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Some guy on the EvilBay is parting out what's left of his Jaguar, which apparently was eaten by termites. The auctions (here and here)
have some pretty amazing pictures of a neck that was completely hollowed out:

Suprisingly high-class tastes those termites had, I thought they just ate old houses and shit.
That's nuts though.

Check it out, it's a B width neck. All is not lost!

Mike wrote:Check it out, it's a B width neck. All is not lost!

Hush, you. A width is way too narrow.

That's my point. Everyone knows A-width necks are USELESS, we could still salvage this one, it's B-width.

It's WORTH it.

mikes right, in a way,
that neck still has enough shape to make a decent tracing from it.
if anything it would be worh having that around you konw?

paul_ wrote:Suprisingly high-class tastes those termites had, I thought they just ate old houses and shit.
That's nuts though.

wow, how many termites does it take to eat a fender jaguar out of this world?
imagine, if it was just one termite (maybe with his chick), he could live of it for i dont know, 5 years?
or was it one big party of hundreds of termites eating this vintage wood over one single night? woohoo, that should have been filmed.

downer wrote: imagine, if it was just one termite (maybe with his chick), he could live of it for i dont know, 5 years?

If he was "with his chick" he probably got pressured into one of those headless Steinberger things like the couple down the road got within 2 years tops. There's hardly any wood on those things, but Termite women is tricky-dicky.

Thats insane! Those sneaky fucking bastards!
I cant help but to visualize when the owner opened the case, and just found the skeleton of his '62 Jaguar!!

The seller has a lot of vintage bodies and parts listed as well, including a '62 Jazzy fretboard with clay dots.

Maybe he could salvage the neck by filling it with epoxy or something.

Really weird that the termites left an outer shell. Maybe termites don't like the taste of nitrocellulose.

[quote="astro"]Maybe he could salvage the neck by filling it with epoxy or something.

Do you really think it would be worth it?? I would be worrying that the damn thing would fall apart at any second.
Besides, it wouldn't be worth anything at that point. I don't even know who would buy it now, except to make a copy neck.

For some reason this neck reminds me of the broken off, Jimi Hendrix neck that the Denver Hard Rock Cafe has. Its a '66 with the strings still on it. Really a nice piece.

65fenvox wrote:

astro wrote:Maybe he could salvage the neck by filling it with epoxy or something.

Do you really think it would be worth it?? I would be worrying that the damn thing would fall apart at any second.

I wasn't being serious

Might be cool to keep as a conversation piece, the epoxy would help hold it together, and if you use clear stuff, you could see inside the neck. But totally useless as a musical instrument.

I wonder how long it took for the termites to eat an entire Jag (and the case too, according to the auction). Of course, all of this would never have happened if, instead of leaving it unattended in his basement for so long, he had still been playing the damn thing!

astro wrote:

65fenvox wrote:

astro wrote:Maybe he could salvage the neck by filling it with epoxy or something.

Do you really think it would be worth it?? I would be worrying that the damn thing would fall apart at any second.

I wasn't being serious

Might be cool to keep as a conversation piece, the epoxy would help hold it together, and if you use clear stuff, you could see inside the neck. But totally useless as a musical instrument.

I wonder how long it took for the termites to eat an entire Jag (and the case too, according to the auction). Of course, all of this would never have happened if, instead of leaving it unattended in his basement for so long, he had still been playing the damn thing!

I guess the jokes on me then. There I was thinking, "I'm hip, I'm down"!
I did a quick skip through this page on termites, and missed how quickly they consume something. But I did see that people can eat termites! They taste "nutty"! I think I'll have some with my cereal, and then I'll lick them off my girlfriends bare ass!
Fuck whipped cream!
here-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite

Mojo? It'd be awesome as an air-guitar. Like, 50% air/ 50% guitar...

65fenvox wrote:But I did see that people can eat termites! They taste "nutty"!

How do we know its not that nuts taste like termites?

What a shame. Dale's Dead-Bug Pest Control could have prevented this travesty.

This was for a JAZZMASTER btw.

Mike wrote:That's my point. Everyone knows A-width necks are USELESS, we could still salvage this one, it's B-width.

It's WORTH it.

I was about to say the same thing!

Paging Mister Les Paul, a Mister Les Paul your attention is needed on eBay.

Those were no termites.

Billy Gibbon's been at it,