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U.S. Peavey Club

#14,422
Anybody else see the blue T-40 priced at $1,150 ($1,220 shipped) on reverb? Looks like he rattle-canned the body without even sealing the grain. Says it’s a mahogany body he got from Peavey. It’s missing about $130 in original hardware and the bridge looks pretty bad too. If I wanted a project, I’d offer $300 shipped. SMH
 
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JEDI BASS said:
Says it’s a mahogany body he got from Peavey.
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Peavey recently sold a few unpainted mahogany bodies. I got one and it's been clear coated.
Also got a black T-40 bridge.

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KeyBoneSax said:
Is it common for natural finish Foundations to appear as if there are cobbled together from multiple pieces of wood? Aesthetics aside, does this really affect tone very much?
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All Foundations are multiple pieces of wood, it's just the natural ones that make it the various wood grain and patterns obvious. Peavey didn't necessarily match their body pieces extremely well on basses of this level--I have seen maple Peavey bodies with a flamey piece juxtaposed with a couple plain pieces.
Tonally, it makes no difference what the body looks like, the density of the wood influences the primary tone.
 
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bigtone23 said:
All Foundations are multiple pieces of wood, it's just the natural ones that make it the various wood grain and patterns obvious. Peavey didn't necessarily match their body pieces extremely well on basses of this level--I have seen maple Peavey bodies with a flamey piece juxtaposed with a couple plain pieces.
Tonally, it makes no difference what the body looks like, the density of the wood influences the primary tone.
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Good to know. Does this one look like Ash? They wouldn't make one from Oak would they?
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Yeah, prolly, but I wouldn't have called anyone a liar if they'd said it was oak, that seriously looks like it could be. And though I've never heard of any oak bodies, I've been in a friendly pissing match over on Squier Talk about pine bodies, and if they'll use a crappy wood like pine, and can't imagine why (other than weight) they wouldn't use oak.
Well hell, I probably just went and started another pissing match about pine bodies !! :D
 
#14,432
Like Lee said, that Foundation is Ash.

I've seen nice matches on some of the Ash, Mahogany and Koa Peavey basses with clear and trans finishes...and some that are not great matches.
T40's, T45's, T20's, First Gen Furys, Patriots, RSB's, Dyna Unity, Unity.
The later, higher end USA Peaveys are a whole other story, I think some of them have really very, very nice wood combinations and finishes.
 
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That Dyna is about as maxed out as they get... has just about every alacarte upgrade they made available.

Whoever ordered it gulped when they paid for it and then waited like 3 or 4 months for the build.

As a reference... in 1987, the notiated price for a rosewood mahogany foundation without case was $225 (in 1988 dollars - not inflation adjusted)
 
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MNAirHead said:
That Dyna is about as maxed out as they get... has just about every alacarte upgrade they made available.

Whoever ordered it gulped when they paid for it and then waited like 3 or 4 months for the build.

As a reference... in 1987, the notiated price for a rosewood mahogany foundation without case was $225 (in 1988 dollars - not inflation adjusted)
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That's interesting to know. I'm not sure if they got a case with it. That case actually came with my Foundation but since the Dyna is in a lot better shape I figured I would store it in it.
 

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