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U.S. Peavey Club
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It's not unusual to have to shim the necks on these to obtain low action without bottoming the saddles.
I'm no expert, but what is printed on the back of the headstock? Does it say "Handcrafted In China"? Too fuzzy for me to make out.
It's an ultra cheap Peavey Rockmaster. Think they sold for $120 when new. Couple of rungs below the Indonesian Milestones.
I am not thinking its a US model. Perhaps someone else has seen it before.
I'd be very interested to hear what your luthier had to say. Where would you even find a Peavey neck to begin with?
Yeah there is a GV that popped up on REVERB, actually two but one has a filter based preamp in it and different pups, listed for 799.00. I was thinking of making an offer on it but it's that Sunburst and I'm just not feeling it.
Think I'm going to keep looking and waiting.
OK, yeah. Charcoal is what I was thinking. I like that a lot.
A few pallets of necks were among the lots auctioned off from plant 2. Trouble is knowing if they are any good.Some will be QC fails,others will be returns. Some will be remaining stock,but even then I'd advise caution.
Millennium necks will have been in storage bins 12 - 14 years, GV necks even longer at 18 years.
The saddles on mine are still bottomed out, so I'm curious to see what the tech did (heat the neck?) to address the issue.
I'm fully prepared to get a replacement neck if need be. The dang bass just sounds too good.
I might get roasted for this but, I'd be willing to test out an Indonesian neck on a US body if it works. I've also been toying around with the idea of putting a G neck on my Mill. Although, I'd like to see some pictures of such builds.
EDIT: There's an interview out there of Hartly mentioning that they had to put the graphite rods in the maple necks because they were so unstable. They also, starting doing quartersawn necks to help add stability and it's odd that they didn't put the tilt feature on this model. Not surprising considering that these have very thin necks.
I'm willing to lose an inch to ensure I have some longevity and I doubt I'll ever use the drop D tuner on mine. The fantasy in my mind likes to think there's a secret crate of stashed US Mill necks hiding in an office somewhere.
My question would be is the neck flat? Does the Truss Rod work? If both of those are yes it may simply need a shim which is pretty common and the reason Peavey used the Micro Tilt. Serves the same function in fact I would argue a shim would work better because you have a wider contact area between the neck and the body than you do with the point of a screw from a Micro tilt.
I believe it is the more figured necks that Peavey installed the rods in for stability. I think the standard Maple necks didn't need them. I could be mistaken though.
I'm willing to lose an inch to ensure I have some longevity and I doubt I'll ever use the drop D tuner on mine. The fantasy in my mind likes to think there's a secret crate of stashed US Mill necks hiding in an office somewhere.
It's not so much the losing of the inch that matters. It will through off the intonation of the bass because the frets will be in the wrong position relative to the scale length.
You might find you'll need to move the bridge to compensate.
Birdseye is much softer than standard maple.
