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Post by theevan on Oct 29, 2009 19:40:40 GMT -5
Ok.
So my wife says you look good in cowboy boots. I haven't had a pair in some years, since my feet got too fat for my lovely pair of Lucchese.
They're pricey, so I gambled on a used pair on ebay. Experience tells me Dan Post & Justin fit me. I got a nice pair of black lizard Dan Post in beautiful shape for really cheap.
Thing is, they reek of cigarettes. Now how am I going to remedy that? I mean, the stink is down into the leather...
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Post by Doug on Oct 29, 2009 19:53:55 GMT -5
Hold a cigarette with your toes
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Post by TDR on Oct 29, 2009 20:02:09 GMT -5
Just go walk around in some cowpies like a real cowboy, dude.
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Post by dradtke on Oct 29, 2009 21:30:35 GMT -5
Soak em in beer.
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Post by theevan on Oct 29, 2009 22:17:10 GMT -5
I knew I could count on the collective widom of this body...
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Oct 29, 2009 23:15:21 GMT -5
Put one of those small, orange boxes of Arm & Hammer baking soda in each boot with the lid cracked open and leave them in your garage for a season.
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Post by omaha on Oct 30, 2009 0:16:49 GMT -5
I inherited an old parlor guitar from my grandmother. Both of my grandparents smoked like chimneys. That thing reeked for at least three or four years.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2009 6:33:22 GMT -5
Evan, I have a Ozone generator for taking smoke smell out of guitars and cases. I could defunkify them for you.
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Post by bamfiles on Oct 30, 2009 7:07:27 GMT -5
Marty has an ozone generator and he's not fixing the ozone depletion problem? What kind of liberals are they raising up there? Here's a man with a solution and he's keeping it to himself. I say we nationalize his ozone generator so we don't have to do cap and trade.
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Post by AlanC on Oct 30, 2009 8:20:41 GMT -5
I once played with some friends in a camper trailer. They chain smoked and I sat by the door with it cracked so I could breathe (it was winter and cold). My guitar smelled like stale ciggy butts. I set the guitar and case out in the sun for almost a day and the smell went away. BTW, I have a fairly new pair of those Lucchese that I bought 2 or 3 months ago. Usually, I buy Justin but I took a chance. I likes em.
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Post by Greg B on Oct 30, 2009 8:38:05 GMT -5
May I ask, what is "Cheap"? I wouldn't mind getting a decent pair of boots on Ebay but I have no idea what a reasonable price would be or what the decent brands are.
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Post by theevan on Oct 30, 2009 9:04:21 GMT -5
Lucchese are the absolute bomb. But they cost like it.
Dru, I suggest you go to a store and try on a bunch of brands...Justin, Dan Post, Tony Lama, Nocona, Double H etc. (those are probably the best brands) Find which ones fit your feet and in what size, then head to the 'bay. I paid $25 for mine, but most like mine were going for about $50. I couldn't see spending more for something that would get occasional wear.
I'm thinking if I pee in 'em everyday, the smell will eventually go away.
(I'm putting 'em out in the sun, Alan)
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Post by Fingerplucked on Oct 30, 2009 10:22:36 GMT -5
So my wife says you look good in cowboy boots. Sure I do, but I swear, I've never even met your wife. She must've seen me in a magazine or something.
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Post by Ann T on Oct 30, 2009 10:25:24 GMT -5
Febreze?
A good cleaning with Lexol leather cleaner and conditioning with Lexol leather conditioner would probably do them a lot of good. I've been using those products for almost 30 years--they once saved a pair of salt-soaked Tony Lamas (worn out in winter slush), and have kept lots of boots and horse tack going (getting out horse sweat and ranch dirt and softening the leather), and never hurt anything I've used them on. They might help mitigate the cigarette smoke.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Oct 30, 2009 10:30:09 GMT -5
You could just start smoking cigarettes. That'd solve the problem.
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Post by TDR on Oct 30, 2009 11:17:42 GMT -5
You could hang one of these off each boot. When people ask, just tell em you're gettin into the christmas spirit. Is there something creepy about wearing another guy's used boots? I don't like rented bowling shoes either.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Oct 30, 2009 11:32:55 GMT -5
Is there something creepy about wearing another guy's used boots? I don't like rented bowling shoes either. That's what I'm thinking.
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Post by bamfiles on Oct 30, 2009 13:54:00 GMT -5
Sort of depends if he died with his boots on, IMHO.
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Post by theevan on Oct 30, 2009 14:55:22 GMT -5
Dang, or he could have been like our late, poop-shoobie governor, Earl Long, who wore 'em when consorting with Blaze Starr.
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Post by Jawbone on Oct 30, 2009 16:45:21 GMT -5
"Is there something creepy about wearing another guy's used boots? "
How does one develope the sympathetic, compassionate consciousness of others' if one does not walk in their boots.
But to answer the question, just dump in some horse shit for a week.
Then again, perhaps you should take up smoking. Any cowboy worth his boots, smoke.
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