Just bought ugliest Carvin ever...

[friendlybass]

Mines uglier! Probably heavier too

 

[Fair Warning]

I have a PB5 in Walnut, with the black PG.....gotta do it.

 

[Phillip B]

Just glancing at it, it brings to mind some of the Peaveys that came through my hands back in the 80's...

Exactly what I thought! T-40 was it?

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Add a fifth string and bridge pickup, it will be the Mona Lisa!

 

[PortlandBass77]

Looks good, I've seen a lottttttt worse.

 

[Stick_Player]

What's a Carvin?

 

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Get yer Carvin finishes straight, it's DragonSnot and it's beautiful....

It's just nasty. On that V220 or Xsomething or whatever, it'd shockingly, insanely, beautifully nasty. I just wouldn't want it on a bass I wanted to look nice.

 

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Mines uglier! Probably heavier tooView attachment 531007

I got one of those, and 2 of the one pickup versions. the all black one pickup fretless was one of my gigging basses last time I played much (along with a Peavey T40 fretted, of course, in case a fight broke out).

 

[scourgeofgod]

$769.00, shipped in a soft case.

Pretty good for an American made instrument

 

[Scott Waldy]

Exactly what I thought! T-40 was it?

I was thinking more along the lines of a T-20?

 

[friendlybass]

I got one of those, and 2 of the one pickup versions. the all black one pickup fretless was one of my gigging basses last time I played much (along with a Peavey T40 fretted, of course, in case a fight broke out).

Are yours all monstrously heavy and the pickups super hot?

 

[spanndrew]

I like it.

 

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Are yours all monstrously heavy and the pickups super hot?

Nah. Well, yeah, the pickups are indeed hot, but no, I don't remember any of them to be monstrously heavy. But you may wish to consider that the other bass I was gigging with at that time, in comparison, is of course, the ash-maple battleship anchor known as the T-40!

 

[Klondike]

The biggest question is... How does it sound?!?!

 

[Handyman]

I've never had a Carvin bass, just bought my third amp from them. Have never had a chance to try a PLEK'd bass either, gonna knock out two birds with this one. Have to admit, price drove this purchase. I have high hopes for it, but I still have the ten day trial to make up my mind.

Carvin doesn't plek their instruments - they just do really good old fashioned fret work.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Not ugly.
Simple.Humble.Yes!
But not ugly.
I would prefer a darker wood and no pickguard.If possible.(Front routed?)

 

[Zebra]

To me, Carvins tend to look like they're trapped in the 80's. This one isn't so bad really. It doesn't have the super 80's look to me.

The headstock has the same problem all Fender copies have. In an attempt to avoid lawsuits by having the same headstock design it ends up looking like a Fender with downs.

 

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To me, Carvins tend to look like they're trapped in the 80's. This one isn't so bad really. It doesn't have the super 80's look to me.

The headstock has the same problem all Fender copies have. In an attempt to avoid lawsuits by having the same headstock design it ends up looking like a Fender with downs.

The headstock on the black 80's Carvin with the cream humbuckers is a Gibson ripoff, not Fender. I like that body style a lot, though, more classic styling, before all the excess 80's crap. Which is cool, too, in its own right, but...)

 

[diamondsplit]

Did you see mine this was what I got on Christmas eve. How is that for a present

 

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Did you see mine this was what I got on Christmas eve. How is that for a present

Sorry, yeah, I missed that story. Arrived broken, not shipped that way? Yeah, that stinks, insurance claim on that, I hope! I don't remember seeing Carvins with that shape headstock - 70s, maybe?

On the other hand, if it was already broken and you bought it on the cheap to rebuild it, more power to you!