A stock one would have a Super Ferrite pickup that says Peavey on top.
Peavey Super Ferrite Bass Pickup 80s Black | Reverb
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Peavey Super Ferrite Bass Pickup 80s Black | Reverb
- Apr 18, 2008
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Thanks guys!
It’s maple/walnut/maple/walnut/maple, dyed trans black. African ebony fretboard, 20” radius.
It’s maple/walnut/maple/walnut/maple, dyed trans black. African ebony fretboard, 20” radius.
Peavey super ferrite single coil.
Same pickup that Peavey put in the Foundation bass.
If its OG its a Super Ferrite, many here love them myself included. Any pics?
Excellent work! Many mods require pics only. This is not one of those. Sound clips. We need sound clips!My “new” 198X Foundation.
Purchased as non-working, with a bad neck. That’s okay, since I dislike nearly everything about the original neck anyway. Too thin, heavy tuners, flat headstock, small radius. Not for me.
So I built my own neck, nice and flat, nice and wide, blacked out, set up for a Nova headless system, which also allowed me to tighten up the string spacing at the bridge end.
The body had its factory black paint, but was pretty scuffed up. So I hydro-dipped it with various glitter colors. You know, subtle.
The Super Ferrite pickups are fed through a passive blend, then into a John East two-band active circuit, then to a master volume. Sound is powerful, detailed, and aggressive. Just the way I like it!
Yep, a SF.
I wonder, being that the Patriot has a SF from the 'clearly labeled' era of SF, I wonder if it has been switched out?
Pic?
No affiliation. A rosewood neck T-40. I haven't even seen one of these for sale in a LONG time.
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Here's a picture of the bass I was talking about with a strange pickup..any ideas?
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That's anything BUT a Peavey pickup. Could be a Seymour Duncan, or a $5 made in China special. If you can buy the bass for less than $200 you'd be OK. You can find a replacement pickup for well under $100.
I don't know how Pawn Shops work in Delaware, but here in California they ask full retail and go from there. In the midwest like Chicago, they ask the amount of the loan plus a percentage. I know because Dr. Cheese sold me a Foundation for $60 years ago. I think the loan was $45 bucks, or something.
I don't know how Pawn Shops work in Delaware, but here in California they ask full retail and go from there. In the midwest like Chicago, they ask the amount of the loan plus a percentage. I know because Dr. Cheese sold me a Foundation for $60 years ago. I think the loan was $45 bucks, or something.
Fellow had it for sale at a local Musician's Yardsale that he has twice a year. I just got the picture to show a friend and didn't notice that the pickup wasn't stock until the friend pointed it out. He wants $225 for it but I'm sure he'll take less. He buys and sells..people come to him needing money and he takes the instruments off their hands. Not a pawnshop though...actually runs an RV repair and sales business. I 'd really be interested but it looks exactly like my Fury that I have since I changed the pickguard to black..exeept the pickup of course.
I'd offer $125 and tell him the pickup needs replacing. That is a fair price for that bass.
Yup, $100-$125
It needs a 80's Peavey Super Ferrite pickup that will cost you $75 when you can find one.
It also needs a new pickguard that will cost $50
It needs a 80's Peavey Super Ferrite pickup that will cost you $75 when you can find one.
It also needs a new pickguard that will cost $50
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hard to tell. Could be a Duncan Quarter Pounder, could be a cheap copy.
Either way, it's not a SF, which is the best pickup, ever!
$200 bass, max.
Here we go again,got chance of trading for natural finish, 83 Peavey T20 FL,with the chainsaw original case. Pickup has been replaced with Carvin owner says. He is asking $475,but we are discussing a trade.
Without the slant Super Ferrite in there, a T20 is kind of useless.
The body is big and heavy, the bridge has a weird baseplate and saddles that are too large to provide good string height without shimming or micro-tilt.
The neck is fretless which is more rare, so pretty cool.
I guess it really depends on what you are trading.
Cool neck, cool case, but I agree with 58--it's sort of a bear to get set up properly and it really depends on what you are trading for. $475 would be a typical price with the SF, but without it, It's a $350 bass to me.
I can see how it's shortcomings were revised with the Slant Fury. IMO, a T20 without the SF loses a big part of it's cool personality. That particular SF is the rare, unique version of the SF with a massive magnet structure, so finding a replacement (with the proprietary thumb rest/pickup ring) would be an exercise in patience. I have seen 2 come up for sale in the last 4 years or so. I almost bought the most recent one, just to have it. I think it sold for around $100.
Why would I buy a T20/1st Gen Fury SF?
A. To pass on when needed by someone, most likely someone here in this thread.
B. I have an unnatural, borderline obsessive love for the Super Ferrite.
(side note on borderline, unnatural obsessions) Long winded, silly insight into my life/mind...
I participate in a (wacky) 80s Toyota Van brotherhood. It's borderline cult--or maybe full on--haha. I have an '86 Cargo, and have owned 3 other Vans over the last 27 years. We all scour the country/salvage yards looking for the rare, out of production parts for our 33-38 year old vans and share info on repairs, substitute parts, tips, etc... For example, if you find an uncracked, working side door handle, you get it and pass it on to another in the club. That part is like the T20 Super Ferrite. Not unobtanium, but close.
These Vans were the US Peaveys of their time-there are lots of parallels.
-New in the 80s
-Built extremely well with top notch parts and engineering
-Most of these on the road have 300K+ miles on them and still running strong
-These were a full on bargain during the 90s-early 2000s (usually sold for $800-1000) because everyone paid 3-4Xs more for the more popular pickups (which are on the same frame, engine, tranny).
-Like the Great Peavey Awakening that started in the 20-teens and made our $100 deals turn into $400, "Van Life" and the 80s retro craze put these Toyotas on the map. Now, they sell for at least 3-5Xs what they did just a few short years ago.
Here it is. Not US Peavey, but certainly has a similar backstory. Plus, this Van has hauled soooo much of my (and my band mate's) Peavey gear around for hundreds and hundreds of gigs.
Just looking at this picture makes me smile. Plus, anyone that rides in it gets at least a little giggle. It's a fun whip!
In 1981 (I think) our company got a Toyota van (same color) as a work truck for picking up and delivering.(side note on borderline, unnatural obsessions) Long winded, silly insight into my life/mind...
I participate in a (wacky) 80s Toyota Van brotherhood. It's borderline cult--or maybe full on--haha. I have an '86 Cargo, and have owned 3 other Vans over the last 27 years. We all scour the country/salvage yards looking for the rare, out of production parts for our 33-38 year old vans and share info on repairs, substitute parts, tips, etc... For example, if you find an uncracked, working side door handle, you get it and pass it on to another in the club. That part is like the T20 Super Ferrite. Not unobtanium, but close.
These Vans were the US Peaveys of their time-there are lots of parallels.
-New in the 80s
-Built extremely well with top notch parts and engineering
-Most of these on the road have 300K+ miles on them and still running strong
-These were a full on bargain during the 90s-early 2000s (usually sold for $800-1000) because everyone paid 3-4Xs more for the more popular pickups (which are on the same frame, engine, tranny).
-Like the Great Peavey Awakening that started in the 20-teens and made our $100 deals turn into $400, "Van Life" and the 80s retro craze put these Toyotas on the map. Now, they sell for at least 3-5Xs what they did just a few short years ago.
Here it is. Not US Peavey, but certainly has a similar backstory. Plus, this Van has hauled soooo much of my (and my band mate's) Peavey gear around for hundreds and hundreds of gigs.
Just looking at this picture makes me smile. Plus, anyone that rides in it gets at least a little giggle. It's a fun whip!
It felt like it a had a lot of nose when I first got in it, but that truck ran a zillion miles without almost any work needed for maintenance.
I don't remember the company ever trading it in or selling it, I think it was still in use when I left for another job in '89.
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Why would you want to buy a T20/1st Gen Fury SF..??.....it's shortcomings were revised with the Slant Fury.
IMO, a T20 without the SF loses a big part of it's cool personality.
That particular SF is the rare, unique version of the SF with a massive magnet structure, so finding a replacement (with the proprietary thumb rest/pickup ring) would be an exercise in patience.
Why would I buy a T20/1st Gen Fury SF?
A. To pass on when needed by someone, most likely someone here in this thread.
B. I have an unnatural, borderline obsessive love for the Super Ferrite.
...because it is definitely one of the best sounding bass pickups ever made and it can't hurt to have a spare.
I think the 1st Gen Slant Fury Bass was an upgrade from the T20 Bass, same great SF pickup but a new better body shape (IMO) and a better bridge plate (still with the stupid huge saddles though, which are easily replaced by Wilkinson brass saddles).
When I bought my ash Gen 1 from Mech, I immediately took apart my T20 mutt (Foundation neck on T20 body) bass and sold the loaded body to Bleecker I think.
Later, I felt like I should have held on to the pickup.
Yeah, they are crazy good. Just keeping the fluids fresh and treating it like an arm's length acquaintance will see them to run 200K+. Treat them nice, use 87 octane gas (preferably without ethanol), don't push them hard on the highway or tow trailers and they go nearly twice that. I changed out the original distributor cap and spark plug wires back in 2008, when it was 22 years old and had about 140K miles. They still worked and performed fine, I only changed them because I was changing the plugs and wanted to do a little preventative maintenance. Turns out the stock Nippon/Denso parts were one step below racing grade, according to my more car centric friends. Expensive, the cap and 4 wires were about $150 from an online Toyota parts seller. Auto zone equivalents would have run me just under half that.
Yep, that's a rare pickup. Only around for a couple years. That massive magnet structure has to sound enormous! It's pretty easy to be a fanatical Super Ferrite fan.Why would you want to buy a T20/1st Gen Fury SF..??
...because it is definitely one of the best sounding bass pickups ever made and it can't hurt to have a spare.
I think the 1st Gen Slant Fury Bass was an upgrade from the T20 Bass, same great SF pickup but a new better body shape (IMO) and a better bridge plate (still with the stupid huge saddles though, which are easily replaced by Wilkinson brass saddles).
When I bought my ash Gen 1 from Mech, I immediately took apart my T20 mutt (Foundation neck on T20 body) bass and sold the loaded body to Bleecker I think.
Later, I felt like I should have held on to the pickup.
I imagine one could rig up a typical SF into the bass, using a stock pickup ring and installing some sort of thumb rest or 3D printing one that would work..? However, finding the typical SFs is seemingly getting rare. I gave my weak (broken wire in the coil somewhere-it read 150K and was anemic sounding) SF to a guy on here who is going to try to fix it as he is sort of desperate to get SFs. I figured if he, or someone else, can fix it, I would like to know. There was no way I was going to dig through that epoxy brick to try to do it myself. I only used it as a bridge mounted dummy coil (to kill hum) on my T-42.5/Foundation T project until I found and installed the T40 pickups in it.
