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Peavey T-40 Club Part 2

#881
eldoryder said:
Sorry I have no sound clips of my T-40FL, but here's a family pic showing the fretless Peavey on the far right. The others are my '78 (natural) and the '82 White. The T-40FL is capable of all kinds of "Jaco-esque" tones (at least in competent hands other than mine!)

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I have never really heard any Jaco before but I think I kinda know what the tone is about. Ill just have to wait and see. I have been thinking about getting a fretted neck for it sometime down the line

Edit: I just got the head stock pics
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@Minirehak 212 ...... That pot was make the 13th week of 1978...the last week of March. Your bass could have been made in 1978 or early 1979. Too bad the neck is not around. It may have been a very early instrument with a six-digit or "8M" serial number and with the pinstriping that follows the contour of the truss rod cover......or a pre-production salesman's sample with a "00000000" serial number.

Is there any writing on the back of the pickguard or in the neck pocket?

Edit: Looking at the pic again, I believe someone has been in there. The soldering doesn't look factory and I've never seen a pic that had a striped wire (White/red).

Edit 2: Definitely rewired. The tone pot and phase switch are not wired factory. Looks like the tone pot is a normal high roll off and the phase switch may be used for a single coil switch.
 
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mech said:
@Minirehak 212 ...... That pot was make the 13th week of 1978...the last week of March. Your bass could have been made in 1978 or early 1979. Too bad the neck is not around. It may have been a very early instrument with a six-digit or "8M" serial number and with the pinstriping that follows the contour of the truss rod cover......or a pre-production salesman's sample with a "00000000" serial number.

Is there any writing on the back of the pickguard or in the neck pocket?

Edit: Looking at the pic again, I believe someone has been in there. The soldering doesn't look factory and I've never seen a pic that had a striped wire (White/red).

Edit 2: Definitely rewired. The tone pot and phase switch are not wired factory. Looks like the tone pot is a normal high roll off and the phase switch may be used for a single coil switch.
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The wiring is not original. I cleaned it up a bit and played it and yeah this thing has been messed with. The volume pots work, the phase switch was replaced with the pickup selector. The tone controls and what would be pickups selector don't do a thing. I'm going to we wire it up tonight back to original. I don't recall seeing anything on the back of the PG or neck pocket but I will double check tonight when I do the wiring. It sucks that I have to do it but I like soldering
 
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Sorry for the double post but I found something on the body. I took off the bridge to clean it and found this stamped underneath
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Does anybody know what this could be? I just looked up peavey bodies and haven't seen it and a Google search came up empty

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I also found this written in pencil on the PG
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#892
Minirehak 212 said:
I took off the bridge to clean it and found this stamped underneath.........a Google search came up empty.
Edit: I also found this written in pencil on the PG
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I came up empty with a search, too. Probably previous owners name and birthday. Went to a lot of trouble to put it there. The pickguard was wired October 22, 1978 and the operators initials were A Y. That is an early one. I have a '79 that has the same initials. The pickups also have smooth plastic in the windows. As far as I can tell, they started having a texture sometime in 1979.

Edit: Might try the phone book for a B F McCoy. Also the body should have left the factory natural. Peavey didn't do colors for a few years. Good time to add the name when it was painted. The guy may be a machinist to have or have access to the stamps.
 
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mech said:
I came up empty with a search, too. Probably previous owners name and birthday. Went to a lot of trouble to put it there. The pickguard was wired October 22, 1978 and the operators initials were A Y. That is an early one. I have a '79 that has the same initials. The pickups also have smooth plastic in the windows. As far as I can tell, they started having a texture sometime in 1979.

Edit: Might try the phone book for a B F McCoy. Also the body should have left the factory natural. Peavey didn't do colors for a few years. Good time to add the name when it was painted. The guy may be a machinist to have or have access to the stamps.
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Man this bass has all sorts of mysteries around it, I'm liking it. I can snap a pic of the neck pocket and have you look at it to see if it was indeed refinished. I got the bass all wired up and it did work fine then one coil in the bridge pickup went out so I have to troubleshoot some things, funn
 
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#895
ba55i5t said:
...it what? My side dots look like they were drawn on lol.
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See fir yourself lol. When I got it the dots were black so I thought they were just regular dots. but looking at them close and seeing an empty hole on the last marker I decided to take some sandpaper to them and we'll yeah. You can see the condition of the 12th fret markers
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Do I get extra club points for having a cool neck and a bass that's full of mystery?
 
#896
Hey folks.

I'm getting some buzz on my A and D strings above the 12th fret. Do I need to use the neck adjustment here? E and G strings are just fine, but A and D are a bit thin and buzzy.

Thanks.
 
#897
Minirehak 212 said:
So will it make your T-40 soul feel better if I tell you this thing has freaking metal side position dots? I didn't even know
they were a thing
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My Ibanez RB800 has aluminum fret markers and side dots too. Not as cool as a T-40, but there's precedent for it at least.

mech said:
Also the body should have left the factory natural. Peavey didn't do colors for a few years.
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Sure they did. I have a near-new '78 8M in Sienna Burst and know of at least two others. No pinstriping around the TRC on mine, but my all-zeros has it. :D


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#898
Minirehak 212 said:
See fir yourself lol. When I got it the dots were black so I thought they were just regular dots. but looking at them close and seeing an empty hole on the last marker I decided to take some sandpaper to them and we'll yeah. You can see the condition of the 12th fret markersView attachment 1031047
Do I get extra club points for having a cool neck and a bass that's full of mystery?
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The dots were definitley decals or paint at first. The story (don't know how true it is) is that Russ Valory of Journey or some other T-series endorser came to the factory and was horrified to see that the side dots were drawn or decaled. Supposedly then Peavey started doing them as inlays. If memory serves, the Rosewood neck on my T-necked-Frankenbass which is a later model has inlayed dots (I sanded the finish mostly off and redid it and they're still there) but if you look closely at my '79 Maple neck it looks pretty clearly like they are painted or decals.
 
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