Sorry for so many questions but I have two more. So should I take the neck off? What technique of securing the bass would you use?
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Clear uninterrupted line from the nut slot to the bridge saddle, i.e. no fouling on frets or pickups
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No need to take the neck off - you can if you really want to, but it's more trouble for no benefit.
One possible method is to sit in a chair, with the bass body resting on the floor between your legs, and the neck pointing upwards. The bridge is against your right foot, and the neck plate is against your left knee. Use your legs to hold the body stationary, bend the neck with your left hand, then snug up the nut with your right.
Alternatively you could use a kitchen table or other work surface, along with some straps and/or clamps.
A bass that I wouldn't mod is rare indeed. That is one sweet bass!
Translation.
Clear uninterrupted line from the nut slot to the bridge saddle, i.e. no fouling on frets or pickups
Well played my friend!
Look at some Youtube vids, Bass guitar set up.
Dave's World of Fun Stuff videos can give you a pretty good procedure, John Carruthers from Elixer Strings also has a couple good videos.
I've never had to pull on a Peavey neck to get it into proper relief (probably been lucky), I've just loosened the strings to floppy loose and turned the truss nut a bit until firm and checked it, then again until the relief at the seventh fret is at my preferred .009
The thing I like to do before tightening a 30 year old truss rod nut is to back it off a bit and see if it goes smoothly before turning clockwise to tighten.
Sometimes I take the brass nut off and put a tiny bit of Vaseline in the threads and then put the nut on and begin to tighten.
Dave's World of Fun Stuff videos can give you a pretty good procedure, John Carruthers from Elixer Strings also has a couple good videos.
I've never had to pull on a Peavey neck to get it into proper relief (probably been lucky), I've just loosened the strings to floppy loose and turned the truss nut a bit until firm and checked it, then again until the relief at the seventh fret is at my preferred .009
The thing I like to do before tightening a 30 year old truss rod nut is to back it off a bit and see if it goes smoothly before turning clockwise to tighten.
Sometimes I take the brass nut off and put a tiny bit of Vaseline in the threads and then put the nut on and begin to tighten.
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I have bought most of my used Peaveys from MGR and have not had a bad one or misgraded one yet. GC on the other hand.............
Super cool color!Should I pull the trigger? Peavey Foundation 2000. I understand the older models may have better pickups. I haven't seen this in person but from the pics look like it's in good condition. Anything I should look for with this particular model.? Asking $300 w/case. As always advice good or bad appreciated.
I learned this from the Rickenbacker rods. They are quite fragile and require assistance/pressure to make adjustments from relieved to straight. I have wrestled them by myself, but often just use assistance from a 2nd set of hands. It only costs an extra beer to get that!
Same. An unmodded bass is quite rare for me, too.
That looks just like my '91, except mine had the body painted with a green edge burst. I learned a lot about fixing those preamps (mainly rebuilding the pots-as they are pretty much unobtainium in the wild) as well as how great warped neck.com delivers. It's a great bass now. It's also a cool historical piece, insomuch as how the early 5 string basses were designed (narrow neck and really narrow string spacing). I have a friend here in town with a 90 Dyna 5 in pearl white. I nudged him (well, shoved him) into buying it. He played it as is for a bit, but changed the bridge to a 3D4 and installed a new nut, converting it to a 4 string. It turned out great, too.
If you click on the "about 2 weeks ago" under the guys name, it should take you to the ad.
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Nope. There's nothing there except what you wrote.
What is it? A link to Facebook maybe?
I don't know if this will be any different, but here's a copy and paste of the fb page:
