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U.S. Peavey Club
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That's doing two things:
1. Factory installed shim
2. Being sandpaper, it's higher friction compared to plain paper or yardstick holds the neck in place better.
The extra holes are there from the finishing and manufacturing.
I don't know what's up with the extra holes, but the sandpaper that is stapled in there is acting as a shim. It's tilting the nut back away from the body so that the strings are closer to the frets. This can be used to correct a bow in the neck or just make an adjustment that allows for lower string action.
Thanks. I was the one who posted the pic. I personally think it's factory. I googled this and other PEavey necks have the same exact thing in the same place.
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I think factory, all the Peavey's I've pulled apart or had worked on has had the sandpaper...
There was a very thin plastic washer painted the same color as the finish, but I had taken it out before I took the pic. I don't plan on using the micro tilt so no biggie.
That's been my experience too.
Holy Smokes !!
Originally the disc was to be a coin but that was too expensive for Hartley so a cheap disc went in. Hope that plastic chip wasn't factory or Hartley's worse a miser than I thought
Sandpaper or a piece of screen was a common fix for the side to side neck shift in bolt neck instruments, Peavey had the foresight to do it from the factory.
@kodiakblair Hartley was indeed frugal but IIRC that part was a metal disc not a coin
@kodiakblair Hartley was indeed frugal but IIRC that part was a metal disc not a coin
Yes, I use an American Penny. It fits perfectly.
According to old Chip T, Hartley vetoed the coin idea.
@PVt40man finding "plastic washer painted the same color as the finish" is odd. Random piece of plastic would suggest a previous owner lost the original disc but 'colour coordinated plastic' ? That's taking ad hoc replacement a tad far wouldn't you say ?
It was paper thin, almost more like paper than plastic but yes, it was the exact color of the finish which is weird. I don't use micro tilt anyway so no biggie.
Don't understand the location of the sandpaper...
with it being close to the front mounting screws, that would tend to shim the neck in the wrong direction....?
I would remove the sandpaper and put in a .020 thick shim to allow for the huge saddles that come stock on the trapezoidal Peavey bridge on the Gen 1 Fury basses.
Or I would replace the huge saddles with brass saddles off a Wilkinson vintage bridge.
I also do not use the micro-tilt.
with it being close to the front mounting screws, that would tend to shim the neck in the wrong direction....?
I would remove the sandpaper and put in a .020 thick shim to allow for the huge saddles that come stock on the trapezoidal Peavey bridge on the Gen 1 Fury basses.
Or I would replace the huge saddles with brass saddles off a Wilkinson vintage bridge.
I also do not use the micro-tilt.
I really like the sound of a split P pickup but the Slant Fury pickup wins for me as well.
Four votes for Gen 1 and one for the Gen 2/3.
It's a pretty tall order to design a pickup that sounds as good or better than the most popular bass pickup in the world, and I think Peavey did it with the T20/Gen 1 Fury pickup.
I wonder what made Hartley decide to follow convention and put a split P pickup in the Gen 2 & 3 Fury basses?
I also wonder if Fury sales went up when he caved to convention for the Gen 2 & 3 Furys.
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I always assumed the sandpaper was to keep the neck from shifting in the pocket. I always remove it and the staples, since i can’t imagine it making the contact or fitment any better.
The $ , both coming in and out.
Look at the construction of those things.
Moving to a regular split-P allowed Peavey to source from various places and at cheaper prices.
Another factor is visuals. For all musicians like to think they are progressive creative types , they actually very conservative when it comes to instruments. Telecasters are the biggest seller at Sam Ash, for Sweetwater it's Les Pauls.
T-20/1st gen Fury just didn't look close enough to Fender shaped objects, you can bet that hurt sales. T-20 was 1982, gone by 1984; 1st gen Fury 1984 to 1986; split-P Furys were in production nearly 12 years.
