U.S. Peavey Club

[SturmUndDrang]

Love Hipshot customer service....one of the best.

Speaking of Hipshot extenders, their GB7 extender should fit a MM J Millennium with the mini tuners right?
Also wondering if people here think there's a chance Peavey might bring bass manufacturing back to the U.S. in the future.

 

[DavidEdenAria]

My 92 Foundation with SF's is 8.4 lbs.
The 1995 owners manual says the body is alder and that would cover your time frame of late 90's.

The earlier bodies were maple or ash depending on whether they were painted or not, painted ones being maple. That info is from the 1983 manual. I don't know if that lasted all the way through until '95 or if there were other changes. I know the late 90's Fury's were poplar bodies but my 1998 Fury is the same weight as my Foundation and since it is the same body contour who knows if Peavey interchanged them based on wood availability.

I thought there was poplar and mahogany in the 80's as well.

 

[DavidEdenAria]

Were the 90's Peavey strings red silk at the tuners and no silks at the bridge?

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

Were the 90's Peavey strings red silk at the tuners and no silks at the bridge?

That sounds like rotosound to me

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

So I emailed peavey about how to "oil" the board on my Birdseye maple cirrus and they told me to use lemon oil

That didn't seem right to me though

 

[Tdub77]

So I emailed peavey about how to "oil" the board on my Birdseye maple cirrus and they told me to use lemon oil

That didn't seem right to me though

What material is the finger board?
I generally recommend and use this myself
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[PeaveyPlayer]

Birdseye maple fretboard and neck


I went out and bought planet waves Lemmon oil

 

[Tdub77]

Birdseye maple fretboard and neck


I went out and bought planet waves Lemmon oil

That's fine many people like lemon oil. The one comment I have is the slightly higher acidity of lemon oil. It's great fro cleaning but not as great for the wood over a life time. Your call...

 

[DavidEdenAria]

That sounds like rotosound to me

I've been seeing the same color of silks (red at the tuners only) on many Peavey Basses thru the years.....USA basses that is.

 

[ubernator]

I run 40 - 120 stainless steels on another bass and its still got more mids than the Axcel. I noticed on some other videos the VFLs tend to sound like that.There was a comparisom of the VFL loaded Cirrus and a J/J loaded Millenium and I preferred the latter..guess I'm just used to the heavy mid range growl of J/J and P/J pickup.

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Still try different strings. The string type makes a bigger different than the guage, the other bass with stainless steel has different strings, try the steels with the VFLs, I have had good punchy sound with blue steels on my foundation with VFLs. Different basses, different strings...

That sounds like rotosound to me

Rotosound has red silks at the ball ends too, ghs boomers have red silk but not on the ball ends for instance. I can't vouch for peavey strings, all my Peavey's were used, but one did come with red silks at both ends, stainless, I assumed they were rotos. It was a milestone II, so not usa

 

[Cliff Bordwell]

Birdseye maple fretboard and neck


I went out and bought planet waves Lemmon oil

You might want to give Howard's feed-n-wax a try.

 

[kodiakblair]

You might want to give Howard's feed-n-wax a try.

Cliff. Good shout,lemon oil won't really penetrate the maple deeply so a wax is a better idea.

 

[9mmMike]

Hipshot D tuner broke on my randy jackson

hipshot said they would repair it

Hipshot is an amazing company. Never seen anyone more customer-focused. Great guys!

 

[58kites]

That's fine many people like lemon oil. The one comment I have is the slightly higher acidity of lemon oil. It's great fro cleaning but not as great for the wood over a life time. Your call...

These "Lemon Oil" products are mineral oil with artificial lemon fragrance.

 

[Tdub77]

These "Lemon Oil" products are mineral oil with artificial lemon fragrance.

I wouldn't use mineral oil either

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

These "Lemon Oil" products are mineral oil with artificial lemon fragrance.

I wouldn't use mineral oil either

Cliff. Good shout,lemon oil won't really penetrate the maple deeply so a wax is a better idea.

I ended up using the Lemmon oil
It Cleaned up nicely

back of the neck feels faster now as well

 

[PeaveyPlayer]

I appplied the planet waves onto a microfiber then rubbed it in

Buffing it right away

 

[58kites]

I wouldn't use mineral oil either

Linseed oil is what I use on dry looking rosewood fretboards, but only if they clearly need it, and that is not very often.
I find that with maple/maple necks, a quick wipe with a clean dry cloth after playing keeps the neck clean without doing anything else.
Most maple fretboards have a finish (or they should) so a warm damp cloth can be used if they ever did have any funk on them, no point in using oil or wax products.
My maple/maple necks are more stable with weather temperature changes than my one maple/rosewood neck , so my preference is leaning more and more towards maple fretboards over rosewood.

 

[DavidEdenAria]

Still try different strings. The string type makes a bigger different than the guage, the other bass with stainless steel has different strings, try the steels with the VFLs, I have had good punchy sound with blue steels on my foundation with VFLs. Different basses, different strings...


Rotosound has red silks at the ball ends too, ghs boomers have red silk but not on the ball ends for instance. I can't vouch for peavey strings, all my Peavey's were used, but one did come with red silks at both ends, stainless, I assumed they were rotos. It was a milestone II, so not usa

I think Peavey strings have red silks at the tuner end only.....this is my observation from back in the day when Peavey basses were everywhere here in the Midwest USA, late 70's thru 90's.

I still have one of these "supposedly Peavey string sets" on my 90's Foundation 5 black on maple.

 

[Timm Grimm]

Just got this Fury. Considering adding a jazz bridge pickup.

Coincidently, the strings have black ends. I have no way of knowing if they are original.