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U.S. Peavey Club

#14,822
bigtone23 said:
Yeah, finding a T40 PU is a trick. I patiently waited until one popped up. The catch was that it had no PU ring or mounting screws, just the pickup and springs. Frets On The Net had the other parts.
If your string spacing is narrow enough, there are lots of T60 pickups out there. Straight from the mouth and mind of Chip Todd... He said that the T60 pickups sound way better than the T40 pickups. When he put those in little Peavey basses, they sounded better than T40 pickups. Regrets About the T-40
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#14,822
bigtone23 said:
Yeah, finding a T40 PU is a trick. I patiently waited until one popped up. The catch was that it had no PU ring or mounting screws, just the pickup and springs. Frets On The Net had the other parts.
If your string spacing is narrow enough, there are lots of T60 pickups out there. Straight from the mouth and mind of Chip Todd... He said that the T60 pickups sound way better than the T40 pickups. When he put those in little Peavey basses, they sounded better than T40 pickups. Regrets About the T-40
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THIS is why we love TB. Gems like this info.
 
#14,827
I think the overall width of the T60 pickup is about 3" and the blades about 2.5". They are pretty standard guitar humbucker sized, much like a standard Gibson sized humbucker. For a 3 string bass with about 60-65mm of string width at the bridge, I imagine they would be perfect!
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#14,828
bigtone23 said:
I think the overall width of the T60 pickup is about 3" and the blades about 2.5". They are pretty standard guitar humbucker sized, much like a standard Gibson sized humbucker. For a 3 string bass with about 60-65mm of string width at the bridge, I imagine they would be perfect!
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Huh. The blade of a T-45 pickup is 2.5", the bobbin is 3" and the shell is 3.25". I wonder if you could make a T-60 pickup work on a skinny full-size bass, like maybe some of the Ibanez SR series.
 
#14,830
I measured my T40 blade pickup. 3 3/16" 80mm wide. Bars are 2 7/16" 62mm wide. The E-G string spacing is about 2" 52mm at the base of the neck and 2 1/4" 57mm right at the saddles. I assume the T60 pickup is pretty much the same as a standard guitar humbucker, as I have seen replacements in T60s. Most guitar humbuckers are about 2 5/16" 67mm wide at the bobbin and just shy of 2" 50mm pole piece spacing or just a hair over 2" 52mm on F or bridge spaced pickups.

FWIW, there are 4 Toaster T40 pickups on ebay right now!
Also a few T60 pickups. Not affiliated, just passing along the info...
 
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#14,833
ATLbassist said:
Is the green one in the back a stock color? I'm going to refinish a Super Ferrite Fury this winter and would love that shade.
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58kites said:
Peavey made Forum Plus (active P+J) basses in that color, 1993 I think.
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Yep! It was the color (and ridiculous price) that prompted me to buy the bass off ebay. 94 Forum Plus. Wanted a passive P/J, and this was most certainly the platform since green is my favorite color. Not sure what the color is called by Peavey, but it's not quite as dark as my Ibanez Forest Green Metallic, but not as bright as Emerald Metallic. I used to have a Generation that was a beautiful deep blue metallic called "62 Blue." This is the green version of that.
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I've got a line on a closet queen B-Quad: played maybe 8 times since new by the owner. For those of you who have one—or had one—is this worth pursuing? I know it's something of a unicorn but I've also been told that (weirdly) there's no truss rod in the instrument and that the piezo pickup system and electronics are fragile. Advice, folks?
 
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jmlee said:
I've got a line on a closet queen B-Quad: played maybe 8 times since new by the owner. For those of you who have one—or had one—is this worth pursuing? I know it's something of a unicorn but I've also been told that (weirdly) there's no truss rod in the instrument and that the piezo pickup system and electronics are fragile. Advice, folks?
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Without more info... it’s tough to help

Price... color..number of strings etc.

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Upside.
They’re considered by many to be one of the finest semi-botique basses ever built
It’s a cool concept... fun to play


Downside
It says Peavey on the headstock
Electronics - the PC board was never available as parts... the bridge wires are fragile
That lower horn digs into your leg
Many had Christmas candy colors

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I’ve owned a few... they were all fun as heck...
I’d never bar gig one.
That bass prompted me to buy carbon fiber (I no longer own the Quads)
 
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bigtone23 said:
I used to have a Generation that was a beautiful deep blue metallic called "62 Blue." This is the green version of that.
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These two are "62 Custom Blue" I believe it was one of the color choices for the 1962 Chevy Corvette.
It doesn't look like it but these two are the same color when sitting next to each other in a room, just different light on different days in these pics.
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