I've personally never seen one until I bought this off of ebay. I've always seen the same color all the way down. But this neck has the normal dark brown about 1/3 of the way down, then it has a 2nd piece that's almost the same color as the neck, if not just a shade or two darker.
You can kinda see it at http://i11.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/92/67/430d_12.JPG (not sure if that will work).
The ebay listing was under 130090403698
I bought this for a project, but I opted to buy a Squier 51 and sink money into that instead. I want to trade this for a MIM tele neck or something, but I was hoping to find out info on that skunk stripe since, in my experience, that's pretty odd.
Or, it is it just the factory being cheap and making a manufacturing error?
Thanks