Lol......and thank you for your service......besides, If they did make some changes to reduce weight from the bridge and the pickups, I would love to participate in a thread titled "Whats better: the old T 40 or the new T 40?" than not having one to participate inhahahahaha, well I'm not an RN or an MD but I was a combat medic and everyone called me Doc. We could probably swap a number of humerusenema tails.
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Peavey?
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Fred from Peavey started a thread asking for input from us in regards to multiscale basses. It's been dead for a while but the gist was they want to make the best of their euro factory and make an effort to bring top quality affordable instruments to the masses. I hope it happens, one of the dumbest things I did was trade in my 1992 foundation with the super ferrites...
I have the T 40 and Cirrus and I won't part with them (I had my current T 40 on ebay last year at a decent price but I had remorse about the listing but it didn't sell which surprised me considering it was priced more than right - I took it as a lucky omen after the remorse I had for selling my beautiful wine colored T 40 that I had for decades and decided not to part with this one).....but I also had some amazing Peaveys over the decades: the best being a Foundation S which I sold when I was very young and stupid
Did it?
Was he though?
Maybe it hurt him deeply, but the Undercover boss fiasco showed pretty clearly that whatever feelings may have been there, the employees were not treated with "loyalty" by Hartley or Cortland. Loyalty is not luring an employee back from a better paying job only to fire him a couple months later I don't believe for a minute they didn't know the end of USA production was near when they took a special interest in an employee on camera shortly before her whole department was shut down.
I'll always appreciate the gear Peavey made ( I did collate the T-40 Infosheet after all...) and I give him props for the way he has supported the steel guitar community over the years, but I know enough not to Lionize Hartley the human being. Hartley, Cortland and PV HDQ can stuff their revisionist history.
The bridge weighs around a pound, each pickup is about half a pound. The neck will be about two pounds, the tuners around half a pound. On an 11 pound bass, that leaves very roughly 6.5 pounds for the body and miscellaneous hardware.
Anyway, given the passion pickupmakers have for replicating old Fender and Gibson pickups (not to mention Danelectro and other brands), I'm a little surprised nobody's attempted to replicate the T-45 pickup and Super Ferrite. If somebody did that they'd definitely have customers. I've been thinking that my ideal bass would probably be something with Soundgear ergonomics and T-45 or L2000 pickups and electronics. Versatile without being overly fiddly, and easier for my old body to handle than one of the authentic boat anchors.
2 pounds for pickups and a bridge is a LOT lol .....tbh, I would guess closer to 3 pounds including everything else but, even still, even if they saved a pound and a half on the T 40 might make all the difference in the world as far as weight goes: it would still be heavy but probably not too different than some Jazz basses out there
Sad sad situation. I have an amazing '84 Foundation that I'll never get rid of. And I miss my T-40 a bit, but it was, and I s**t you not, 14.6 pounds. That said, I have been scrounging up old 80s Peavey bass amps, because I've found that they really are quite usable, sound great, with a fresh approach of course, and cheap. For now. I think all the used pre-90s Peavey stuff is going to go up in price soon.
I gigged my Peavey TNT160 combo for over a decade with only one issue, it weighed the same as a washing machine. I put every bass I had from my '64 500/1 to various Fenders & T40, and always got a nice sound from it. Peavey made some really great gear back in the 80's.
Half a pound isn't out of line for a humbucker, but yeah the bridge is an absolute brick.
I'm sure you are reporting it right and truthfully.
I just think there's an element of "doesn't-add-up" when Hartley can appear loyal heartbroken at HQ while his line workers are getting less than stellar treatment.
Thats exactly how I feel about it...Im pretty confident that Groot's account with the employee is accurate....Im also pretty confident that the Peavey company was - and still is - following a very obsolete business model with some measure of apathy
For any of the new Peavey Club members who may have missed my 3-part 2018 pictorial tribute to Peavey Guitars and Basses here are the links below.
I still gig my 1991 Peavey Dyna Bass (flat topped humbuckers 2nd model) through my 80's rig...a Peavey MKIV amp head and Peavey 1820 cab. Not once have they given me any reliability issues. I'm sure many regular Peavey club members have seen the pics of my Dyna and the rig many times loll
Whatever you have to say about Peavey products, In my opinion there is one very important word that goes hand in hand with the Peavey name...Reliability, and isnt that what every bass player requires of their equipment.
A Pictorial Tribute To Peavey Fine Craftsmanship Part 1
A Pictorial Tribute To Peavey Fine Craftsmanship Part 2
A Pictorial Tribute To Peavey Fine Craftsmanship Part 3
I still gig my 1991 Peavey Dyna Bass (flat topped humbuckers 2nd model) through my 80's rig...a Peavey MKIV amp head and Peavey 1820 cab. Not once have they given me any reliability issues. I'm sure many regular Peavey club members have seen the pics of my Dyna and the rig many times loll
Whatever you have to say about Peavey products, In my opinion there is one very important word that goes hand in hand with the Peavey name...Reliability, and isnt that what every bass player requires of their equipment.
A Pictorial Tribute To Peavey Fine Craftsmanship Part 1
A Pictorial Tribute To Peavey Fine Craftsmanship Part 2
A Pictorial Tribute To Peavey Fine Craftsmanship Part 3
I feel your pain. I had a Grind bass years ago. I sold it to get some money for another bass purchase, and I ended up with an Indonesian Cirrus 5. Love the Cirrus, but I miss that Grind so much.Y'all are making me miss my old dyna.
