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Does anyone else's guitar make them smell like garlic?

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Puns
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I don't know how this happens, but playing both my friend or I's guitar makes our fingers smell like garlic... I don't know if I was cutting garlic and then played and the smell is infused into the strings or what, but it's always that scent and it last foreverrrr on my fingers... and apparently the guitar as well.

Anyone else experience this conundrum or have theories as to where this stems from?
Nov 27 2011 3:19AM
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JakeAssBeatClap
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They're probably old strings that need to be changed and your sense of what metallic strings smell like may seem similar to garlic to you. buy new strings and wash your hands.
Nov 27 2011 3:21AM
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henrytargett
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thats what happens if you jack off and dont wash your hands.... and then play guitar.


Nov 27 2011 3:22AM
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Puns
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I don't like either of these options so far.
Nov 27 2011 3:23AM
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.AR6rider.
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I have four guitars and my hands have never smelled like garlic after playing them.
Nov 27 2011 3:25AM
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Culla
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Maybe someone thinks you're a vampire.


They're trying to prove it by putting garlic on your strings.
Nov 27 2011 3:45AM
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Ribss.
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i think youve been watching too much twilight...
Nov 27 2011 4:07AM
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.skiwi.
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I think he is right. But it hasnt happened to me.
Nov 27 2011 4:29AM
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Puns
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Maybe I am a vampire... it's really bothersome.
Nov 27 2011 4:44AM
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rareform
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are you simple or something? get new strings
Nov 27 2011 11:34AM
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JWD*
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get new strings, DR's or ernie balls will do the trick
Nov 27 2011 11:48AM
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CheddarJack
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any twilight is too much twilight
Nov 27 2011 1:43PM
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yuck
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that is very strange, never heard of that before.

definitely change the strings, and if it persists then i have no clue whats going on lol. if you are playing acoustic, get elixirs (best strings ever IMO) or ernie balls beefy slinkys for electric (my favorites)
Nov 27 2011 1:57PM
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