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I got some Peavey parts...

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Gilmourisgod said:
If you wet-sand the pickguard before compound, you could probably get it back to looking like new, get a set of the micro-mesh pads and work your way through the grits, it will gleam like black glass. I restored a plastic windscreen on my boat like that, looks brand new.
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I considered that and might give it a go, I don't think I'd make it worse. If I totally screw it up I can always make a new one.
 
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Found myself with an unexpected day off so I decided to actually work on this :D

Got the neck pocket modified. This bass did not have an arm bevel (which I find uncomfortable), but it does now :cool:

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Plan remains the same, make the new parts fit (still gotta make clearance for the new pickup and modify the pickguard), lightly sand the whole thing, lay a base coat of black, sparkle on top, clear on top of that.

These were made in ash and mahogany. This one is clearly ash and the niceness of the grain in the area I exposed is tempting me to strip it all...
 
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Alright, I had me some peavey parts... and I still do, just not all the same parts :smug:

So this project stalled when I realized how heavy the body is. I thought about really removing a lot of body material but couldn't come up with a plan I felt good about.

It just sat, until another TBer with a couple NOS millennium bodies asked about the neck. One thing led to another and I swapped the neck for a sweet, and much lighter, NOS peavey body:

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Wait, you swapped the neck, for a body that needs the neck?!?!

Yup :D

So the plan is to put a headless 5 string together. I did this with a 6 and it came out really good, but I don't play 6 regularly and it just hung out till I traded it:
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I've still been jonesing for a headless 5er and this is the opportunity to get one. I've got a jackson spectra 5 string neck on the way. I wouldn't have chopped up a neck as nice as the US Peavey anyway. The jackson neck should be nice enough to setup and play well, while not being quite so blasphemous to chop it up :smug:

I've got a Nova individual saddle bridge and headpiece on the way too, and a SD pickup and preamp (gonna need a J pickup along the way).

Got some interesting plans like removing a chunk of body to clear the tuners, and making the truss rod accessible through the back of the head.

Should be fun :)
 
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The neck arrived and it looks pretty nice. There are some issues at the heel I knew about.

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And the fingerboard lifting slightly which I did not know about, but it got me a partial refund :D

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It's all pretty easy to address. I've got a chunk of 3/4" thick maple (OK, by "chunk" I mean an old shelf that came in a cabinet I bought for $10 at goodwill and turned into a cat litter hiding cabinet :cool:)

I'll get the board glued down, then cut out those bad spot, fill em with fresh maple, plug the other 2 holes, and I'll be ready to fit it.

The neck almost fits in the pocket as-is. It's so close that I think sanding the sides of the neck a little will get me there. The butt end of the jackson pocket must have a radius to it cause the neck heel ends in a rounded shape. I'll flatten that to match the Peavey pocket. I've got screws and ferrules on the way, as well as a Sadowsky noise canceling J pickup and a brass nut. Also got a shipping update this morning saying the Nova bridge will arrive Friday! :hyper:

Neck repair and fit up are the 1st order of business. The neck transition into the pocket isn't an exact match (understandably so :)), but there's enough meat on the neck that once it's attached, I can trace the Peavey pocket on it and shape it by hand to make it look like they were meant to go together.

I've never used the Nova bridge, I'm really hoping I don't have to sink it down into the body, but I'll see once the neck is on and I've got the bridge in hand. Hoping that neck shims will get me where I need to be.

I also ordered a brass nut and I want to run my plan past the hive-mind. With individual bridges, I don't want to have to ground them all. My thinking is ground one, and using a brass nut will connect the ground to the rest, yeah? The only issue I can see with the plan is if the nut has any sort of finish on it, but I don't think it does and I could easily remove it.

Hopefully the neck will be repaired and fit by the end of this weekend.
 
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