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06-18-2005, 12:49 AM
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If so, how to protect the bass?
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06-18-2005, 01:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area, California, USA | | | Go to the pet store and get an anteater? I think they eat termites.
Maybe there's some sort of varnish stuff you can put on the bass... |
06-18-2005, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by geoffkhan Go to the pet store and get an anteater? | LMAO!! 
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06-18-2005, 01:28 PM
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06-18-2005, 01:37 PM
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06-18-2005, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Puerto Rico... for now... | | I knew it would be a silly question... but I felt like asking just in CASE.   
Nah, some termites on the doors... made me wonder I guess... so the necks do come treated, I assume...
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06-18-2005, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Wamego KS | | | Wow I never thought about termites eating my bass before now you have me thinking. |
06-19-2005, 02:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Warrensburg, MO | | | I think if you've got termites in your house then protecting your bass collection should probably be second place to protecting YOUR HOUSE.
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06-19-2005, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Detroit area, Troy, MI | | Well, don't mess around. IF in doubt, call Terminix. Must be cheaper to protect just a bass instead of the whole house. Drill a few test holes, spray chemicals in the bass, problem solved.
Or you might want to look for termite damage to the bass. Also take off the pickguard in case they snuck in through the jack. As far as I know, termites haven't perfected teleportation technology. So they would have to either sneak in through the jack or tunnel in through the wood.
Whatever you do, don't listen to that guy talking about safeguarding your house. If you make the house off limits to the termites, they'll go after your bass. Use your house for bait, that'll keep them away from the bass.
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06-19-2005, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by steveksux Well, don't mess around. IF in doubt, call Terminix. Must be cheaper to protect just a bass instead of the whole house. Drill a few test holes, spray chemicals in the bass, problem solved. | LOL!!! |
06-19-2005, 01:47 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | Termites instinctively go for damp and/or rotting wood. If your bass is finished and dry, there shouldn't be much to worry about. There's better stuff for the termites to feast on in your house than your bass. |
06-19-2005, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bel Air Maryland | | Termintes tend not to like finished wood either. House paint is one thing, clear coated laquer bass pain isn't tasty 
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06-19-2005, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Puerto Rico... for now... | | Only: Down here ( PR) we live in concrete houses, not wooden ones like in the States. 
Anyway, I live in an apartment.
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06-19-2005, 06:24 PM
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F**k the apartment, 'ts not mine...
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06-19-2005, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by steveksux Well, don't mess around. IF in doubt, call Terminix. Must be cheaper to protect just a bass instead of the whole house. Drill a few test holes, spray chemicals in the bass, problem solved.
Or you might want to look for termite damage to the bass. Also take off the pickguard in case they snuck in through the jack. As far as I know, termites haven't perfected teleportation technology. So they would have to either sneak in through the jack or tunnel in through the wood.
Whatever you do, don't listen to that guy talking about safeguarding your house. If you make the house off limits to the termites, they'll go after your bass. Use your house for bait, that'll keep them away from the bass.
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06-19-2005, 08:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Detroit area, Troy, MI | | | Fun termite trivia...
The most popular termite treatment involves bait traps set every so many feet around the house. The termites are drawn there, eat the poison, and end of problem. The poison is confined to the little bait traps, so you're not spraying hazardous chemicals all around the house. It doesn't seep into the groundwater, etc.
SO the question is: How much of that chemical is produced yearly? Tis is the most popular solution in the world, the market leader. How many gallons does it take to supply the entire world for 1 year?
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