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@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.

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.

Nice when things turn out like that 😃 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.

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 😃

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 👍

Aye, you're right; it's well within the magnetic field. Could be the G got twisted when stringing up, fairly common mishap.

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 🤣

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.

Even though, by your own admission, the scratchplate forced you to fudge the pickup position 😃

Same story for the C-Series/Zephyr. At least the International can be called that, C-Series mostly get wrongly listed as 'Grinds' 🙂 Ken likely didn't think a peghead name was necessary given the limited European market and the short space of time they were available.

Sure is. That looks a damn sight better than my flame top. p.s. While commonly known as Peavey International, it's Sunday title is Peavey Dynabass International Series.

Happy to enlighten you. I own/owned a lot of Peavey basses, for a time there was 68 of them. With that many it's hard to maintain any aura of mystique for a particular model; it either works for you, can be made to work or left ignored as you move on the next one. First T-40 came mostly due to 'internet hype', that doesn't last long. It was through the T-60 Mafia that I discovered the designer of the T-Series, Chip Todd, held similar views as myself regards the tone circuit. Chip would snip the red wire and leave his pickups in humbucker mode, that worked for me 🙂 Another one turned up local for £300, it went humbuckers/tapes; one after that got active EQ 🙂 Forth got a semi permanent mod, I blame my pal Ronnie 😁 He had a varied collection of Peavey basses, due to his position as chief mech engineer for Peavey's US factories. Ronnie had a 5 string T-40 so when a beat to hell T-40, going for peanuts, went up for sale in Glenrothes; I had the makings for mine. Only T-40 I left intact was the one Dave Swift sold through The Gallery. My T-40 interest had waned by then but I got it for a song so why not 👍