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U.S. Peavey Club
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I've been wanting to try your conversion. I picked up a Fury a few months back and have been fighting with the neck.
I see the Warhead necks are $265 for roasted maple. I assume the tuners would add $100 to the cost. How much do the nut and frets add? $400 seems a bit high. (I've never dealt with Warmoth or a custom job)
Thanks, Dan
Hopefully, you back it out to the point the truss rod adjustment nut unscrews off and you can replace it with a new one with a known wrench size. This is also a good time to put a smidge of vaseline (or the like) on the truss rod threads, as well as a small washer (or two) around the rod. This should help in getting more adjustment range and easier turning.
There's a bit of confusion regards these later Peaveys.
A 4mm key fits perfect yet Peavey supplied a smaller 5/32th Allen key, being smaller they have a tendency to slip chewing up the TR nut in the process
I don't recall if these 3rd gen Furys had dual action TRs, TR nut is welded with those; makes any removal a problem. If it is dual action, a Torx sometimes gets better purchase than an Allen key.
Can you just back the the barrel nut all the way off and is there room for it to drop out of the black plastic insert they put on them to give it a finished look?
I would guess the barrel nut would just drop out but I've only had Peaveys with the brass Gibson type nut, so I don't know.
If the hole is not large enough, reaming it open should be do-able.
Then a new barrel nut can be put in to replace the chewed up one.
I would guess the barrel nut would just drop out but I've only had Peaveys with the brass Gibson type nut, so I don't know.
If the hole is not large enough, reaming it open should be do-able.
Then a new barrel nut can be put in to replace the chewed up one.
$400 total is about right. It is steeper than pre-pandemic for sure but 32” conversion necks range from $350-750 these days with finish, tuners and nut.
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XSOGOL’S PEAVEY MODS - PART 3 - The Weirdos Revisted
This post is inspired by a convo I’m having with @Green Knight. An update to my Weirdos Mod List from November of '22 so you can see the medium scale Peavey/Warvey madness I have cooking up:
- "T44" - 1978 Peavey T-40 with an Antarctican Burst finish (like Matt Pike's signature Warlord guitar), 1978 T-40 toaster humbucker (no blade) pickups, Great Wave of Kanagawa T-40 pickguard, Maple/Wenge Warmoth Medium Scale Neck, 1978 T-40 (heavy-ass) knobs, Fender Mustang Vintage Bridge (thanks for the idea @Shagnum!) - body will be additionally routed and contoured to reduce weight and make it super playable
- "Stormbringer" - 1993 Peavey Fury (to be painted either matte or satin black), Padouk/Ebony Warmoth Medium Scale neck, , black/red/black pickguard, two G&L MFD humbuckers, G&L passive controls (including OMG mode), black G&L bridge. (see the original post for details...the look is going to remain similar to my vision from then)
- "King Midas" - 1992 Peavey Fury stripped of paint (will be Aztec Gold), Brushed Gold pickguard, Canary Wood/Maple Warmoth Medium Scale Neck with matching Aztec Gold headstock, Neo pickups made by @Matt Kustom TBD (heads up in the not too distant future Matt
) - most likely a reversed P or reversed inline humcancelling Fury slant pickup with Neos and a Neo humcancelling Foundation Super Ferrite in the bridge, gold hardware- "Kallan" - 1986 Peavey Patriot (natural Meranti) with Roasted Maple/Roasted Maple Warmoth Medium Scale Neck (Mahogany Headstock veneer), Aged Pearl Pickguard, Super Ferrites in the Ric neck and bridge positions, EMG GZR P in P Position (reversed). I'm going for the look of Steve DiGiorgio's Walnut Ric here...
- "Yog-Sothoth" - 1989 Dyna-bass (custom "doomy" paint job) with Wenge/Ebony Warmoth Medium Scale Neck, Foundation Super Ferrite in Ric Neck Position, T-40 blade humbucker in Ric Bridge position, and Foundation Super Ferrite in the Foundation Bridge Position
- "Wetton/Turner Overdrive" - 1984 Peavey Patriot (natural Hackberry) with Rosewood/Maple Warmoth Medium Scale Neck with turquoise fretboard dots, Novak T-Bird pickup in the T-Bird neck position, 916 inline humcancelling Super Ferrite pickup in the Foundation bridge position, Tort Patriot Pickguard, flying saucer speed knobs like John Wetton's P bass from his early King Crimson days
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Is that your vinyl collection in the back of the bass?XSOGOL PEAVEY MODS - PART 3 - The Weirdos Revisted
An update to my Weirdos Mod List from November of '22 so you can see the medium scale Peavey/Warvey madness I have cooking up:
- "T44" - 1978 Peavey T-40 with an Antarctican Burst finish (like Matt Pike's signature Warlord guitar), 1978 T-40 toaster humbucker (no blade) pickups, Great Wave of Kanagawa T-40 pickguard, Maple/Wenge Warmoth Medium Scale Neck, 1978 T-40 (heavy-ass) knobs, Fender Mustang Vintage Bridge (thanks for the idea @Shagnum!) - body will be additionally routed and contoured to reduce weight and make it super playable
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- "Stormbringer" - 1993 Peavey Fury (to be painted either matte or satin black), Padouk/Ebony Warmoth Medium Scale neck, , black/red/black pickguard, two G&L MFD humbuckers, G&L passive controls (including OMG mode), black G&L bridge. (see the original post for details...the look is going to remain similar to my vision from then)
- "King Midas" - 1992 Peavey Fury stripped of paint (will be Aztec Gold), Brushed Gold pickguard, Canary Wood/Maple Warmoth Medium Scale Neck with matching Aztec Gold headstock, Neo pickups made by @Matt Kustom TBD (heads up in the not too distant future Matt
- "Kallan" - 1986 Peavey Patriot (natural Meranti) with Roasted Maple/Roasted Maple Warmoth Medium Scale Neck (Mahogany Headstock veneer), Aged Pearl Pickguard, Super Ferrites in the Ric neck and bridge positions, EMG GZR P in P Position (reversed). I'm going for the look of Steve DiGiorgio's Walnut Ric here...
- "Yog-Sothoth" - 1989 Dyna-bass (custom "doomy" paint job) with Wenge/Ebony Warmoth Medium Scale Neck, Foundation Super Ferrite in Ric Neck Position, T-40 blade humbucker in Ric Bridge position, and Foundation Super Ferrite in the Foundation Bridge Position
- "Wetton/Turner Overdrive" - 1984 Peavey Patriot (natural Hackberry) with Rosewood/Maple Warmoth Medium Scale Neck with turquoise fretboard dots, Novak T-Bird pickup in the T-Bird neck position, 916 inline humcancelling Super Ferrite pickup in the Foundation bridge position, Tort Patriot Pickguard, flying saucer speed knobs like John Wetton's P bass from his early King Crimson days
Nah, I think that is Steve Reis’ vinyl collection (guy from Does It Doom and Woodrite Guitars). That said…I do have a decent vinyl collection these days.
Sadly my vinyl collection is pretty much zero. I was one of those idiots that parted with their collection back in the 90's. I had a very nice collection of about 200 albums, some early first issues like Meet the Beatles, Dark Side of the Moon, etc.... and all in near perfect condition. I was one of those that played the vinyl once and put it onto Dbx cassette. I realized I could never replace what I had so I decided to move on and seeing someone's collection brings a tear to my eye still.
Me too.
I topped out at about 2200 record albums.
Started buying when I worked at a music store in 1975 when I was 16 and kept buying them until CD's took over.
At the time, new record albums were costing me $3.65 each.
By the mid/late 80's I had tons of CD's that duplicated the records, so I gave away 300-400 albums to two of my brothers who beat them up and/or lost them.
At one point (maybe 2005) I sold most of the rest to Waterloo Records here in Austin and got about 75 cents to a dollar a piece for them.
Just yesterday I pulled a box of the last of them out and there are about 125 albums left.
Almost all of my records were from the 60's and 70's and some that still remain are Rollings Stones bootlegs and CSN&Y bootlegs and Neil Young bootlegs.
I also still have my working Phillips GA 312 Turntable that I bought when I was 17.
Gonna sell off the rest and sell the turntable as well, I have way too much stuff in this large house/garage/shed and me and my wife are thinking of moving to Greenville SC to retire more cheaply than the now very expensive Austin Texas.
Too many snowboards, bicycles, kites & kiteboards, surfboards, longboard skateboards, mountainboards.
I have kept my CD collection which is around 2000 even though my hard drive contains lots of music that covers a great deal of those CD's.
Hard for an old guy to let go of the CD's and trust that all that music on a hard drive won't die with the hard drive one day.
My daughter has me subscribed to Amazon Music now as well so I'm covered three ways.
I topped out at about 2200 record albums.
Started buying when I worked at a music store in 1975 when I was 16 and kept buying them until CD's took over.
At the time, new record albums were costing me $3.65 each.
By the mid/late 80's I had tons of CD's that duplicated the records, so I gave away 300-400 albums to two of my brothers who beat them up and/or lost them.
At one point (maybe 2005) I sold most of the rest to Waterloo Records here in Austin and got about 75 cents to a dollar a piece for them.
Just yesterday I pulled a box of the last of them out and there are about 125 albums left.
Almost all of my records were from the 60's and 70's and some that still remain are Rollings Stones bootlegs and CSN&Y bootlegs and Neil Young bootlegs.
I also still have my working Phillips GA 312 Turntable that I bought when I was 17.
Gonna sell off the rest and sell the turntable as well, I have way too much stuff in this large house/garage/shed and me and my wife are thinking of moving to Greenville SC to retire more cheaply than the now very expensive Austin Texas.
Too many snowboards, bicycles, kites & kiteboards, surfboards, longboard skateboards, mountainboards.
I have kept my CD collection which is around 2000 even though my hard drive contains lots of music that covers a great deal of those CD's.
Hard for an old guy to let go of the CD's and trust that all that music on a hard drive won't die with the hard drive one day.
My daughter has me subscribed to Amazon Music now as well so I'm covered three ways.
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I agree completely, I definitely don't buy the vinyl sounds better theory.
What is very interesting to me is the death of a good stereo system in most homes.
Almost nobody I visit still has a proper stereo system.
Both of my sisters have husbands with very nice stereo systems in the home, but these are both guys who are even older than me, like 80 and 70.
One of my sisters has a little Bose music player (looks like an old radio) on the kitchen counter and that is the go to device for listening to music.
I often listen to music on earbuds, but my stereo still gets used to get some proper volume when the mood strikes.
In my truck I listen to music that is stored on my phone and Android Auto bluetoothed to my truck stereo system, never listen to radio.
If I'm doing the dishes, my laptop hard drive provides the music source bluetoothed to earbuds.
Earbuds in while outdoors doing errands, cell phone providing the music.
I really don't use Amazon Music streaming that often, my kids use it a lot in their homes.
My wife listens to her Pandora channels through the Amazon Alexa unit when she wants music in the kitchen or her office.
I got her car hooked up with Android Auto for maps and music.
I also subscribe to that vinyl doesn't sound better, it just has a sound that is easy on the ears.
The death of the home stereo is odd. I can understand the extra space needed for a stereo and that it's not portable, but outside that, I can't imagine why one would want to listen to a small bluetooth speaker. My modest and small living room stereo (just a 35WPC Yamaha receiver and pair of Infinity 5" bookshelf) way outperforms any bluetooth speaker. It can actually bump enough for a party.
I don't have a lot of typical albums, mostly DJ vinyl from the 90s and early 00s. I got rid of a lot of my cool records in the late 80s when cassettes were more convenient in the car and CDs were becoming the norm. I then purged a bunch of CDs in the late 90s just to reduce the load of moving them every couple years. Now, what is left of the CDs are copied to a hard drive, and I listen to streams. The vinyl is all by the DJ booth, with the 12" tops and 15" subs, which is the 'big' home stereo, haha.
The death of the home stereo is odd. I can understand the extra space needed for a stereo and that it's not portable, but outside that, I can't imagine why one would want to listen to a small bluetooth speaker. My modest and small living room stereo (just a 35WPC Yamaha receiver and pair of Infinity 5" bookshelf) way outperforms any bluetooth speaker. It can actually bump enough for a party.
I don't have a lot of typical albums, mostly DJ vinyl from the 90s and early 00s. I got rid of a lot of my cool records in the late 80s when cassettes were more convenient in the car and CDs were becoming the norm. I then purged a bunch of CDs in the late 90s just to reduce the load of moving them every couple years. Now, what is left of the CDs are copied to a hard drive, and I listen to streams. The vinyl is all by the DJ booth, with the 12" tops and 15" subs, which is the 'big' home stereo, haha.
I've still got a good amp, preamp, cd player and two way speakers on stands in the living room.
A friend of mine built the speakers in about 1990, they sound better than my brother in law's KEF speakers.
They have an ebony grand piano finish on the boxes and are just two-way speakers with 8" woofers and dome tweeters, he built the boxes and crossovers from scratch.
He has an audio engineering/arts masters from Syracuse University and he built about ten different iterations of a speaker he wanted to sell commercially.
I got the prototype number seven pair so he could have money to make prototype number eight and then called me a year later and told me that number seven was the model that they settled on being the best in their tests.
I have a former brother in law who has a stereo system that he spent $40K on.
I have a buddy here in Austin that spent $20K on his stereo system, he is a nut and fanatical about everything he buys or makes, complete perfectionist.
He's got a $3500 electric longboard skateboard.
Holy crap I can't stop talking today...I very badly need the ADD meds.
Got sucked into the vinyl /audiophile trap... have Dynaco gear here: ST-70, PAS3X, A25s and A50s with a Thorens TT. My kids don't want this stuff at all. It's too bulky and heavy for them, whereas a phone with earbuds will do just fine in producing a 'close enough' soundstage.
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I was seduced by the hifi scene as a young adult, but could never afford anything better than Harman/Kardon and Polk.
And you know what? That stuff was perfectly fine.
I use earbuds today. And a few Apple HomePods. And a pair of studio monitors connected to my Focusrite interface and my Mac Studio.
Slightly back on-topic: I also sometimes use a Peavey USB-P DAC.
And you know what? That stuff was perfectly fine.
I use earbuds today. And a few Apple HomePods. And a pair of studio monitors connected to my Focusrite interface and my Mac Studio.
Slightly back on-topic: I also sometimes use a Peavey USB-P DAC.
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I find I'm listening to vinyl more often. 20-25 minutes for a side, then get up and flip it over or change it. The rhythm of that just works for me, and I find it more relaxing than putting on a 70-80 minute CD or a playlist that could go on for days without intervention.
