List things you've found in purchased guitar case.

[Warm Gums]

A guitar...
I bought a pretty nice hard case from a
Thrift once...it was near closing so I just
paid the modest asking priceand left, got home popped it open
found a 70s classical inside..it was pretty beat
but sold it and covered my out of pocket.

[drb1346]

I got the original case candy that came with my Hwy 1 Tele . . . .

[jazztele]

Nothing too interesting, aside from a key, which was not to the case.

[Suho]

Hangtags, receipts, tuning heads, screws, picks, tuners, cords-some very nice ones, pickups, whammy bars, straps, string cleaning substance, cloths, washers, truss rod tool, screwdriver, and bad odor!

[6stringelectric]

I've bought pretty much all my guitars used over the years, and have found some unexpected surprises in the cases at times.

Nothing that didn't pertain directly to guitar playing though.

The stuff I remember is 3 slides (one unopened in it's original package), 2 very nice leather straps, one very cheap nylon strap, one Fender single coil pickup (but the guitar itself was a humbucker-equipped SG), 1 stock tune-o-matic bridge (the guitar had a Bigsby and a roller bridge installed) and one extra pickguard (on an Epiphone Les Paul)

And of course the random picks and strings.

I've been playing and buying guitars since the late 60's so I may have forgotten some stuff - but I'm sure there was nothing else very unusual or interesting or I would remember.

[FMA]

The usual stuff, except one, an Ibanez LP copy I bought used in the '70s. Opened the compartment in the case and found a couple of picks and a pack of Zig Zag rolling papers.

[itsGreg]

Found a £20 note in one once. :-)

[Doorlord]

Fingernail clippers and fingernail clippings

[RollingBender]

Originally Posted by Doorlord

Fingernail clippers and fingernail clippings

GROSS

[Wop Geronimo]

Percocet. For real.

[octatonic]

Weed. (and I don't touch the stuff).

[fezz parka]

1/2 pint of Jack.

[stxrus]

nothing in a guitar case except strings, picks, screw driver BUT used amps are another ball of wax. more crazy (both legal & illegal) stuff than i thought would be "left" an amp.

[renhoek]

Mainly just picks, and i once found an ancient, rusted capo in the case for a 1920s banjo ukulele, but my best find by far is this, my favourite strap! It's beginning to need Grolsch washers though...

[Abu Twangy]

Let's see what I recall:

Straps, tuner, broken picks, patch cord, Dean Markley acoustic guitar pickup, girl's earing, single finger pick, dried out raisin, acoustic set list suitable for a girl singer circa 1980, dead 9v battery, fast food coupon (very much expired), and a cheap EQ pedal.

My most recent prizes came in a battered early '80s Fender P bass case that held a '83 Squier SQ Precision: Miller beer bottle cap and three decades of cigarette stank.

I like the 1980s crab motif strap that came in the acoustic guitar case.

[rsclosson]

Never found any really good stuff in a guitar case but have found some great case candy in saxophone cases over the years, including:

Various vintage mouthpieces that I have sold for a total of over $1000. (After trying them out myself and deciding they weren't for me.

A vintage ligature that I sold for $100

At least three cordier reed trimmers

Lots of vintage unused reeds

A bunch of Crown Royal bags (the sax players' favorite accessories case)

Silver polishing rags and silver preserver

etc...

[Mike Eskimo]

Ace and Bobby Lee straps.

People are beginning to figure it out how much some of them are worth though...

[zimbo]

I bought this Roland amp off Ebay and it came with a squirrels nest inside it. Complete with broken acorns and packed dirt. Some squirrel had been having a nice home inside this amp for many years.

[the embezzler]

Originally Posted by RevMike

I don't recall ever finding anything note worthy in a case before. I did used to work in a tuxedo store. Part of my job was to clean out the pockets of the rental returns and take them to the cleaners. I was allowed to keep anything I found. I found money, pocketknives, lighters, matches that was about it.

I used to work in a Men's tailors and we offered a drycleaning service. A prominent news reader (who had recently separated from his wife who, it transpired, was actually a lesbian!) dropped a suit off to us and we found a call girls business card inside one of the trouser pockets.

[Warm Gums]

Originally Posted by rsclosson

Never found any really good stuff in a guitar case but have found some great case candy in saxophone cases over the years, including:

Various vintage mouthpieces that I have sold for a total of over $1000. (After trying them out myself and deciding they weren't for me.

A vintage ligature that I sold for $100

At least three cordier reed trimmers

Lots of vintage unused reeds

A bunch of Crown Royal bags (the sax players' favorite accessories case)


Silver polishing rags and silver preserver

etc...

Ditto on trumpet stuff..I have a bunch of vintage mouthpieces and just about every mute that Humes & Berg makes, oddly enough I have never found a CR bag( jazz guys use them for mutes when playing background behind a singer)
I have a couple of mutes that are NLA new and are called for in standard grad level rep. I made beer money by renting them out...