Thanks for the info, I’m going by what I found in the hondo research. Just repeating the info I found. How much truth there is to it I can’t be sure. I’m still learning and digging. Thanks again for the info. I’ll check it out.
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Vintage cheap basses
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Peavey basses are great bang for your buck.
The Peavey T-40 is a great mimic too..it can sound like any other bass with its immense selection of tone settings. Ive never heard another bass sound so close to a Rickenbacker 4001-4003 as a T-40 for example or a Precision or a Music Man etc etc etc. I love mine but yes they can be heavy and reputed for that very thing as well. One of the heaviest basses made...but that tone.
My 1979 Peavey T-40 isnt the heaviest ive seen reported here on TB...10.8 lbs
Another great bass is the Peavey Dyna Bass. Mine is a 1991 second model and is a great bass for an inexpensive 5'ver and still classed as a vintage at around 30 years old..give or take a couple years loll
As long as the bass has a body made out of wood I guess +$100 is fine if you really want it.
We saw a lot of these basses come into the shop for mods, which is totally fine.
I wouldn't pay anyone to work on these, I'd see them as an opportunity to collect tools you don't own and educate yourself.
We saw a lot of these basses come into the shop for mods, which is totally fine.
I wouldn't pay anyone to work on these, I'd see them as an opportunity to collect tools you don't own and educate yourself.
Yes, they can; and they have. But this was not addressed in your original post. You're expanding the playing field.
Sure, only certain ones get mods for me. Other than that I get them set up for kids. These make awesome learning basses and kids don’t have to worry about beating them up.
Lolz, watch someone start a trend installing a pair of T40 pickups into a Mockingbird body to kick up a new trend.
Maybe rewind them with unobtainium magnets + series/parallel/single switching + phase switch.
But Danelectros are not made of wood. At least the tops and backs are not. But they can be made into gig-able instruments nonetheless.
We had an actual junk bucket of trades or used gear come in that got left with us.
That's how I learned to use crowning tools, nut filing, body+ neck fitting.
My boss at the time was a jeweler and would make use all Fat Fawg together a bass before he let us use power tools.
Steaming off fretboards and acoustic repairs is where I stopped, too much labor vs willing customers to do the job right.
Even that Wikipedia entry focuses on Ibanez as coming from the Fujigen factory, though some models are widely reported to have come from the Matsumoku factory. The Roadster and Musician basses, for example.
I just missed out on an Aria Pro II Strat (a "Bobcat"); the seller came back a week after my offer and finally accepted it, but I'd already decided to spend my mad money for the month on something else.
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Yes, I'm a big fan of 60's (cheap at the time) basses. Love my '65 Teisco Del Rey - it's a serious instrument that plays and sounds great - not a toy. I've gigged and recorded it. It's short-scale and it is light but it's as long as a Jazz bass and balances well - what's not to like? I've built my own basses using the Del Rey as inspiration and others taking cues from (mostly MIJ) 60's bass design. You can find many of my build threads over in Luthiers Corner if interested.
Lower bass has a mid-60's mahogany Del Rey body - top one I made of basswood. Necks are from Epi Goth T-birds.
Just completed resurrecting this Decca body/Suzuki Violin Mft neck from the 60's.
Just completed resurrecting this Decca body/Suzuki Violin Mft neck from the 60's.
I bought a 1963 jazz for $100. Does that count?
Gloat, gloat...
Gloat, gloat...
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Thanks! I find the plethora of second/third tier design from that era (60's) very inspirational. Many were riffing off of major producers designs (Fender, Gibson etc) but the diversity of their 'take' on modern electric guitars/basses was what makes them so cool/unique.It's all good. There has been a rise in popularity for short scales and if I had to go there, I'd pick the Fender over most of the other brands of basses made during that era, especially the imports, short or long scale.
My only problem with vintage cheapos are they're not so cheap anymore. But I love basses with personality, and the vintage cheapos have plenty of that.
