick. I got much more than I paid for it, but hey-hohe's  the expert. I never went back!

I have no idea where that price tag came from!.....

Cheers!

Paul

[rbe]

Okay, I worked on a 14-fret Duolian that was was purchased in Mississippi. The entire guitar was spray-painted black. Over the decal and everything. It was very well used and even had gouges and deep craters on the back of the neck from what looked like the use of a homemade, or clothespin, capo. When I openned it up, someone had carefully glued rattlesnake rattles inside the guitar. About half were no longer attached and the others were still glued sticking straight up in the body. It spooked me. This was more mojo than I was prepared to deal with. I proceeded to do my work without ever removing the rattles from the body. I carefully slipped the unattached rattles into a bag, inside the body. The bag was then taped inside so the rattles were safe and couldn't knock any of the attached rattles loose while I did my job. When my task was completed, I released the rattles back into the body, closed it up, strung it up, tested it and returned the guitar to its new owner. Hopefully, I was able to keep the mojo intact. I really didn't want to be responsible for disturbing the spirits.

[Quarterquay]

Spooky!^ Apparently this was not uncommon practice amongst Appalachian fiddle and mandolin players (don't know about resonators).There are all sorts of theories about why from mojo to improving the tone in a rattling sort of way to keeping mice and wasps out of your instrument by frightening them away.But really rbe,that must have been a little unsettling to find in there! One rattle would do that for me, but a whole bunch!!! I can well understand why you were careful putting them back and I'm not even what you'd call superstitious!