Many many years ago when Himself worked at a tyre factory, a bloke bought in a set of pipes with a request for a bag made of rubber. When the tartan cover was removed and the bag cut open - with the owner's permission - the smell nearly knocked out everyone in the room......years of accumulated smoke (said owner was a smoker), alcohol, mould......unfortunately the rubber bag experiment didn't work.

Then today I read this article to him and it brought all that smell back.

Makes my ukulele seem positively angelic by comparison.