Hi PeaveyPlayer! Yes I believe the pickup's are stock. They have a a aged look to them but I was able to get them cleaned up and it's sounding good.
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I have a Peavey 400 Series Musician and a Big Game F800B pedal. I also plan on getting a Peavey bass at some point. As much as I would love to get a T40, I'm struggling with the amounts of money most are charging. So I started thinking I'm going to get a Foundation or a Patriot. Those all look very nice too. What do you guys think??
I have a Peavey 400 Series Musician and a Big Game F800B pedal. I also plan on getting a Peavey bass at some point. As much as I would love to get a T40, I'm struggling with the amounts of money most are charging. So I started thinking I'm going to get a Foundation or a Patriot. Those all look very nice too. What do you guys think??
Hi Greg...I can't give you a member number without a bass but you're welcome to hang around and we will certainly help you out to find what you are looking for.
Foundations and Patriots both great basses. Foundations are sort of the Jazz bass of the Peavey family. I prefer the earlier ones with the Super Ferrite pickups but many others like the later versions with VFL's also. Earlier ones have more quality hardware but they are both well made basses. There are lots of used foundations around as they were one of Peavey's most popular basses of the time. The Patriots were made over a shorter time span and only came with a single Super Ferrite in an approximate P bass position. There is a lot of love for them here but they are harder to find. You will definitely find both of them cheaper than a T-40 as well. And they are way lighter, my foundation is 8.7 lbs.
EDIT: the one in the pic above your post is an earlier model Foundation with the heavier "trapezoidal" bridge, super ferrites and early (desirable) knobs
Great!! Thanks so much for the advice and direction man. I will have a Peavey bass soon enough. I think the foundation will be the one I go after. With the Ferite pups. Those seem to be the ones I'm wanting. Weight never bothered me much as my main player is an ibanes ATK300 from the early 90s. I think it weights about 12 lbs or so. It would be nice to find a lighter bass though. I have others as well but I'm hoping the Peavey may fill in at times with my band over the ATK. Thanks again!! I'll be amongst your ranks soon I hope!!
I forgot to mention... I'm building a FrankenFoundation bass and need a neck for it. Anyone got anything laying around that would work???
I should probably sign up now. I owned a fury for a while in the mid 90s, got it for $100 from someone I knew, sold it a couple years later for about the same (GC wanted to give me $40 for it).
Recently snagged an abused mid 90s (I presume, possibly more recent) foundation with vfrs and the same bridge that my fury had. Shortly after I picked up a milestone II from GC. 2 peaveys in the same week, for the same price I sold the fury for.
It has block logo and serial starts with 1008**** anyone know what year that is?
It was a bit of a nightmare to set up because the truss rod was min'd out after 1/4 turn and I still needed more relief, but after a couple days of back and forth and swapping for a set with 70-50 D-G and then taking a day off of playing, I was able to get the action decent enough without fret buzz. There are some bad spots on the pots where it makes a loud crackle (and my deoxit is lost in a stack of boxes in storage), and the pickup screws are practically frozen and I had a screwdriver slip/skip in one of them, but otherwise I really dig it. I would like the neck pickup a tad lower, but it still sounds pretty cool. Details are in the thread "peavey foundation, later with soapbars?"
I would like to try one with ferrites, or a patriot, and I wouldn't mind having one of the thin neck furys again. I'm on the fence about possibly selling my SR500 to have a little budget to play with, but the fact that it is the wenge/bubinga neck version, goes well with my past Warwick habit and it serves as a suitable backup for my 4 string FNA. The milestone is a backup for my fender USA P and the foundation is close enough for the purposes of a backup to my USA jazz, though it has a tone of its own and seems more aggressive. Perhaps the SF version is closer to a jazz sound? I have yet to come across one.
By the way, this particular foundation is heavy, I wouldn't be surpised if it was in the 12# range. I would accept a # if it was given.
Recently snagged an abused mid 90s (I presume, possibly more recent) foundation with vfrs and the same bridge that my fury had. Shortly after I picked up a milestone II from GC. 2 peaveys in the same week, for the same price I sold the fury for.
It has block logo and serial starts with 1008**** anyone know what year that is?
It was a bit of a nightmare to set up because the truss rod was min'd out after 1/4 turn and I still needed more relief, but after a couple days of back and forth and swapping for a set with 70-50 D-G and then taking a day off of playing, I was able to get the action decent enough without fret buzz. There are some bad spots on the pots where it makes a loud crackle (and my deoxit is lost in a stack of boxes in storage), and the pickup screws are practically frozen and I had a screwdriver slip/skip in one of them, but otherwise I really dig it. I would like the neck pickup a tad lower, but it still sounds pretty cool. Details are in the thread "peavey foundation, later with soapbars?"
I would like to try one with ferrites, or a patriot, and I wouldn't mind having one of the thin neck furys again. I'm on the fence about possibly selling my SR500 to have a little budget to play with, but the fact that it is the wenge/bubinga neck version, goes well with my past Warwick habit and it serves as a suitable backup for my 4 string FNA. The milestone is a backup for my fender USA P and the foundation is close enough for the purposes of a backup to my USA jazz, though it has a tone of its own and seems more aggressive. Perhaps the SF version is closer to a jazz sound? I have yet to come across one.
By the way, this particular foundation is heavy, I wouldn't be surpised if it was in the 12# range. I would accept a # if it was given.
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Got the Gibson truss rod tool yesterday. That thing just barely reaches but I got a little bit of relief out of the neck. A small amount of tilt and then some fiddling with the saddles and I have playable bass. I'd like to flatten the neck just a skosh more but I think I need to find a real thin-wall 5/16 socket.
Next up is to pull it apart and clean it up. It is a filthy mess.
The bass has a very nice and articulate tone compared to the thumpy P-tone that I am used to. I can get that barky jazz thing on the bridge pup which is cool.
Question: What is the radius on the fretboard? (1984 Foundation) All of my Fenders are 7.25 .
Next up is to pull it apart and clean it up. It is a filthy mess.
The bass has a very nice and articulate tone compared to the thumpy P-tone that I am used to. I can get that barky jazz thing on the bridge pup which is cool.
Question: What is the radius on the fretboard? (1984 Foundation) All of my Fenders are 7.25 .
Thanks. I have to say I am quite impressed with the milestone II as well, it is very solid and has a good resonance and feel, but only the foundation, and the fury I have not owned for almost 20 years qualify as USA. Will keep my eyes open for more of them for sure.
Do most fury owners upgrade the pickup? Pots? The milestone sounds pretty good, but I am likely to put an SPB-3 I have into it, and a CTS harness that is currently in a bass I want to put a preamp in, will likely move to the milestone as well. The milestone electronics will move to my cut up first bass squier II fretless abandoned project, or just the pickup if the pots are of similar quality. Waste not!
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I would say no. The Fury pups are pretty darn good actually. They are typically wound hotter than a Fender p pup. If you are a real "dig in" player you could find them too boomy. If you want to though, I would say go for it. I've thought of putting Geezers in mine and I might do it some day.
Well I don't own a fury again, yet. I did notice that the milestone II was a little louder than my fender, but the fender had more lows. Of course the flats on the fender vs the rounds on the peavey could be the reason. The next time it was milestone and foundation and the foundation was even louder. Hence i would like to lower the pickup (but will have to do surgery).
Are the import series p pickups in the milestone II the same as the fury? I am assuming they are more like comparing squier to fender pickups ie a cheaper Asian pickup/pots used in the import vs USA
And I am a dig in player
Zactly.....action is not the function of the truss rod. Proper relief can allow for your desired action but how low or high your action can be set is more a function of saddle height and neck angle. Of the 3 Millenniums, 2 G-Basses, and a G5 that I own, all but 1 Milli and 1 G-Bass have had to use shims or neck tilt to achieve the lowest action possible without bottoming the saddles. FWIW - I prefer to shim rather than use the tilt feature.
I had to mess with the tilt on my foundation. Raise the saddles, then bring the neck up to meet them. I was trying to tame some serious buzz. Eventually the relief came to the neck and I was able to bring the saddles down. So I had to deal with all 3 parameters, but mine also ran out of rod when I still needed more relief. Leaving it alone for a.day after 2 solid nights of back and forth tweaking, helped in the case of my neck relief.
Needing more relief means that it needed more bow. The rod will usually run out when taking out relief, making the neck flatter. Is that what you meant?
Have a question (TL,DNR) thru thread:
Bought a craigslist/flea market 'Peavey' a while back, has a Peavey neck, but most of the decal had been scratched/scraped off and it has a rosewood fretboard. Would that be from a Forum? Not 24 frets-21 I think.
'P' style. Body is multi-layer veneers (very hard, no voids, looks like high preasure laminated)- did any Peaveys ever come with this type of body construction?
Bass now has 3 P pickups, weighs about 10# with that strudy, heavy body, plays nice, still fine-tuning things.
Bought a craigslist/flea market 'Peavey' a while back, has a Peavey neck, but most of the decal had been scratched/scraped off and it has a rosewood fretboard. Would that be from a Forum? Not 24 frets-21 I think.
'P' style. Body is multi-layer veneers (very hard, no voids, looks like high preasure laminated)- did any Peaveys ever come with this type of body construction?
Bass now has 3 P pickups, weighs about 10# with that strudy, heavy body, plays nice, still fine-tuning things.
I'd say no, not a USA body anyways. They were always solid hardwood. I'm not sure about the later imports.
No I was.loosening the truss rod to add more relief and the range of adjustment ended and the nut was spinning really.easy. hence I used the term min'd out rather than maxxed out. I had to swap for a set with a little more tension, and also waiting a day helped.
Dang....I've never had that problem before. I probably would have tried higher tension strings too.
