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There was no such thing. The Model One was intended to be a drop-in replacement for EB models but that was all. Clue is given in the first sentence. The name Sentell gave to their version makes no bones about it's purpose 😃

Blanking grommets, cheap and reversible 👍

Speak to Brian Pillans for a one, contact him through his eBay store 'earlpilanz' https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz

Just back from a fantastic Half Man Half Biscuit gig in Edinburgh 🙂 No endless guitar w*nk, no drum solos just a great job done by Neil, Nigel and the 2 Karls; bit awkward typing that since one spells his name with a C 😃

Had a bass I thought would interest Steve. The man wasted no time in confirming, yes he was interested but concerned about couriers. Once I allayed the courier concern with promises of bomb-proof packing and multiple labels, it was just a case of getting the Tune to Romford 🙂 Steve was an absolute pleasure to deal with , our wee bit business conducted in a relaxed manner from start to finish. Thank again Steve, you're a Top Man 👍

I've saw Kyle from The View do that 😄 Pre T in the Park warm up gig, him and a boy in the crowd had a wee set to during the show then had a rematch outside after the gig ended 🤣

@Rayman I was around the same time but remember the late 70's/ early 80's when Japanese companies changed track, Americans were quaking in their boots. The toy trade is a good example of the West importing crap. While our shops were full of basic fake Action Man things, Japanese kids had really cool robots.

How much of that was down to distributors only ordering instruments which cost buttons to build ?

Or tape them to the end of your strap 👍

@crazycloud It wasn't worth doing for me. Only did it because I'd a few of them and the body/neck was rough as get out on one. There was the 5 string, another got active EQ; 3rd had humbucker red wires snipped but I left the 4th stock. Rough as the neck was I got lucky, took a hefty 5 string set of La Bella Jamerson's for 18 months without issue 👍 Don't recall much drop out though I never really played it much, since you're going with a tighter spacing you'll be sound 🙂

Hardly, quite a few tread that path before me 😀 The T-series designer, Chip Todd, built one years after he'd left Peavey. It must have wound it's way to Meridian as a good friend of mine played it, said it was awful 😁 Along with being a fine bass player ,Ronnie was chief engineer of Peavey's mechanical dept. Since he'd easy access to QC fails and stuff smuggled out the door, he decided he'd have a go at a 5 string 40; I followed Ronnie's advice. His method was keep the bridge base plate but scrap the saddles, photo shows just how little coverage 5 strings get with blades. Sweet bass. My bass had toasters, same width of blades just hidden under plastic so doesn't look as tight. Another convert I know went with a different bridge, Welsh Tim used a Kahler👍

Aye, slapping a T-40 is best done unplugged 🙂 Thing is I was being serious, what does a T-40 sound like ? I've owned a few and through my Peavey collection have spoke with 100s of Peavey owners, none of us could give a definitive description of 'T-40 Tone'. That's a major failing for a "Iconic/Highly Regarded/Sought After/Revered/Classic" 😄 Plenty of words about the tone circuit and the basses it's supposed to (but really doesn't) copy, not a peep about having a signature tone of it's own. Luke Matsumoku were using CNC a few years before Peavey, Hartley's "First in the World ! " was BS self promotion. While not groundbreaking, Hartley's problem solving skills were impressive. Fender puts pressure on music shops selling Peavey amps, to sell Fender guitars they must also sell their amps. Hartley decides to counter by giving stores Peavey guitars to sell alongside his amps. He's painfully aware neither his workforce nor local labour pool is up to the task of guitar building. Solution, he gets machines in. Spray shop is inexperienced. Sod it, we'll only do natural matt until they get experience. There's other examples but you get the gist 👍

Peavey may have applied for a patent but it wasn't an original idea, my 1968 Wilson Sapphire has a 'bi-laminate' neck. As the years have progressed it also turned out not such a hot idea. Split glue seams are not uncommon, micro tilt puts pressure directly on the glue seam, TR arches up towards fretboard; again directly on the glue seam. Their bi-laminate also wasn't that stable, "Warped Necks" in the US does good business straightening old Peavey necks. The 'spin-a-split' tone pot was another recycled idea, Dan Armstrong had used and discarded it back in 71 or 72. The 'chainsaw' case started life as a Peavey product though I doubt they intended the fur to fall off so easily nor the foam to degrade into sticky goo but that's what often happened. A nice touch was a labelled scratchplate overlay film, trouble was when left too long or in sunshine it bonded to the scratchplate. Stapling a pie tin inside the control cavity for shielding wasn't such a great idea 😄

It's a chunky unit. 6lbs of metal on a T-40, bridge accounts for 1/5th. No 5 string version, Peavey didn't venture into 5 strings until after they'd scrapped the T-40.

How does a T-40 sound exactly ?

On the T-40 it was 3/4" closer the bridge than on a Stingray. Passive tone pot vs Stingray active EQ is another thing entirely 👍

Many make that connection but delve no deeper than the T-40/Vallory advert. Journey got a backline/PA deal from Peavey, part of the deal was Ross play a T-40. Apart from the live album made on that tour, no Journey tracks feature a T-40. I've owned a few, mainly for masochistic reasons since TBH I don't think they play or sound that great 😄 The 'secret sounds' thing is mostly bollocks, suggestion more than substance. You'll likely need to make new pickups too, the blades don't lend themselves to wider string spacing. From memory the steel used was 63mm long. I kept the original neck for my 5 string conversion, not a wide neck to begin with. Think I got 15.6mm

So you feel like a can of Gammon ? I suggested the can as a substitute drawing aid for those not owning a French curve set. Thread is concerned with how you reshape a peghead; the why has no relevance .

Last time I bought any vinyl was the late 80s. Of the 10 CDs purchased this century, 6 are still in the wrapper. Can't stand the radio, the drivel spoken by presenters drives me up the wall. No streaming services either. I've an MP3 folder in the PC and a duplicate flash drive in the car, those 998 files are more than enough for the rare times I listen to music now.

It is with me, apart from from my headless slab body, most of my builds get the 51/Telecaster peghead 🙂

@Beedster 6 maybe 7 years back reshaping the Harley Benton PB-50 peghead was a popular thing. I'd done a few and when the peghead topic popped up would send those interested BC members templates. The original templates I knocked up were like this, for routers, a bit OTT since I learned none of the BC folk had routers 😀 A quick rethink saw the printed templates stiffened with vinyl floor tiles from the £1 shop, I used vinyl in my "Reshaping Peghead" thread. Vinyl is much easier to trace around. Prep work is a doddle, stick printed PDF to tile, score and snap straight lines using a ruler and craft knife. Curves can be cut freehand or you could use a 'French Curve' set. Don't fancy freehand but no French Curve set ... handy alternatives. An aerosol can is great for the tighter curves, while the large Ye Olde Oak Gammon Ham tin is perfect for the longer curves.

You don't move the actual unit, just the string height blocks. There's not a great deal of sideway room in the slot, flat file to the block's edge solves that. It's the method I used on my T-40 5 string conversion. Whole process takes about 30 minutes, that's including removing material from the bottom for lower action.

Bridge saddle blocks can moved on earlier models with mono saddles. Later models shipped with Sung IL BB285 bridges, spacing on those is fixed at 18mm.

Peavey Grind ticks all your boxes. Control cavity on the back has ample space should you wish active EQ, pickup cavities accept EMG 45s. Probably pick one up for £250 tops.