Early 1987:
Late 2007:
Yes!
As I said in this thread, I really wanted a Peavey T-40 because that was my first bass and I didn't appreciate it when I had it (actually, I ruined that instrument and sold it really cheap in 1989 
). So here it is. I started looking on eBay and, although I have a PayPal account, the guy who brings me stuff from the U.S. offered to buy it for me and I accepted since it's definitely easier for him than me.
This is the auction. Of course I had to pay much more (US$490 total) because of shipping to my country plus this guy's service, but I know it's nearly impossible to find a decent T-40 where I live.
And this is a superb one! Looks almost exactly like the one I had, but this one's body wood is a bit lighter-colored and more figured. Everything works perfectly and now I recall why the T-40 was/is so appreciated by tropical music bands: It has an incredible low end! And besides, it's an extremely versatile instrument. I can get lots of tones from the two pickups and now I know what the phase switch does (twenty years ago I only used the neck pickup and that switch only works using both pickups).
The neck is perfectly straight and I'd like it to have a bit of relief. Unfortunately, the bass doesn't have the original truss rod wrench, which is a female-type one. I have one of these (the last one in the pic), but the head is so long that it doesn't fit the truss rod cavity's top end, so I haven't been able to adjust it.
There's something that puzzles me: I always set my basses' pickup height to 5/32 of an inch from the neck pickup's top of the polepieces (blades, in this case) to the bottom of the strings and 4/32 of an inch from the bridge pickup's top of the blades to the bottom of the strings. It always works for me and never have any problems, but when I slap hard on this bass, I get that annoying click produced by the string hitting the pickup. Of course it can be solved just by lowering the pickups, but anyway I don't understand why my normal setup doesn't work here.
So, here it is. After 18 years, the Peavey T-40 returns home:
With original hard shell case:
It arrived yesterday and lots of flashbacks have been surrounding my head since then. I feel really happy.
Now, where's the Peavey T-40 club?
Late 2007:
Yes!
As I said in this thread, I really wanted a Peavey T-40 because that was my first bass and I didn't appreciate it when I had it (actually, I ruined that instrument and sold it really cheap in 1989 ). So here it is. I started looking on eBay and, although I have a PayPal account, the guy who brings me stuff from the U.S. offered to buy it for me and I accepted since it's definitely easier for him than me.This is the auction. Of course I had to pay much more (US$490 total) because of shipping to my country plus this guy's service, but I know it's nearly impossible to find a decent T-40 where I live.
And this is a superb one! Looks almost exactly like the one I had, but this one's body wood is a bit lighter-colored and more figured. Everything works perfectly and now I recall why the T-40 was/is so appreciated by tropical music bands: It has an incredible low end! And besides, it's an extremely versatile instrument. I can get lots of tones from the two pickups and now I know what the phase switch does (twenty years ago I only used the neck pickup and that switch only works using both pickups).
The neck is perfectly straight and I'd like it to have a bit of relief. Unfortunately, the bass doesn't have the original truss rod wrench, which is a female-type one. I have one of these (the last one in the pic), but the head is so long that it doesn't fit the truss rod cavity's top end, so I haven't been able to adjust it.
There's something that puzzles me: I always set my basses' pickup height to 5/32 of an inch from the neck pickup's top of the polepieces (blades, in this case) to the bottom of the strings and 4/32 of an inch from the bridge pickup's top of the blades to the bottom of the strings. It always works for me and never have any problems, but when I slap hard on this bass, I get that annoying click produced by the string hitting the pickup. Of course it can be solved just by lowering the pickups, but anyway I don't understand why my normal setup doesn't work here.
So, here it is. After 18 years, the Peavey T-40 returns home:
With original hard shell case:
It arrived yesterday and lots of flashbacks have been surrounding my head since then. I feel really happy.
Now, where's the Peavey T-40 club?
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