kodiakblair

8 hours ago, cetera said:

Bass shops in general bore me as I have a better selection! lol! 🤣

Had that same problem and I only owned 72 basses 😀

My advice is get another 3 basses, any will do, just to hit that magic 100.

Goal reached,  start selling the guitars and replace each one with a bass 👍

22 hours ago, orangepeelneil said:

I don't own a router

Do you own or have access to a drill ?

Get a sanding drum, insert it into the pickup cavity and mark where it clears the body. Take a sharp knife and trim away the sandpaper above that mark.

Fit the mounting rings and start sanding away at the cavities. The mounting rings will keep you within the working area while the exposed drum won't damage the chrome when you move along it .

Wear a mask 

I mind that one in Aberdeen, bought for £300 then listed next day for £1300  🤣

17 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:

@LamBass...Your English is fine... and so is the bass!

I agree on both counts 🙂

Owned one of the early models with the 42mm P-bass neck.

Selling mine was a mistake and the regrets soon stacked up.

1) I still miss it.

2) Sunderland Trading had a wee problem with the factory and all the later models got jazz bass necks. Little chance getting another 🤬

3) Sold it too cheap and the buyer turned out to be a complete tosser, the RPBXN was a great bass; far better than he deserved.

We've both been on the go the same length of time, give or take a few months.

Sadly, I've more wrinkles 😀

Might not be a great idea to post this but here's my pal Rick with his YOB bass 🤣

23 minutes ago, Beer of the Bass said:

I'm wondering if there's a little nod to John Fahey in the choice of title.

Has to be 🙂

4 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

The man behind Wish basses! What a find @kodiakblair

He has plenty of books out but that is the only one I've read, in two minds about the title of this one 😄

1 hour ago, pete.young said:

The definition for bluegrass is pretty narrow.

With good reason.

On 03/05/2024 at 06:57, DaleASmith said:

can I hijack this a little and ask for your opinion on Retrovibe basses?

I'll echo what folk are saying about David and his basses; it's all true he really is a gent and the basses are great 😀

My first Retrovibes were a white Evo and a red Zygote, that was in 2014.  A 5 string Vantage soon followed then it was an RV-4, next a Super - P came my way. All came nicely set up , looked great and were fun to play. 

As to the man himself, he's a gem 🙂 When I was hunting for certain Vintage bass, David spotted one and passed on the link. Once a Retrovibe beanie turned up unannounced, simply because David had ordered a batch/ knew I'm bald as a coot and that Scottish weather is 'changeable' 😄 The Super-P arrived with a series/parallel/tap mini switch, those weren't spec but our man knew I played T-40's and thought I'd appreciate the option 😎

4 hours ago, mrbacco said:

I would like to have the full power of the 4 in series if you know what I mean?

Know exactly what you mean.

Baby bass with a Warman Drivetrain. If your green quad coil is the one from Amazon, 17.8K DCR and 8.25H, the Drivetrain is near 2X; 28k DCR with alleged 20 H. One thing though; should you be looking for 'Mudbucker', neither will get you there 😒  Stick it up by the neck , you'd have mud 😎 Sadly not in roughly the P-bass position, I learned that after installing a 29.9k hum cancelling 51 footprint in my slab body.

On 26/04/2024 at 09:20, mrbacco said:

no idea where it comes from. I bought it on an auction from a charity shop, loooong time ago.

It's a Peavey neck, T-40 to be precise 🙂

Been broken then repaired but seeing as it was drilled to accept the Schaller tuning pegs, it's a sound repair 👍

Timely talk of Schaller tuning pegs, was hunting through boxes over the weekend and found 3 complete sets 😄 

If you decide to skip plugging holes and drilling new ones, drop me a line.

6 hours ago, Cheeto726 said:

I really like mine

Then the matter is closed 🙂

@Chienmortbb

G4M have changed hardware, those mono saddles are not the same as shown on the website or on mine.

They're actually easier to string up and adjust 😎 No poking ball ends down into the gubbins when fitting strings, you just hook the ball end in place/pull straight up to the tuning peg/snip the length then wrap and tune up 🙂

To set intonation you slacken this grub screw then manually slide the saddle back/forth, tighten again when set.

To set the string height you first slacken this grub screw.

Then its a case of using the top 2 grub screws as per normal.

If the block bottoms out yet the action is too high, you whip the block out.

Place it on a flat file.

And take a bit off the bottom. Doesn't matter if you get a bit fierce, the 2 vertical screws will still raise the block while the horizontal one locks it in place 👍

Added bonus with these is you can shave the sides too, that gives you some string spacing movement; I'll have a photo from doing that if it's required.

3 minutes ago, itu said:

Weren't there also the G-bass (maybe in the picture?), and Brian Bromberg bass? What was their story?

G-bass is to the right of my 5 string Grind.

Basically they were Peavey's attempt to score sales away from G&L's L-1000.  No Modulus connection for the G/G-V basses. My mate Ronnie was still working for Peavey then, necks were under-sized at the factory then shipped to Bell & Carlson for a carbon wrap. They had Gotoh bridges and Gotoh copy tuning pegs. Single pickup was an earlier VFL design used on the 2nd gen Forum, with a Cirrus preamp minus the blend pot. G-V was a Cirrus with bolt on carbon wrapped neck.

B-Quad was the Bromberg bass. I sometimes see "bring back the B-Quad" posts on Peavey threads. Won't happen, the B-Quad is Bromberg's design and he's been quite happy having Carvin/Kiesel build them the last 15 years.  B-Quads, 4 & 5 strings, did have Modulus necks. Complicated circuit on them too. Stereo/mono output, piezo/active VFL pickups. 2 band EQ for the VFLs, tone pot for the piezo. Bridge has piezo saddles, each saddle had it's own level trimpot and could be panned left or right in stereo mode. 

Peavey put out loads of models, hitting almost every letter of the alphabet; often think they did too many models and that's one reason why they get passed over. 

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

preferred the neck on the Grind (that saved a lot of money).

Nice when things turn out like that 😃

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

I had the passive version, the Grind BXP, They were the Gen 1 models with a scooped out area on the front of the lower horn.

Actually more like 3rd gen models 😮 

1st Gen Grinds were active US built basses with bolt on necks. 4 string models were 34" scale length PJs while 5 strings were 35" scale JJ. A year later they were joined by bolt on BXP versions. The red 5 string is my US Grind, Black PJ my BXP. No of them were particularly good sellers so they were quickly replaced by the BXP neck through; built by InYen Vina over in Vietnam.

4 hours ago, Dood said:

I picked up a (specifically) Indonesian made BXP from, hmm, 2000's?

Appeared on the market 2004, built by Samick.

I wasn't super impressed by the bubinga veneer, far right; mainly it was the gloss finish to neck and body.

I'd also been spoiled by the Bubinga bolt on neck model, the black teal, tiger eye custom and the wenge/walnut 😃

11 hours ago, Obrienp said:

Hadn’t heard of that one before but it’s probably happened to me without me realising. New set of D’Addarios too.

Your new D'Addarios will be fine 🙂

There's not much to a twist, generally happens if you wind strings round the tuner post but the ball end is fixed in place; winding action can cause a wee twist along the length. You just slacken off the string and start again 👍

Pearloid won out in the end  🙂

On first plugging in all I seemed to get was a horrible nasally tone, switched to tapes hoping it would help; it didn't 🤬 

If I had hair it would have been in my hands, luckily tugging on the beard is painful so I looked at settings instead 😄 First thing was set the Bass/Treble on the Artec preamp to detent and turn the gain trimpot down; this improved things. At the amp I went with a fair bit of bass boost highs and mids were also boosted but to a lesser degree. A wee sweeten with the Artec pre and all was well 👍

Here it is next to this afternoon's creation, the red Telecaster jazz bass 😎

Sharp eyes will spot a different neck. The 51 shaped one was a much better fit on the red body so the piezo got a spare PB-50 neck, a reshape is on the cards soon 👍

On 07/04/2024 at 23:33, Obrienp said:

True but I think the pickup alignment is pretty accurate under the G string.

Aye, you're right; it's well within the magnetic field.

Could be the G got twisted when stringing up, fairly common mishap. 

1 hour ago, Nigel Sleaford said:

opinions on the P bass variants which came before T40?

There wasn't any.

T-40 was the first bass Peavey released, it was followed by the T-45 then the T-20.

T-20 lasted about 2 years before it body reshape and rebranded as the Fury.

T-20/ & 1st gen Fury I found to be a decent bass, the 20 had a really wide flat fretboard that was skinny front to back 🙂 Both of them had the Ferrite single coil, ugly as sin but sounds sweet; I've one in a 51 P-bass copy 👍

T-45, I never got on with mine. Another poorly thought out tone circuit IMHO, middle pot did the single coil/humbucker but made the single coil bright. Roll the other tone pot back to take the brightness down a notch and the output drops 🙁

Another thing I remember, sold the 20 & 45 to a lad in Sweden, Peavey were using the shallow flat fretwire I heard Gibson owners complain about.  Don't imagine there were too many fret dress sessions before they needed replacing.

Sold my 5 string Zephyr end of August for £150, now I know why it went so fast 🤣

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

m not entirely sure whether what I had was a Zephyr 5 or a C5, or whether they're one and the same.

One and the same 🙂.

@SteveXFR

Zephyr 5 and the Patriot were my favourite Peaveys 🙂

Pity I sold both but they went to good homes so no regrets.