I know the feeling had a new neck made for this reason to be honest worthwhile I think !! Back to the number 1 gigging bass! later model than yours though!
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NBD! 1995 Peavey Forum
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Incidentally, I have sent necks to warpedneck.com, and he does good work and is reasonably priced. Also I do neck and truss rod repairs / replacements, but I'd rather not clutter my NBD thread with neck repair stuff!
It's very cool and dare I say a bit Sandberg-y looking. Super cool, have fun!
Nice score! I love the late '80s/early '90s Peaveys, including my '90 Dyna-Bass. All of the ones I've tried have had that 'not fancy but solid, could easily be a gig workhorse' vibe.
Yeah, they definitely have that solid workhorse vibe. In a certain sense, there really isn't a better kind of bass!
So let me ask. Do I send my Fury neck off to twistedneck or have a replica made?
Having it straightened (and truss fixed) has the risk it might not hold in the long run.
Replicating it means not having the original wood hence changing its character.
Straightening it probably wouldn't do much to the sound. He uses some kind of heat + clamping treatment. If the neck is straightened, that might actually fix the maxed truss rod problem, but it's hard to say for sure. warpedneck.com charges like $100 plus shipping or something like that, so it might be worth it.
Replacing the truss rod would probably change the character somewhat. Truss rod replacement usually involves replacing the fretboard. However, if the bass is unplayable as is, then you're not really losing anything. Additionally, it might change it for the better - you'll be able to play it, and that's certainly better.
If it's a single-action Fender-style truss rod, you can sometimes add a washer and get a couple more turns out if it.
Or, you could build another neck. I build replacement necks for weird basses all the time. I just did a Gibson Grabber neck a couple months ago. I've done a few Warwicks, Ibanez, etc.
I'm super excited! I just picked up a 1995 Peavey Forum bass on Reverb - $325 shipped with a case. A little background - I've been wanting one of these for a while. Years ago, I found and played one in a local music store for roughly the same price ($275 and no case). For some reason, I immediately loved that Peavey Forum! At the time, I was not in the market for a new bass, but my nephew wanted one for his studio, so he bought it. Anyway, this Peavey Forum popped up on Reverb, so I figured, "Why not?", and I bought it.
One one hand, the Peavey Forum is an underrated instrument. It has a lot of qualities that make it a solid, working bass. It's made in USA, the chunky one-piece maple neck plays good, the big, fat humbucker and 2-band active EQ give it a real meat & potatoes tone that works for anything, and it's built to withstand a fall out of the truck after someone forgets to close the tailgate after one too many pints of Pabst Blue Ribbon on a Saturday night at the local bar & grill. On the other hand, the Forum has a nondescript vibe that plagued some these 80's and 90's USA Peaveys. It seems like they were really just reacting to the whims of the market and producing safe instruments that were similar to other instruments out there. I know Peavey got into making neck-thrus and fancy top woods later in the decade, but even these more "high-quality" instruments weren't breaking any new barriers in design. All that being said, I do have to give Peavey tremendous props - even though some of their designs weren't necessarily groundbreaking, they did continue to make their own components, which it seems a lot of manufacturers were beginning to give up on at that point in time.
Oddly enough, I've come to recognize the influence that Peavey has had on my own instruments. I dismantled and copied a T40 pickup for my Uno bass, and the new Pistolera pickup is basically one of those T40 coils split in half. I've never been much of a collector of anything, but as of late, I've been feeling this desire to have a few of these "less desirable" instruments in my arsenal. As I've become a professional luthier, I've been more and more impressed with instruments built on a small budget than I am with more expensive basses. At this time, I have a running list of 6-7 basses that seem to be going for under $500 used.
My only complaint about this bass is that it has the super-lame Peavey "delta" logo. I would have loved to proudly rock this bass with the ugly-ass "lightning" logo.
Anyway, I love this bass!
Love that color scheme. @Dr. Cheese has some nice videos featuring his 5 string version. These basses sound great.
It is playable below the 12th fret. With ~6/64 action. With GHS pressurewounds 40 54 76 96
Maybe thats not so bad and I should leave it alone. It is forever married to light strings.
I have a bad feeling about the truss. It is single-action truss rod. It has a 5/16 nut adjuster I am told like a Gibson guitar. The rod is not only flush with the end of the nut, it is protruding and the threads are visible.
I had to make a tool just to reach it and it requires an uncomfortable force to turn it. I work on old cars-
to me it feels near breaking point. (like 15 ft/lbs torque)
For this to happen it seems the other end might be loosing its anchor. In that case the washer trick might not help and might even make it worse just pulling it out even more. I don't know. I have only been playing 4 yrs now and am just now confident in doing my own setups so I have little experience judging these things. Life has however taught me that if it doesn't quite feel right there is a %90 probablilty its not.
If I built another neck it would probably be a very different bass. Yes perhaps too different.
You say "Replacing the truss rod would probably change the character somewhat".
This is good to know. (It does have a rosewood fretboard btw).
Maybe I should contact warpedneck and run it by him. Maybe I should just play it as it is.
Despite this, it still feels and sounds better than my only 3 yr old MIM jazz. Again it was my first bass and maybe thats because I'm just in love with it.
Thank you very for your input. I do appreciate it. This was a good exercise in thinking about it.
Yeah, they really do sound great. I'm really happy with mine.
The Forum is a different kind of beast than the ATK. The pickup placement is completely different. Just judging from that, I'd say as a guess that the ATK will have more focused "punch" than the Forum, but the Forum will have a broader tonal output.
Would you like them both for similar reasons? Maybe. Both pickups have a "smooth" quality to them. I think I'd attribute that to the thin blade poles and the wide pickup aperture. They're both active instruments.
Would you like both basses for different reasons? I don't see why not. I've played StingRays for decades, and I build my own basses with a cloned T40 pickup in the MM position. I'm not sure why the Forum draws the StingRay comparisons. I think the Forum sounds great in its own way. To me, it doesn't sound anything like a StingRay.
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I've fixed necks with the heat treatment. You basically build an easy bake oven around the neck while it's truss rod is totally relaxed and the neck is clamped into a very slight backbend. Leave a few hours then turn off the light and leave it another day. I'm sure the warped neck guys do it great and the price is quite reasonable especially if you don't have the setup, but you can cobble it up yourself if you're so inclined and in a pinch.
If it's only forward bow that's an issue sometimes you can correct that with a refret with fatter tangs, but that's probably the whole cost of the bass.
If it's only forward bow that's an issue sometimes you can correct that with a refret with fatter tangs, but that's probably the whole cost of the bass.
Yes was used as a template , I chose fret wire a little thicker and the best truss rod and maple I could afford and T 40 tuners! Unfortunately new logo was on the small side ….
I never made a stingray connection with these, but I did always see these as a poor man's modulus funk. Really that would be the g bass with the graphite neck though. I prefer wood necks, so the forum made more sense to me.
You can see me playing my '93 Peavey Foundation on my Base Bote. I bought it when a music store went out of business for $250 w/case. I told my son to play that and I will use the '83 Jazz Bass. I didn't like the PUs on the Jazz and could never get the neck/action right. I sold the Jazz and kept the Peavey when I lost my job. I know that Jazz is now worth a lot more than the $350 I paid for it, but that's a different thread. I think the neck and body wood have sympathetic harmonics or what ever it's called. I love the PUs, tone and sustain this has. My biggest gripe is that it's neck heavy. I found a 5 string Foundation, but it didn't have the mojo. I have been looking for a Forum for years, great find!
Ah yes, Mr. B, the good old Zoom B3...still use mine, along with two other Zoom's. Nice set-up you have there!
