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U.S. Peavey Club

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Also for anyone restoring Peaveys, in addition to the couple of super ferrite pickups up on ebay right now I see at least 2 sets of T-40 pickups, one pair of blade and 2 toaster style.

Public service announcement if you will :D Finding parts for these basses can be a royal pain in the arse, I know from experience just trying to get the word out.
 
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RandyMolson said:
I recently finished my refurb of a 94 Peavey fretless Fury:
> Made a tort pickguard and TRC
> Replaced hacked up headstock label with an earlier version that I like
> Rewired and shielded electronics
> Epoxied fingerboard
> Tru-Oiled neck

Thought a few people would be interested. A couple pics follow but there are a few more before-after pics in this project tread:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/epoxied-torted-fury-752375/

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That's gorgeous. :) I love that color scheme (vintage white body plus tort pickguard works really well, imo) and the script style headstock logo. I'm debating a new pickguard for mine but I'll have to think it over. The black body/white pickguard/maple board combo is so done to death that some people are sick of it and bored with it but I always like the classics.

If I do get a new pickguard, does anyone have recommendations as to where to get them from? WD Music will cut one for you if you send them a tracing, right?
 
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nocontrols said:
That's gorgeous. :) I love that color scheme (vintage white body plus tort pickguard works really well, imo) and the script style headstock logo. I'm debating a new pickguard for mine but I'll have to think it over. The black body/white pickguard/maple board combo is so done to death that some people are sick of it and bored with it but I always like the classics.

If I do get a new pickguard, does anyone have recommendations as to where to get them from? WD Music will cut one for you if you send them a tracing, right?
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Apologies to posting this to the Peavey thread :hiding: but FYI here is a black bodied Squire which I replaced the ho-hum white PG with a red tort PG. I am not a big fan of primary colors on a bass, but I thought that the black pattern in the PG worked nicely with the black body.

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For this project, I ordered a cut PG from somewhere, but it was not an exact fit to the year/model and took a lot of extra body work to make it fit. I decided after that it is easier and less tramatic to the body to cut my own PGs from blanks.

For plastic (solid or printed) blanks, Grizzly.com has nice pricing and shipping speed. You can get enough printed tort blank to do two full size PGs for $23 shipped! Down side to cutting from blanks is it takes a steady hand and few power tools that not everybody owns.

Check axinc.net if you are pricing genuine celluloid nitrate blanks, and I see wdmusic.com has them too.
 
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I bought it along with the blue one in this pic and a Kimberly beatle bass from a guy when I bought a 73 Harley from him. He was retiring and moving to west va from md. I got the peavey for 100. I got the other 2 for 60 each. I build custom motorcycles and was sending a tank and fender to an awesome painter in Wisconsin (blue moon kustoms). I asked him about throwing in a bass body. He gave me a price and off it went.

I told him to do whatever he wanted to it. I chose the peavey because it has the hardshell case to protect it, plays great, and actually has probably less collector value than my others.

When I got it back, I brought it to Mike Forrester (luthier) and he cut a new nut, made the pearloid pickguard and truss cover, and set it up perfect. It's my main bass now! I am in a punk/grunge trio called Soulful Aggression. We just recorded our 1st CD and I used the peavey in the studio. I think it came out real nice.

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As a fellow patriot owner I gotta say that your bass is sharp! You have given a lot of attention to a bass which probably doesn't see a lot of custom work. It's such a sleek bass that the embellishment really pop out. The pinstriping is hot. Very cool IMO.

How does it compare to your others basses? It is my only bass so I'm curious to hear more opinions on them.
 
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RandyMolson said:
Apologies to posting this to the Peavey thread :hiding: but FYI here is a black bodied Squire which I replaced the ho-hum white PG with a red tort PG. I am not a big fan of primary colors on a bass, but I thought that the black pattern in the PG worked nicely with the black body.

squire.pbass.bt.front.jpg


For this project, I ordered a cut PG from somewhere, but it was not an exact fit to the year/model and took a lot of extra body work to make it fit. I decided after that it is easier and less tramatic to the body to cut my own PGs from blanks.

For plastic (solid or printed) blanks, Grizzly.com has nice pricing and shipping speed. You can get enough printed tort blank to do two full size PGs for $23 shipped! Down side to cutting from blanks is it takes a steady hand and few power tools that not everybody owns.

Check axinc.net if you are pricing genuine celluloid nitrate blanks, and I see wdmusic.com has them too.
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Hey, thanks! :) No harm posting a Squier here... it's pertinent to the conversation. I love that bass! I know some people like tort on sunburst but I think it works best on solid black or solid white. That's just my opinion. A solid black bass with a tort pickguard is truly lovely. Congrats.

Cutting a PG is doable. I don't have the power tools but I definitely know people who do (my granddad has a fully stocked home repair workshop in his basement so anything from a bandsaw to a metal lathe is handy there). And I took shop in high school so I suspect I could do it but it might be tricky... I'll have to think it over. Assuming I do get or cut a new PG, it wouldn't be for a while but I'd post results if I did. Thanks also for the axinc.net recommendation as I haven't checked them out yet.
 
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XsSpeed said:
I bought it along with the blue one in this pic and a Kimberly beatle bass from a guy when I bought a 73 Harley from him. He was retiring and moving to west va from md. I got the peavey for 100. I got the other 2 for 60 each. I build custom motorcycles and was sending a tank and fender to an awesome painter in Wisconsin (blue moon kustoms). I asked him about throwing in a bass body. He gave me a price and off it went.

I told him to do whatever he wanted to it. I chose the peavey because it has the hardshell case to protect it, plays great, and actually has probably less collector value than my others.

When I got it back, I brought it to Mike Forrester (luthier) and he cut a new nut, made the pearloid pickguard and truss cover, and set it up perfect. It's my main bass now! I am in a punk/grunge trio called Soulful Aggression. We just recorded our 1st CD and I used the peavey in the studio. I think it came out real nice.
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Thats great! It's funny because the first thing I thought of when I saw the paintjob was "wow the way that's painted is just like you'd see on a custom chopper" guess I wasn't too far off :D
 
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nocontrols said:
Cutting a PG is doable. I don't have the power tools but I definitely know people who do (my granddad has a fully stocked home repair workshop in his basement so anything from a bandsaw to a metal lathe is handy there). And I took shop in high school so I suspect I could do it but it might be tricky... I'll have to think it over. Assuming I do get or cut a new PG, it wouldn't be for a while but I'd post results if I did. Thanks also for the axinc.net recommendation as I haven't checked them out yet.
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Scroll saw makes it nice and easy, then a bench grinder to smooth the edges, then bevel a 45-deg angle with the bench grinder. I also use hand files, dremel and a sharp blade to dress up the tight cutouts. You should go for it! :D
 
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Ah yeah, I restored a Cort and had them do the pickguard, fortunately this was before they made the "for Corts you have to send us the original guard so we can match it" rule, since I didn't have the pickguard in the first place!

I had to do a little work with a small file to make the neck joint and pickup route perfect, but overall it was a really good pickguard, and for $45 for a custom made guard, its barely more than you'd pay at places that only sell stock fender replacement pickguards.

The wait was the real kicker, but seeing as it's next to impossible to get some of the pickguards they have templates for, and I'm yet to hear of another place that makes better product for the same price.
 
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Basstovsky said:
Ah yeah, I restored a Cort and had them do the pickguard, fortunately this was before they made the "for Corts you have to send us the original guard so we can match it" rule, since I didn't have the pickguard in the first place!

I had to do a little work with a small file to make the neck joint and pickup route perfect, but overall it was a really good pickguard, and for $45 for a custom made guard, its barely more than you'd pay at places that only sell stock fender replacement pickguards.

The wait was the real kicker, but seeing as it's next to impossible to get some of the pickguards they have templates for, and I'm yet to hear of another place that makes better product for the same price.
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I received 2 of them (the gold and a tri lam) since both were productions they were almost "too tight" ... they were better than the factory.
 

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