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Mate wants to see The Hu in Glasgow end of this month. I don't fancy it but he rode shotgun on last week's trip for NOFX in Leeds so only fair I make an effort.

Dave. Bent Bit of Tin, it's shorthand for the Fender style bridges 👍

So far. Wilkinson BBOT bridges, fitted them for myself and others; no problems / decent bit of kit. Wilkinson swivel 2 saddle bridge, bloody marvellous bit of kit 🙂 Tuners. Mini Gotoh type, 7 years on the 5 string, again no problems. Careful thought needed for the vintage type, mounting plate is big; tight fit on a 51 P-bass peghead but 5 years hassle free service. Pickups. No complaints regarding the alnico 5 jazz singles. 51 style single was a fantastic pickup, Duncan SCPB-1 but with more output; always keep an eye out for them in the for sale ads. Far as 'overrated' goes, I've bits and pieces from brand name folks that's definitely overrated and overpriced but the Wilkinson IMO is decent enough gear which serves it's intended purpose.

Some place in this bloody tip of a house is a compass, if I could find it you'd know what way the magnets should be in no time 🤬

I dug a set of JBXN out the drawer last night, the magnets meet in the middle. Another thing was the polarity is reversed, neck and bridge will snap together so watch your fingers 😁 I wonder if you might have the split coil the same polarity as the single coil and that's causing the phase issue.

Afraid it matters. Good news is it's easy fixed 🙂 Just look at the magnet, there should be signs of glue or sticky label. Either match the sticky label or put it on glue face down 👍

Nae good to me, I was after mud 👍

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 .