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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 7:45 am
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I only have two guitars, but yes I can tell them apart by smell alone. My Strat has a very particular smell of being "new" ever since I bought it. I keep it mostly in the case so it has retained the smell for a couple years now. My Tele is used and way older, but still the smell is distinctive and very different from the Strat.

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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 7:58 am
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I was just on another guitar forum where there was a post about the smells of guitar playing.

And it got me thinking--I am confident I could identify each of my guitars by smell alone.

So for those of you with two or more guitars or basses-
If you were blindfolded and not allowed to touch the instrument, if each was placed where you could smell it--could you identify each guitar correctly?


With woods, finishes, age, etc each of mine has its own smell that I notice when I play them.
Therefore I am confident I could do it.


I've got this picture of people sniffing their guitars, and having someone walk in and catching them.


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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:52 am
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Ummmm ....
Shouldn't this subject matter be posted in the mindless blather thread?
Just sayin'.
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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:55 am
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Yes, Telecaster is fairly inert, while the Guild S-70 smells like cigarettes/sweat.

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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 2:02 pm
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That's actually a pretty intersting question. I don't think I could pick out my electrics by smell alone, but I could probably identify my acoustics (they each seem to have a unique smell from the different wood types and maybe the glue).

I also once had a bass that always smelled like pine-scent Lysol (I had heavily Lysol-ed the case after buying it used to get rid of a smokey smell -- the Lysol smell never went away) -- I could've identified that one for sure!


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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:45 am
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I know my playing stinks some days and I can Identify that :oP

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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:49 pm
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oxfan wrote:

I've got this picture of people sniffing their guitars, and having someone walk in and catching them.


Shh, you'll spoil the plan... :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:55 pm
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Nope. I lost my sense of smell in a work related injury in August of 2000. This was almost a year after I retired from the Navy. I was working as a 2nd shift supervisor in a textile manufacturing plant . My office had 2,000 lb bales of material placed on top of it, which the guys would get with forklifts and bring them to the cutting machine operators. One night, a bale happened to slip off a forklift while I was coming out of the office and it hit me right on the front of my leg where it knocked me head first on a concrete floor. I ended up fracturing my skull and was comatose for several days and missed a few months of work . As a result, I lost my sense of smell and now have migraines 24/7 for which I have to take medication . I ended up suing the company and settled out of court just a few years ago where I received a very comfortable settlement. Now I just stay at home and collect my Navy pension while my wife works.


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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:29 pm
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Nope. I lost my sense of smell in a work related injury in August of 2000. This was almost a year after I retired from the Navy. I was working as a 2nd shift supervisor in a textile manufacturing plant . My office had 2,000 lb bales of material placed on top of it, which the guys would get with forklifts and bring them to the cutting machine operators. One night, a bale happened to slip off a forklift while I was coming out of the office and it hit me right on the front of my leg where it knocked me head first on a concrete floor. I ended up fracturing my skull and was comatose for several days and missed a few months of work . As a result, I lost my sense of smell and now have migraines 24/7 for which I have to take medication . I ended up suing the company and settled out of court just a few years ago where I received a very comfortable settlement. Now I just stay at home and collect my Navy pension while my wife works.


Sorry to hear that.

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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
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Aside from 3 or 4 that had spent time in musty cases before I bought them,I don't think that I could identify any by smell except for my Yamaha FG-346-SB that has spent the past 30 years in a case that has had a chocolatey smell since I bought them both new. I don't know what gave the case that smell but a really good friend of mine I used to gig with occasionally has a case like that too and says that hers had the same smell when it was new but it went away after a few years of gigging in smokey clubs-I hardly ever gigged with my Yamaha so it didn't loose the smell.

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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:07 pm
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I brought my Les Paul out to play at church today, and one of the singers actually noticed that it suddenly smelled like cookies! So before you know it, I had a half the band come over to sniff my guitar. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Could you identify your guitars by smell alone?
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:48 am
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Actually, at my current 8 mos. stage of development, I really stink !
(though I'm getting better)

So... Yes... I can tell each of my 5 guitars by smell alone !

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