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U.S. Peavey Club

#9,022
kodiakblair said:
What do you think about paying $840 for a RW board T40 from 82 ? Comes with the hard shell but bass is showing it's age.
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For your side of the pond prices....with a natural ash body it would need to have a really good grain pattern and be just about perfect. That's about the going rate for pristine sunburst/rw w/case this side. I imagine the next time a burgundy comes up will be over $1000.
 
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#9,028
Groovybanana said:
$840 is way too steep. Maybe if it was absolutely mint, still had the plastic on the pickguards and had the key for the case mint, and the price included shipping. Even then, I think it would be a bit high.
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It don't tick any of those boxes and with courier added it's a healthy $894.24 at today's rates :)
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#9,033
NBD! Well, today I got a new-to-me beauty of a US-made Cirrus 6. It's my first 6-string and I've struggled a bit finding a strap position that makes all the strings reasonably accessible. God only knows which string is what playing so far. The only problems are one chrome Gotoh tuner which I'll replace and a missing truss rod cover. The preamp seems a bit insipid and could use replacing eventually. The wood is magnificant and the assembly is first-rate. All this beauty for the equivalent in yankee dollars of $650. Nice nice!

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#9,034
Hmmm...pickups were way low on the Cirrus. With the active pickups, you can get much closer to the strings without undue pull (and that's a VFP selling point anyway). Moved 'em up and the beastie is now sounding huge, warm and as punchy as can be. I'm not finding the bridge pickup all that useful soloed, but in variable combination with the neck pickup, the range of tones is great.
 
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#9,035
I can try to post a better pic later, but I finally finished my double P Fury project. It's the last gen model that was originally red. I picked it several years ago with a beat up case for $150. I've wanted to get into modifying and building for a while and decided this bass would make a good platform for my first project. It took me about a year to gather all the parts I wanted and courage to actually do it.

I used a heat gun to strip the original finish and then had to sand through the sealer to get down to the bare wood. I stained it with Reranch products. The stain didn't take in some places because of the glue used to hold the body together. I left the original pickup in the middle position and put an Entwistle PBXN at the bridge for some extra definition. I wired it like a 60's jazz with the stacked knobs. Babicz bridge, Grover Titan tuners, Hipshot 3-string retainer, homemade pickguard. I sealed it with Tru-Oil and then took the shine off with some steel wool.

I've been playing it live for about three months, and I love it. It has has kind of a reliced look which is not what I was going for, but I like how it turned out. The last pic makes it look more pink, but it is definitely purple.
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sirsam22 said:
I can try to post a better pic later, but I finally finished my double P Fury project. It's the last gen model that was originally red. I picked it several years ago with a beat up case for $150. I've wanted to get into modifying and building for a while and decided this bass would make a good platform for my first project. It took me about a year to gather all the parts I wanted and courage to actually do it.

I used a heat gun to strip the original finish and then had to sand through the sealer to get down to the bare wood. I stained it with Reranch products. The stain didn't take in some places because of the glue used to hold the body together. I left the original pickup in the middle position and put an Entwistle PBXN at the bridge for some extra definition. I wired it like a 60's jazz with the stacked knobs. Babicz bridge, Grover Titan tuners, Hipshot 3-string retainer, homemade pickguard. I sealed it with Tru-Oil and then took the shine off with some steel wool.

I've been playing it live for about three months, and I love it. It has has kind of a reliced look which is not what I was going for, but I like how it turned out. The last pic makes it look more pink, but it is definitely purple.
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Pretty cool! That's definitely a one of a kind bass. I'm thinking the wood underneath is poplar???
 

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