So I wound up getting that beeeeeeaaaaatttt up ebay 93 fury from that pawn shop. It was way more beat up in person, the neck has some serious rash on the back, and the tuners are corroded but still work fine. Took the PG off very carefully because it is cracked at the input, but there was a washer underneath which seems to be holding it together, but I might have to get a new PG, or maybe just the input, because it cuts out when jiggled, but otherwise the tone pot is just a little scratchy, it plays fine. There were thick black and white wires coming from the pickup, so it was not the cheaper Korean pickup like the later fury, and it had full sized pots. The shop was closing soon so I didn't unscrew the pickups nor fuss about the truss rod. Being the older style LP socket type I knew stripping wasn't as likely as it is on the 4mm hex but ones, of which I have had 2 Asian basses with issues, ibanez and epiphone, the latest being a China bird I just got recently and am trying to decide if I should tell the seller, or just hope a stewmac gripper is enough for that. It is a BiFlex so the but can't be replaced
(bird not peavey)
When I noticed that it was the older style 2 piece neck with no board, I got more confident about the likely stability of this neck. It has the same / similar profile as my post 94 foundation, so not a chunkier D neck. It had a decent low action, lower than I usually have my basses, but it had OLD dead flats, rotos I assume due to bright red silks at both ends, so I could not get an idea of the neck buzz. This was the one nobody was bidding on on eBay at $99.95 + shipping and had been relisted a few times. He wouldn't go lower than $80 initially, of course I started low because this thing is BEAT, he wouldn't meet in the middle from fiddy, but we settled on a price around $75. At this point I just wanted my fury search to be over, and I liked the neck profile and construction, it is a solid yet skinny neck.
This might be a refin, either that or the finish was exposed to some elements that made it soft, and it has 2 layers of black, but my foundation has 2 layers of red so it could be original. I did not buy this to flip it, I wanted a player.
There is a GC on the way back, and I wanted to pick up another roadrunner gig bag (fits a bird) and order the basslines preamp for my OLP. So first I take the fury into the bass room and plug into a rumble 500 and start grooving, I like this thing, fat thick tone, but these strings are dead dead. I wanted to AB the overall level with a p bass, but it took a while for me to put it down. A white MIM was staring me in the face, so I finally picked it up, and it was much louder, but I figured the strings had to do with that, and/or the fact that some Mex pickups are on the hot side. Actually, it was one of the nicest p bass I had played, perfect setup, killer neck feel, bright crunchy strings, and I just went to town on it for a while, I wish I had $600 to blow, I would have taken it home, but this is getting off topic.
I get home and put an old set of american flyers(markley I believe, the ones that had the "wound at pitch tension" gimmick) that were still shiny and had been in the DNA for a few days recently. OK, the fury came alive! It had some buzz, and I forgot to try to pick up an LP wrench at GC, so I just raised the saddles a tad, still buzzes, but not very bad on most strings. There is some relief, but I want to add a tad more.
Compared to my milestone II with QP, the fury had a tad less bottom and output, but punchier mids and more snap on top (could be strings, the MSII has old cleaned RS66 that have a few jams on them since they came out of the DNA, and steel does tend to be a little louder magnetically).
Compared to the foundation. With similar (to ms) time since cleaning on a set of blue steels, the levels were comparable, a tad more low on the foundation, but the fury mids cut right through. I wont know till practice thursday night, how well they play with each other as #1/2 for this band, but I have high hopes they will. Hard to tell with ear buds, and no second opinions.
Now I just have to find (or buy more) my de-oxit to hit up the pots and input, get some decent knobs, since it came with tiny cheap plastic knobs from something like a mixer or effects pedal. What did a transition period fury come with for knobs?
Will need a new pickguard sooner than later, and some non corroded tuners would be nice but no rush because these at least work well. Other than that, this is a player I quickly bonded with, and I plan on gigging it at the end of the month. Thursday practice cant come soon enough.
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Good news is that was enough to hook the Roland unit up 
