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 go looking at other Peaveys now. Maybe even a 4 string Cirrus too....

Edited 22 hours ago by RogerDodger

[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.

[tauzero]

12 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

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.

 

I'm sure that the original NTB 4 BXP, with the scooped lower horn, was 34" scale. I remember looking at the specs at the time and noticing the difference in scale length (something that stuck in my head). There's also a Talkbass thread (that I can't link to) with a couple of people who own scoop-fronted Grind BXP 4s which are 34".

[kodiakblair]

6 hours ago, tauzero said:

There's also a Talkbass thread (that I can't link to) with a couple of people who own scoop-fronted Grind BXP 4s which are 34".

A lot gets said on TalkBS, folk wearing Crocs cause laces are too taxing yet convinced they can handle a tape 😁

 

Anyway. This my original NTB Grind out of the Inyen Vina factory in Vietnam. First model to have the scoop.

 

 

Close up of 12th. As you can see it's technically 34" 10/16ths not the full fat 35".

 

 

Has me wondering now if my US Cirrus is semi-skimmed too 😳