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12-07-2012, 08:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | | I have a fretless TL-5. The previous owner installed Bartolini J pickups. It's the best sounding fretless 5 I've ever heard. |
12-07-2012, 08:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hunts-Vegas, Alabama | | Quote:
Originally Posted by smcd  I have a fretless TL-5. The previous owner installed Bartolini J pickups. It's the best sounding fretless 5 I've ever heard. | Did he have the fb epoxied? I would think that thick slab of ebony would be hard enough without it. |
12-07-2012, 08:22 AM
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12-07-2012, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by mark beem Did he have the fb epoxied? I would think that thick slab of ebony would be hard enough without it. | It has a phenolic resin board. I've always assumed it came from the factory that way. I'll try to get some photos. |
12-07-2012, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by smcd It has a phenolic resin board. I've always assumed it came from the factory that way. I'll try to get some photos. | It may have.. I've never seen a factory fretless TL-5. Didn't think they made any.
Interesting... |
12-07-2012, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by mark beem It may have.. I've never seen a factory fretless TL-5. Didn't think they made any.
Interesting... | I have a chop saw I have been dying to try out. You want me to try to cut out the frets before I send it over? Not really sure what the blade will do when it hits though.....
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12-07-2012, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by MTMTEX I have a chop saw I have been dying to try out. You want me to try to cut out the frets before I send it over? Not really sure what the blade will do when it hits though..... | LOL! No, I'll take that one as is! 
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12-10-2012, 11:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Marietta, GA | | | G-V for sale, eBay
Ill guess some of you spotted this as well, but for convenience sake: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Peavy-G...item4abf5d3e82
Title = Rare Peavy G-V Bass, Graphite neck
Auction starts at $575. Don't know if thats appealing or what.
Good luck and Merry Christmas, all.
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12-11-2012, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by mark beem Looks as if I'll have another TL-5 on its way to me soon.. I've been thinking of taking one of them and having it defretted.
Anybody have any thoughts? | Do it yourself .... With patience (and the right tools) you can do it
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12-11-2012, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by smcd I have a fretless TL-5. The previous owner installed Bartolini J pickups. It's the best sounding fretless 5 I've ever heard. | Second best here - behind a bogart (if you can find or afford one)
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12-11-2012, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by smcd
It has a phenolic resin board. I've always assumed it came from the factory that way. I'll try to get some photos.
| Interested ... Never heard of this as a special order --- would be different provess
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12-11-2012, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by TBGFRED Ill guess some of you spotted this as well, but for convenience sake: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Peavy-G...item4abf5d3e82
Title = Rare Peavy G-V Bass, Graphite neck
Auction starts at $575. Don't know if thats appealing or what.
Good luck and Merry Christmas, all. | Comparing to my modulus(s) it's a better value in a desirable color
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12-11-2012, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MNAirHead With patience (and the right tools) you can do it | I have neither. LOL!  |
12-11-2012, 02:56 PM
|  | The guy with the dumb username... | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Massachusetts | | | It is indeed possible, with a soldering iron, fingernail clippers, some wood filler and some sandpaper I defretted my import model Millennium 5 years back when I decided the sound was boring and I needed a reason to keep it around.
Gutted the passive electronics put in an OBP-3 and it probably sounds more like it would have if it wasn't one of the indonesian made ones.
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12-12-2012, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Northeast Ohio | | I just picked-up an '84 Fury as my first bass...
Is this where one posts to get a US Peavey Club #?
( where are all the big red letters?) 
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12-12-2012, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Ed_in_NE_Ohio I just picked-up an '84 Fury as my first bass...
Is this where one posts to get a US Peavey Club #?
( where are all the bog red letters?) | Pics or it didn't happen! |
12-12-2012, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by mark beem Pics or it didn't happen! | Roger!  
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12-12-2012, 10:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hunts-Vegas, Alabama | | | Nice!!! |
12-12-2012, 10:26 AM
|  | Out of GAS!! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Roseville, CA / Marshall, VA | | | I take it you've been playing guitar for a while... LOL!
Welcome to the club!
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12-12-2012, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by StuartV I take it you've been playing guitar for a while... LOL!
Welcome to the club! | Thanks. Tenor guitar and electric mandolin of all things!
Feeling right at home with four strings, but still getting reacquainted with the tuning in fourths!  
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