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Why are old Peaveys so cheap?

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Templar said:
What is it about this topic? Draws 'em in like flies, from far-flung places where actual hands-on experience is..."limited" at best. Fascinating.
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maturenesa recently bought a Palaedium that needed a truss rod adjustment. He started a thread complaining about that (looks like that thread has been deleted). Several people piped in and told him to take it to a shop and get a decent setup. For some reason, that seems to have put a chip on his shoulder. Yet though he doesn't understand the basic mechanics of setting up a guitar, he feels qualified to lecture on what "quality" neck through construction is. :)
 
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I really expected this thread to go wrong from the beginning, but it's pretty clear that Peavey suffers from a low resale value due to a small percentage of loud, ignorant people boldly repeating things they heard or outright making things up because they dislike the shape or the logo or the initial price point of Peavey equipment.
 
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smcd said:
maturenesa recently bought a Palaedium that needed a truss rod adjustment. He started a thread complaining about that (looks like that thread has been deleted). Several people piped in and told him to take it to a shop and get a decent setup. For some reason, that seems to have put a chip on his shoulder. Yet though he doesn't understand the basic mechanics of setting up a guitar, he feels qualified to lecture on what "quality" neck through construction is. :)
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Totally false. I dont own any Peavey bass, just tried them. I own two custom neck though basses and i set up my basses since 1991. Go and talk with any builder about neck through construction... You dont know anything about building a bass and is just funny how you make statements like "Peavey construction quality is better than any Fender"
 
#553
coyote1 said:
Fodera opts to have their 4 string neck thru be the same width.
Peavey does not.

'Cheap'?? Well, yeah.... all the inexpensive neck-thrus (Washburn, Cort, etc) seem to have one neck-thru body width for all their instruments while Fodera, Ken Smith and the rest of the high-end makers have different widths for different necks.

It makes sense. One neck sandwich making machine, then CNC down to whatever width you need while not having to change the 'wings' or any other component of the build. It's how the customer can spend $500 instead of $4000.
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Ok, i agree. But if you (or this peavey guys) are saying a Peavey Sarzo is a high end bass and the neck through is constructed like a inexpensive NT bass... is not a high end neck through. Thats what im saying...
 
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Thundar said:
and by the way...that Sarzo on the previous page is amazing!
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If you are referring to my red one, THANK YOU !

That is one of my favorite pictures of it, here is a detail shot of the bone nut I had installed.
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#555
That's a good way to look at it. When you compare a bass that you can buy for a few hundred to bass you'd be paying thousand for it's a case of making the cheaper bass the recipient of a cloaked compliment.

I had a Cirrus similar to the one in your avatar. I kept my plain jane walnut/ bubinga because I preferred it's bare neck. Both were beautiful but the custom Cirrus was a work of art.


mb94952 said:
You KNOW Peaveys are good when a guy is comparing their "weaknesses" to a Fodera.
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maturanesa said:
Totally false. I dont own any Peavey bass, just tried them. I own two custom neck though basses and i set up my basses since 1991. Go and talk with any builder about neck through construction... You dont know anything about building a bass and is just funny how you make statements like "Peavey construction quality is better than any Fender"
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Don't try to change the subject. You posted the thread, and what you're saying now doesn't match your own words.
 
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BawanaRik said:
That's a good way to look at it. When you compare a bass that you can buy for a few hundred to bass you'd be paying thousand for it's a case of making the cheaper bass the recipient of a cloaked compliment.
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Not sure that's true. The bass you buy for a few hundred can be exactly what you want in an instrument. It might sound awesome, feel completely comfortable, be very playable, and look great, and therefore you need not cloak the compliment.

All that is independent of whether the body portion of the thru neck has the same width as the rest of the neck... and indeed, independent of how much you spent on the instrument. The difference being that if you see a $4000 bass, you expect it to be awesome - while if awesome happens with a $300 bass, it's a pleasant revelation.
 
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