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For sale Peaveystein Reverse Fretted/Fretless (video added)

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$700.00
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4
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This item has been sold and is no longer available!

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I guarantee nobody else has one like it. I didn't even know whether to check the Y box on "fretless" on this one or leave it blank.
Burn it? Buy it? This bass splits the vote!
That's not all it splits:
This bass is a Peavey T-40 body, pickups, and bridge, with a Millennium neck divided into fretless and fretted portions, the notes up to the twelfth fret fretless, the notes above fretted. A slight ramp enables smooth transition from fretless to fretted. The T-40 is famous as one of the most versatile, underrated basses on the planet, so you know it sounds great, and there's no buzzing on the modded neck at any point.
It's fun to loop fretless bass parts and play solid, fretted chords over them, all on the same bass.
One thing it doesn't split is you from your significant other: only 700 USD plus shipping, saving you the hundreds of dollars in labour a mod like this costs.
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Let Big Mort, the talented fellow who modded the neck, suggested the parts, and put this together for me, show you how it sounds:

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Sep 5, 2002
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This is too wild. My mom was from Newfoundland and I have a lot of relatives still living there. Ever heard of Markland?
 
Oct 18, 2016
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This is too wild. I'm tempted
There's a thread somewhere on Talkbass from when I first bought it, a NBD I believe, with a video of Big Mort--he has a business modifying instruments on Reverb--himself playing it before shipping it to me. Gotta find it!
EDIT: I named the bass Big Mort after him, but the new owner can name it anything they want, even nothing at all. :)
 
Oct 18, 2016
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This is too wild. My mom was from Newfoundland and I have a lot of relatives still living there. Ever heard of Markland?
Really! I know of Markland but have never been there. Usually when I say I'm from Newfoundland, people look at me like I made it up.
 
Oct 18, 2016
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Yea, my mom grew up in Markland. I haven't been to Newfoundland since 1967 so I'm sure it is all changed now.
I only moved here in 2007, during the brief oil boom, in which real estate got way more expensive practically overnight, so that's a big change for sure; since I moved here, however, the economy has changed for the worse. Many people struggle to find jobs in the province and must move away. It has always been thus, but the pandemic surely doesn't help for anybody, anywhere. Speaking of the people, some of the kindest, funniest, and most talented people around live right here on this crazy Little Rock. I love it here and love raising my kids here.
 
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"Speaking of the people, some of the kindest, funniest, and most talented people around live right here on this crazy Little Rock." That was my impression from my limited time there too.
 
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Huh. I’ve often thought of modifying a fretted neck to 1/2 fret less, but with the lover notes fretted, stopping at the 9th or 10th fret. This is loopy, but I love it!
 
Oct 18, 2016
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Huh. I’ve often thought of modifying a fretted neck to 1/2 fret less, but with the lover notes fretted, stopping at the 9th or 10th fret. This is loopy, but I love it!
I was going to go that way too, but then I figured, why confine my fretless notes to the upper frets, where intonation is at its most difficult and slides into mwah much shorter, when I could be sliding around down below and power-chording up top? It's super fun. Hell, I've kept this bass about ten times as long as any of the others.
 
Oct 18, 2016
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He even moved the fret dots on the fretless part to the fret lines for me. Probably the most expensive Peavey Millennium BXP necks in existence.
 
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SWEET !!! I am definitely going to check out mortoneinstruments.com to look at his wacky inventions. He sounds like a very creative builder. More like a modifier, which I like even better ! Take a proven instrument and turn it into a hot rod.

That bass sounds incredible !

GLWTS !
 
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SWEET !!! I am definitely going to check out mortoneinstruments.com to look at his wacky inventions. He sounds like a very creative builder. More like a modifier, which I like even better ! Take a proven instrument and turn it into a hot rod.

That bass sounds incredible !

GLWTS !
I believe he specializes in mandocello, piccolo basses and the like, although he did have one of these already made, albeit on a lower-end bass whose name I forget, for sale on ebay recently. He'd done the bottom half fretted before but never the top. This was his first go at it; lots of labour went into this bass. He has a pretty keen aesthetic sense too.
 
Oct 18, 2016
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sold on reverb ... end of an era (at least for three middle-aged men in Newfoundland who followed Big Mort as he brought his namesake into creation)!
 

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