what is the weirdest thing you found inside a guitar?

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Along with some sketchy wiring, this guitar had earwigs in it. I'm not posting pictures of this, but one of the first customers I ever had in my shop, left a glass butt-plug in the case pocket of the guitar. I usually vaccum out cases and leave a sticker and business card in the case when I'm done with the repair. I opened that pocket up and was suprised at what I saw!
 

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Not a guitar but I had a Marshall microstack Id purchased used from a shop I used to go to back in VA. Hidden in one of the speaker cabs was a rather graphic note from a young lady to her, Im guessing, boyfriend, sounds like they were having fun ;)
 
Found a mouse skeleton in an old Harmony Broadway back in the 80's, mixed in a bunch of dust bunnies and couple guitar picks.
 
I still think the absolute boatload of caulk I found as "potting" inside a used pickup is the weirdest.

I did recently find out my old used bridge Invader actually had white bobbins underneath black spray paint, that was funny. And finding out the 498T that came stock in my Explorer 26 years ago was actually a 500T was funny too. I also found the pickups in a brand new Epiphone were installed in the wrong positions and there was a short in the battery box... that was less funny.

The only place I found sex toys was doing the parking lot trash at a truck stop. There was an "adult entertainment" store next to the property. Seemed like a tough life.
 
I bought a Martin D28 vintage and immediately cleaned it up and changed the strings. When I took out one of the bridge pins there was a curled up piece of paper like a mini-scroll in there. It had all the details on the guitar. Serial number, make and model and owner's name. Not sure why but there it was.

In my first beater $100 acoustic I heard some rattling after about 2 months. Really a lot of wood shaking. I eventually found a weird looking thick piece of wood with some tape on it and took it back to the shop I bought it from. It was a little block tool they used to do repairs that had been left in there. I guess the Johnson cheapie acoustic I bought had a loose top when it arrived at the shop so they glued it back up and this was used to support it from the inside but they forgot about it and left it in there.
 
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