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Lightweight Peavey T-40? Nothing's unpossible!

I kinda like it as well, though I would have gone the route of Chip Todd instead of drilling holes. Really though, I would have just made it into a thinline. Would look much better IMO.

I'd skeletonize the rest of the body leaving just barely enough in the center to attach the pickups and bridge, then put thin plates of some nice wood on the front and back to make it a semi-hollow.
 
:thumbsdown:It WAS a nice bass. The same results could have been achieved without destroying the overall appearance of the instrument.

I was just thinking the same. Maybe take some material from the edge of the body (its circumference) instead of the front that's visible. You never see the edge of the body when you are playing it anyways.

Make some deep pocketed routes on the edge of the body and then plug them and refinish the plugged areas.
 
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I remember Peavey's big selling point for the T-40 and T-60 was the fact the bodies were shaped on CNC machines, a big deal back then and an innovation for musical instruments at the time. I'd say there must have been a bug in the software the day this one was made.
 
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