Peavey basses

[kodiakblair]

6 hours ago, Dood said:

@kodiakblair was it you who put me on to Gillian and her collection? 

Aye that was me 🙂

 

As for the Peavey BXP models from Samick Indonesia, cracking basses. I still have fond memories of an Indo Darkwood 5'er 👍

[RogerDodger]

I bought a Cirrus 5 (Indonesia) about 6 months or so ago as I thought it might be handy to deal with the drop D songs without de-tuning and I love it. Really high quality. I definately gonlooking at other Peaveys now. Maybe even a 4 string Cirrus too....

[kodiakblair]

1 hour ago, RogerDodger said:

Maybe even a 4 string Cirrus too....

I still have an Indo 4 string Cirrus.

 

Strung it with tapes to have a slightly different sound from my US Cirrus. Odd wee beastie. Takes a silly low action, 1.5 on G - 1.75 on E; never quite reached that on any other. Could be the ABM bridge used on the US models wasn't designed for stupid low 😀 It's also a 34" scale length not a 35".

 

There's a distinct Anti-BXP mindset with the TalkBass Peavey owners. Having owned many BXP/US I see that mindset as TalkBS at it's finest 🤣

[tauzero]

53 minutes ago, kodiakblair said:

I still have an Indo 4 string Cirrus.

 

Strung it with tapes to have a slightly different sound from my US Cirrus. Odd wee beastie. Takes a silly low action, 1.5 on G - 1.75 on E; never quite reached that on any other. Could be the ABM bridge used on the US models wasn't designed for stupid low 😀 It's also a 34" scale length not a 35".

 

There's a distinct Anti-BXP mindset with the TalkBass Peavey owners. Having owned many BXP/US I see that mindset as TalkBS at it's finest 🤣

 

I think that 4-string NT Peaveys are generally 34" while 5 and 6-strings are 35", although the predecessor to the Cirrus, the Zephyr (or C5) had a 34" 5-string neck.

[kodiakblair]

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I think that 4-string NT Peaveys are generally 34" while 5 and 6-strings are 35", although the predecessor to the Cirrus, the Zephyr (or C5) had a 34" 5-string neck.

The bolt on Grinds were 34" for the 4 strings, 35" scale for 5 strings. 18 months later when the Grind was revamped as a neck-through bass, the 4, 5 & 6 string models all were 35" scale length. Peavey being Peavey both versions of the TL-5, another neck through model, basses were 34" scale length. Of the US production Cirrus, they again were all 35" scale except for, Peavey being Peavey, The 2007 bolt-on Cirrus went 34" for 4 string/35" for 5 string 😆

 

You're right about Zepher/C-5 being 34" scale length but dead wrong regarding it's timing. Cirrus sales went live Q1 of 1997, Zephyr/C-series didn't arrive until 1999.