Peavey T-40 Club Part 2

[Mark Andrew]

Apologies to those in the US peavey thread who have already had to look at my ugly mug but this happened on Saturday ..... Chuffed doesn't quite describe it. I have and sill have Fury's and Foundations and Dynas and Precisions but this fat old girl trumps them all

 

[B-Mac]

Apologies to those in the US peavey thread who have already had to look at my ugly mug but this happened on Saturday ..... Chuffed doesn't quite describe it. I have and sill have Fury's and Foundations and Dynas and Precisions but this fat old girl trumps them all

Ain't nuttin' ugly about the T-40......

 

[Mark Andrew]

Ain't nuttin' ugly about the T-40......

Oh I agree I was referring to the person holding it. Mug being mugshot or my face...

 

[B-Mac]

Was there a person in the pick? I was so mesmerized by the bass.......G.A.S.-ing for a T-45 to match my T-40 right now.....Probably one of the most under appreciated and misunderstood basses.

[edit] T-45 update

Well, I found a T-45 that matches my current T-40 and pulled the trigger....should be here in a week from Canada

[edit] update

Well, it shipped and I really don't want to jinx myself, but here goes....

So, is there a Peavey T-45 club too? I did a search and couldn't find one...

[Edit]

update 04-21-2018


Picked this up at the post office late afternoon just seconds before they closed. It is like it was in a time capsule. All the chrome is spotless, not pits or blemishes. Some minor dings here and there but not very noticeable. Need to do some intonation adjustments, but other than that this thing is sweet!

 

[Giffro]

Ok guys previous to my first T-40 post a page or so back I have picked up my T-40 and it is beautiful. The private seller was a guitarist who did a swap with one of his expensive guitars for another guitar and to make up the monetary shortfall the T40 was also thrown into the bargain. There is not much previous information on it unfortunately and I wish I knew more about it's past history here in Australia. The bass is in excellent condition with usual age blemishes for its 1979 vintage. On the rear are a few minor marks and also on the back of the neck, a bit of minor "speckling" of the chrome on the saddles, a replacement on-on-on pup selector switch, an original paddle switch on the phase, but overall a very nice instrument. Natural slab body 0034xxxx (8) Serial Number date it to 1979 with toaster pickups. Neck is perfectly straight, flat, with low action and plays beautifully. Price Australian of $600 was equivalent in todays exchange rate (14th April 2018) to $466USD which was a price I was happy to pay for this great bass. I include the advertising pics for the bass (on the advert pic the seller had the S/N blanked out) but I will upload a new lot of my own in a few days after I have cleaned her up a bit more, changed strings, re-fitted the TRC and picture her next to my Peavey '91 Dyna Bass in front of my old Peavey MKIV 1820 rig. A perfect combo. Because she has a big butt I think i'll call her Whole Lotta Rosie from the ACDC song.
Weight was taken on my bathroom digital scales. I weighed myself..noted my weight...weighed myself again holding the bass and deducted the difference to get the bass weights. The T40 came in at 10.8lbs. My 4" Walker/Williams strap should help spread the weight. Comparisons to some of my other basses are as follows...
PEAVEY T40 (4 String).................10.8 lbs
EBMM SR5 (5 String)...................10.2 lbs
RICKENBACKER 4003 (4 String)......9.2 lbs
PEAVEY DYNA BASS 5 (5 String)......8.6 lbs
The bass has been very well looked after, setup properly and the pup selector switch replaced professionally. I am extremely happy.
Will post some better pics next week, so may I have a number please.

 

[redstrand]

10.8? Pshaw you got a light one, mines 13

 

[Eilif]

Played my t40 at my country gig on Friday. Sounded great of course but even with my 4 inch strap i wasnt going to use it for more than one set. When i put on my Carlo second set it felt weightless.

Still it has confirmed my choice to keep the T40 even as I sell off my other heavy basses.

 

[Eilif]

Ok guys previous to my first T-40 post a page or so back I have picked up my T-40 and it is beautiful. The private seller was a guitarist who did a swap with one of his expensive guitars for another guitar and to make up the monetary shortfall the T40 was also thrown into the bargain. There is not much previous information on it unfortunately and I wish I knew more about it's past history here in Australia. The bass is in excellent condition with usual age blemishes for its 1979 vintage. On the rear are a few minor marks and also on the back of the neck, a bit of minor "speckling" of the chrome on the saddles, a replacement on-on-on pup selector switch, an original paddle switch on the phase, but overall a very nice instrument. Natural slab body 0034xxxx (8) Serial Number date it to 1979 with toaster pickups. Neck is perfectly straight, flat, with low action and plays beautifully. Price Australian of $600 was equivalent in todays exchange rate (14th April 2018) to $466USD which was a price I was happy to pay for this great bass. I include the advertising pics for the bass (on the advert pic the seller had the S/N blanked out) but I will upload a new lot of my own in a few days after I have cleaned her up a bit more, changed strings, re-fitted the TRC and picture her next to my Peavey '91 Dyna Bass in front of my old Peavey MKIV 1820 rig. A perfect combo. Because she has a big butt I think i'll call her Whole Lotta Rosie from the ACDC song.
Weight was taken on my bathroom digital scales. I weighed myself..noted my weight...weighed myself again holding the bass and deducted the difference to get the bass weights. The T40 came in at 10.8lbs. My 4" Walker/Williams strap should help spread the weight. Comparisons to some of my other basses are as follows...
PEAVEY T40 (4 String).................10.8 lbs
EBMM SR5 (5 String)...................10.2 lbs
RICKENBACKER 4003 (4 String)......9.2 lbs
PEAVEY DYNA BASS 5 (5 String)......8.6 lbs
The bass has been very well looked after, setup properly and the pup selector switch replaced professionally. I am extremely happy.
Will post some better pics next week, so may I have a number please.
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Nice score! She's lovely.

 

[Giffro]

10.8? Pshaw you got a light one, mines 13

Yes, as I was expecting it to be heavier so I was quite surprised at the lesser weight, plus the seller gave me pensioner discount off the price lolll

 

[Giffro]

I just had a question for all you T-40 experts. I have just purchased my first Peavey T-40, although I've been a Peavey Dyna Bass owner for nearly 30 years, and I really love the look of the natural ash body with its beautiful grain on the T-40. I have no intentions of doing what I'm about to ask, but I just wondered if any of you owners have ever taken the finish back and applied a Tru-Oil finish to the natural wood? I was wondering what it may look like on the grainy finish of these basses if ever attempted. I was only querying about Tru-Oil not tung oil but that actual gunstock finish Tru-Oil by Birchwood Casey. I would be interested to see if anyone has finished one with it. If the subject has been asked and covered before please forgive me. I have actually read through all the T-40 club Parts 1 and 2 threads over the period of a week or so and don't remember seeing anything related to my question unless I missed it through eye strain loll.

 

[mech]

@Griffo ....... A friend of mine contoured a slab T-40. He used a walnut grain filler like on the original T-40 finish but sanded to where the smooth grain areas were back to the natural color unlike the original. Finished with semi-gloss polyurethane. I converted it to a five string and he made the tort pickguard. Having used Tru-Oil on other woods, I would say it would look about like this but with a light gold look on the smooth areas and slightly darker gold on the grain and darker still on the end grain since it wouldn't be sealed and the Tru-Oil will penetrate more. I'd check in Luthier's Corner. I'm sure there are ash examples that will be posted to your question. Lots of friendly help available there. Second pic shows the difference in sanded natural color and factory finish

 

[Giffro]

@Griffo ....... A friend of mine contoured a slab T-40. He used a walnut grain filler like on the original T-40 finish but sanded to where the smooth grain areas were back to the natural color unlike the original. Finished with semi-gloss polyurethane. I converted it to a five string and he made the tort pickguard. Having used Tru-Oil on other woods, I would say it would look about like this but with a light gold look on the smooth areas and slightly darker gold on the grain and darker still on the end grain since it wouldn't be sealed and the Tru-Oil will penetrate more. I'd check in Luthier's Corner. I'm sure there are ash examples that will be posted to your question. Lots of friendly help available there. Second pic shows the difference in sanded natural color and factory finish


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Thanks mech for the explanation and the great pics...I'll have a wander around to Luthier's Corner and see if i can see some examples. I was just interested to see what the result looked like on an ash body. Thank you again for taking the time to post your comprehensive reply. Nice 5 string conversion btw. Giff.

 

[kkaarrll]

@Griffo ....... A friend of mine contoured a slab T-40. He used a walnut grain filler like on the original T-40 finish but sanded to where the smooth grain areas were back to the natural color unlike the original. Finished with semi-gloss polyurethane. I converted it to a five string and he made the tort pickguard. Having used Tru-Oil on other woods, I would say it would look about like this but with a light gold look on the smooth areas and slightly darker gold on the grain and darker still on the end grain since it wouldn't be sealed and the Tru-Oil will penetrate more. I'd check in Luthier's Corner. I'm sure there are ash examples that will be posted to your question. Lots of friendly help available there. Second pic shows the difference in sanded natural color and factory finish


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dunno if I would contour it
but I sure might tort it like that if I get one

 

[Mark Andrew]

dunno if I would contour it
but I sure might tort it like that if I get one

T40 owners. I had my first gig with the newly acquired t40 this weekend. Plugged her in on the "p bass" setting and flat on my classic 400 sounded like a dream. The the rest of the band fell in and bass just dissapeared in the mix. Never had the amp up so far!!!! Switching back to my fury almost leveled the venue...... What am I doing wrong?

 

[mech]

......I sure might tort it like that if I get one

If you do a tort PG I recommend a custom one where the pickups mount to the PG and the rings are left off. Gives a better thumb rest and looks neater, IMHO. Added #4 black screws by the bridge to support the pickup. Same guy made this PG, also.

 

[lug]

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T40 owners. I had my first gig with the newly acquired t40 this weekend. Plugged her in on the "p bass" setting and flat on my classic 400 sounded like a dream. The the rest of the band fell in and bass just dissapeared in the mix. Never had the amp up so far!!!! Switching back to my fury almost leveled the venue...... What am I doing wrong?

Hard to say. Did you monkey with the phase switch? Did you play with the two tone pots (this causes the pups to go between single coil and humbucker). Hard to say w/o more info. I know my T40 has no trouble at all keeping up with any of my other passive basses.

 

[Mark Andrew]

Hard to say. Did you monkey with the phase switch? Did you play with the two tone pots (this causes the pups to go between single coil and humbucker). Hard to say w/o more info. I know my T40 has no trouble at all keeping up with any of my other passive basses.

Yes I monkeyd opening up both volumes and dialling tones back to 7 brought it back in the mix again (in phase)I believe people refer to this as the thunderbird type setting. More monkeying is needed I believe as I had not played with amp. A gig was not the right place for that. P bass setting seemed to scoop away all the mids and with one volume off with this setting on the dial at least the output was lowered considerably....explains why I loved the sound as I like a good mid scoop. But in the mix it's useless with the amp as it was. I will try again at least I got a photo ...

 

[kkaarrll]

If you do a tort PG I recommend a custom one where the pickups mount to the PG and the rings are left off. Gives a better thumb rest and looks neater, IMHO. Added #4 black screws by the bridge to support the pickup. Same guy made this PG, also.

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that is incredible

mech--you seem to know about these kinds of things,,, how hard would it be to put a front loaded output jack on a t40, and move the phase padde up by the pickup selector?

 

[mech]

....how hard would it be to put a front loaded output jack on a t40, and move the phase padde up by the pickup selector?

The phase switch could be easily moved there. May have to make a little room in the pocket for the output jack

 

[Mark Andrew]

Ok guys previous to my first T-40 post a page or so back I have picked up my T-40 and it is beautiful. The private seller was a guitarist who did a swap with one of his expensive guitars for another guitar and to make up the monetary shortfall the T40 was also thrown into the bargain. There is not much previous information on it unfortunately and I wish I knew more about it's past history here in Australia. The bass is in excellent condition with usual age blemishes for its 1979 vintage. On the rear are a few minor marks and also on the back of the neck, a bit of minor "speckling" of the chrome on the saddles, a replacement on-on-on pup selector switch, an original paddle switch on the phase, but overall a very nice instrument. Natural slab body 0034xxxx (8) Serial Number date it to 1979 with toaster pickups. Neck is perfectly straight, flat, with low action and plays beautifully. Price Australian of $600 was equivalent in todays exchange rate (14th April 2018) to $466USD which was a price I was happy to pay for this great bass. I include the advertising pics for the bass (on the advert pic the seller had the S/N blanked out) but I will upload a new lot of my own in a few days after I have cleaned her up a bit more, changed strings, re-fitted the TRC and picture her next to my Peavey '91 Dyna Bass in front of my old Peavey MKIV 1820 rig. A perfect combo. Because she has a big butt I think i'll call her Whole Lotta Rosie from the ACDC song.
Weight was taken on my bathroom digital scales. I weighed myself..noted my weight...weighed myself again holding the bass and deducted the difference to get the bass weights. The T40 came in at 10.8lbs. My 4" Walker/Williams strap should help spread the weight. Comparisons to some of my other basses are as follows...
PEAVEY T40 (4 String).................10.8 lbs
EBMM SR5 (5 String)...................10.2 lbs
RICKENBACKER 4003 (4 String)......9.2 lbs
PEAVEY DYNA BASS 5 (5 String)......8.6 lbs
The bass has been very well looked after, setup properly and the pup selector switch replaced professionally. I am extremely happy.
Will post some better pics next week, so may I have a number please.
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As a fellow new T40 owner how are you Eqing Rosie? Allot of tones I like hoping I can find one that cuts at the next practice