Musty guitar case.

Elwood

I've got an old guitar hard case that looks like it's been in a loft for a long time.

Any suggestions on how to get rid of the musty smell?

MattFGBI

You might just have to leave it open in the fresh air for a while! I wouldn't put anything on it like that febreeze stuff as it may react with guitar finishes. 

ToneControl

Keeping it open, push it up against a radiator, or on top of your boiler

...waits for pun

or leave it in a greenhouse, open

IanSavage

Funnily enough, Musty Guitar Case is my blues pseudonym. 

Bogwhoppit

Baking soda.

Place a wide dish or tray inside the case with a layer of baking soda. Every few days change the soda.

After a while (week or so) the soda will absorb the smell, or least most of it.

Sassafras

I second the baking soda suggestion. Works very well and you don't have to do anything, you just leave it there till it's done its job.

stonevibe

Teabags are good at soaking up odours as well.

Put a few unused ones in case and leave it for a week or so. They absorb odours.

Great also in trainers.

joeyowen

Shit in it.

Seal it up.

Put it in the sun for a week

There will be no musty smell left

thermionic

I used some foaming carpet cleaner stuff. Did the job, but the 50+ year old cheap, felt-like lining dried very hard.

 

Ground coffee is also allegedly very good at absorbing odours, I should have tried that. Mmmm, coffee...

Rox

stonevibe said:

Teabags are good at soaking up odours as well.

Put a few unused ones in case and leave it for a week or so. They absorb odours.

Great also in trainers.

The added bonus is that they can then be used to make a cuppa for your mother in law.

The teabags, not the trainers.  No sense in ruining the trainers.

57Deluxe

put a sprig of lavender in there...

Neil

Second the baking soda idea.

I had the strange smell when my guitar case came out of the loft after 17 years (!).

Asked on here and did the baking soda thing miles better now.

Also put in one of those cardboard  car air freshener things.