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U.S. Peavey Club

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A-Step-Towards said:
I use to flip instruments for fun i got excitement winning a bass on ebay , working on it , playing it etc. Then flip it, if a young kid came i am 20 myself so if a kid like 12 or 13 came i would sell it to him at the price i paid. Probably made of 1,000$ in a year but it got old and took to much time away from playing.


Anyways , this is a bad pic but can anyone guess the year black label foundation i think, i am going to hopefully pick it up for 50$ its hard to lose.

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This looks to be about a 94 Foundation. If it has the VFL pickups(look like double jazz) then it is '94 or later. If it has the no-label Superferrite sized pickups the headstock shape indicates it would have to be a '93. Either way, these are great basses. I have 2 post'94s and they are my favorite players. Probably more people prefer the SF's, but I love the later models. Both of mine were around $125 each.
 
#1,842
BassicJohn said:
Some had a nut width of 1 3/4 inches and others were 1 1/2 inches, but my avatar and all the others that I have seen were 34 inch scale. They may have made a short scale version - Tim would likely know for sure.
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I'm pretty sure Peavey didn't make any short-scale basses in the eighties. Both of my Patriots are 34 in scale just like my Foundations, Forum, and Unity.
 
#1,843
BassicJohn said:
Some had a nut width of 1 3/4 inches and others were 1 1/2 inches, but my avatar and all the others that I have seen were 34 inch scale. They may have made a short scale version - Tim would likely know for sure.
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The way to tell your width is by flipping it over and seeing the tuners..

I do not remember any short scale (mustang length) basses... they did this with guitars (T-15 etc)

Tim
 
#1,857
ok i finally have the house to myself for a while!
so i put my 3 guitar stand back together, and got a couple of pix finally.

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can still see the bits of red that goop i used to remove the finish didn't take off. i was so disappointed by the totally BLAH woodgrain, that this bass ended up sitting in my closet for almost 10 years.

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i have no idea what i am going to do with it now. it definitely needs knobs. i usually leave the tone & bridge wide open, and adjust tone by backing off on the neck pickup. all neck just sounds too muddy to me. if you look closely around the G between 16 and 18 you can see the one chunk i lost when i pulled the frets. not bad considering i did it with a razor knife and a pair of toenail clippers :)

i am seriously considering filling the lines with maple veneer and sealing the fingerboard. and switching to grounds or tapes. i really don't care for flats, but then again, the fenders are the only ones i ever tried ... the DR's buzz all over on this thing. i was expecting more of a elixir feel i guess - DR's are way more ridged and grabby than i expected. i can see these things chewing my fingerboard to pieces in a short time.

i've been playing the ibanez pretty much non stop since i got it last weekend ... i picked up the peavey, and the spacing felt tiny and the neck felt huge.
 

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